Understand the organization of the class, text and website

syllabus, assignments, requirements and due dates

Understand the concept and be able to define 

globalization, localization

geography, space, spatial perspective

how humans create places, regions, and continents

place, landscapes, landform, area, region, functional region, formal region, nodes, flows

distance, friction of distance, direction

frame of reference

absolute and relative location

latitude, longitude, meridian, Prime Meridian, time zones, International Date Line

poles, tropics, Arctic and Antarctic circles

regional geographic approach, systematic geographic approach

geographic subfields

maps, projections, scale

Geographic Information Systems, Global Positioning Systems, Remote Sensing