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    This document outlines the goals for a geography class focusing on California. It will take a systematic, regional, and spatial perspective to study California's diverse landscape. The systematic perspective will analyze social, economic, political, and environmental processes and how they interact. The regional perspective will focus on studying California as a place with unique characteristics related to its culture, economy, and environment. The spatial perspective will examine how phenomena in California relate to each other in particular places and how different factors come together to shape the state's cultural landscapes.

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    This document outlines the goals for a geography class focusing on California. It will take a systematic, regional, and spatial perspective to study California's diverse landscape. The systematic perspective will analyze social, economic, political, and environmental processes and how they interact. The regional perspective will focus on studying California as a place with unique characteristics related to its culture, economy, and environment. The spatial perspective will examine how phenomena in California relate to each other in particular places and how different factors come together to shape the state's cultural landscapes.

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    This document outlines the goals for a geography class focusing on California. It will take a systematic, regional, and spatial perspective to study California's diverse landscape. The systematic perspective will analyze social, economic, political, and environmental processes and how they interact. The regional perspective will focus on studying California as a place with unique characteristics related to its culture, economy, and environment. The spatial perspective will examine how phenomena in California relate to each other in particular places and how different factors come together to shape the state's cultural landscapes.

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    Duc Nguyen

    Prof. Alao
    Geo 351
    March 3, 2016
    Goals for Class
    What is geography? Geography is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands,
    the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of the Earth. But the Earth is too big, and to
    study all of its features will take years of research and development. That is why the
    exploration and examination of specific region or area like California is small but in fact, a
    huge contribution to the overall study of the geography of the Earth. In Geography 351, the
    features of California will be study through a systematic, regional, and spatial perspectives
    which reveal the diversities and complexities of this landscape.
    Systematic perspective is taking into account all of the behaviors of a system as a
    whole in the context of its environment. Through this perspective, one can studies of climate,
    landforms, economics, and culture among others. The systematic analysis of social,
    economic, political, and environmental processes operating in a place provides an deeper
    understanding of its distinctiveness or character. Research in this tradition since has shown
    that the temporal and spatial sequences of actions of individuals follow typical patterns in
    particular types of environments and that many of the distinctive characteristics of places
    result from an intersection of behavioral sequences constrained by spatial accessibility to the
    opportunities for interaction. Such systematic analysis is particularly central to regional and

    human geography, and it is a theme to which much geographic research continually returns.
    When such systematic analysis is applied to many different places, an understanding of
    geographic variability emerges. Of course, a full analysis of geographic variability must take
    account of processes that cross the boundaries of places, linking them to one another, and
    also of scale.
    Regional perspective focuses on areas of Earth space that have some degree of
    homogeneity. Regions may be basically physical, human or some combination of both and
    may vary in size from continents to small ecosystems. Through reginal perspective, one can
    study the specific unique characteristics of places related to their culture, economy,
    topography, climate, politics and environmental factors such as their different species
    of flora and fauna.
    Geography looks at the world from a spatial perspective or seeking to understand the
    changing spatial organization and material character of Earth's surface. One of the critical
    advantages of a spatial perspective is the attention it focuses on how phenomena are related
    to one another in particular places. One should thus learn not just to recognize and interpret
    patterns, but to assess the nature and significance of the relationships among phenomena that
    occur in the same place and to understand how tastes and values, political regulations, and
    economic constraints work together to create particular types of cultural landscapes.

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