This course is intended to both give you a broader understanding of the different regions of the world, and to introduce you to the tools that geographers use to make sense of the world. You will sharpen your analytical skills as both a thinker and a writer. This course is intended as both an introduction to geography for geography majors, and as a MAPS distribution course for other students.

Most importantly, this will course help U.S. Americans, and others, to have maps.....