Combines perspectives from two closely related fields, human geography and cultural anthropology, to focus specifically on the relationships between people and the environments in which they live. The course will be organized around four learning nodes ? people, places, flows, and maps ? that each include more specific learning objectives. We will study how people ? including culture, technology, settlement patterns, religion, and language ? have been affected by, and continue to affect in turn, the places that we live. We will also study the flows of people, money, cultures, information, and objects across space and time. In order to make sense of these global flows and spatial relationships, we will learn how to use and interpret maps.