GEOG 220The World Region and World Issues
- Faculty
- Environment
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1991–92
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1991–92 to 1991–92 (before that, 1963–64 to 1984–85 used the number for World Regional Geography); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
This course will discuss specific world regions, e.g., Japan, Switzerland, E. Europe, U.S.S.R., within a global context. It will also discuss world issues, including some of the following topics: the underdeveloped world, energy, the spread of arms and terrorism, environmental degradation, world trade, the flow of capital, and integrating geographical elements within the world region.
As printed in the 1991–92 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1991–92, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1991–92 1 calendar
This course will discuss specific world regions, e.g., Japan, Switzerland, E. Europe, U.S.S.R., within a global context. It will also discuss world issues, including some of the following topics: the underdeveloped world, energy, the spread of arms and terrorism, environmental degradation, world trade, the flow of capital, and integrating geographical elements within the world region.
Offered Winter · 2 class, 2 lab hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1985–86 to 1990–91 calendars.
1984–85 1 calendar
Another title: World Regional Geography, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Study in depth of selected areas of the world's climatic regions, emphasizing characteristic problems as well as their physical, cultural and economic interrelationships: resource use, population pressure, urban and rural land use, human impact on the earth.
1965–66 to 1983–84 14 calendars
Another title: World Regional Geography, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Study in depth of selected areas of the world's climatic regions, emphasizing characteristic problems as well as their physical, cultural and economic interrelationships. Utilization of natural resources, the effects of increasing population density, the occupance and utilization of urban and rural lands, and the effects of man’s tools, techniques and institutions on the earth's surface.
- 1965–66 PDF p. 169
- 1966–67 PDF p. 185
- 1967–68 PDF p. 218
- 1968–69 PDF p. 237
- 1969–70 PDF p. 220
- 1970–71 PDF p. 276
- 1976–77 PDF p. 274
- 1977–78 PDF p. 309
- 1978–79 PDF p. 302
- 1979–80 PDF p. 313
- 1980–81 PDF p. 326
- 1981–82* PDF p. 339
- 1982–83 PDF p. 319
- 1983–84 PDF p. 334
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
1963–64 to 1964–65 2 calendars
Another title: World Regional Geography, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
A survey of the major natural and political regions of the world with attention to areas of current interest in world affairs; the interrelationships of physical, economic, and cultural factors, and their implications for problems of economic growth.
2 lectures, 2 hours seminar.
Department of Geography