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4:  Human Geography 
Course Structure: Lectures: 2 / 
Labs: 1 
Credit Hours: 3 
Prerequisites: Physical Geography 
Objectives:  This course attempts to impart knowledge about the 
relationship between man and environment including the distribution of 

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HEC — RS&GIS Curricula 2005
 
 
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population, human settlement, resources and related human activities. 
Course Outline:
 
Scope and Status of human Geography, Basic concepts 
and theories including Environmental determinism, Possibilism, Probabilism 
and cognitive behaviorism, Population: Population distribution, density and 
growth. Population change including migration, Population composition and 
Structure, Human Activities: Primary, secondary and Tertiary (agriculture, 
mining, forestry animal husbandry, poultry, light and heavy industries, 
transport and trade and tourism) and their impacts on environment, Natural 
resources, distribution and utilization: Renewable and non-renewable 
resources e.g., Air, land, water, fauna and flora fossil fuel metallic and non-
metallic minerals, Energy generation and consumption, Human 
Settlements: Evolution and housing types, Urban and Rural contrast, Land 
Use/land cover Pattern e.g. Commercial, Industrial and Residential, Open 
and Green Spaces, Transport, Theories of urban structure e.g., Concentric 
Zone Theory, Multiple Nuclei Theory, Sector Theory, Rural Settlements, 
Dispersed, Nucleated and Ribbon Settlements, City-Size, Distribution, 
Rank-Size Rule, Primate Cities.  
 Lab Outline: Survey and data collection from rural and urban settlements, 
regarding land use/ land cover, population and demographic and housing 
characteristics, services and utilities. Slums and Social Area Analysis, 
Analysis of Settlements from Topographic Sheets, Analysis of Settlements 
as Central Places, Analysis of Settlements as Population Foci, Analysis of 
Urban Areas, Cartographic Techniques to analyze and present field data 
 Field Visits: To identify the use of natural resources, to study land use and 
land cover, to study the urban structure, mining area, national parks, 
industrial areas and various rural and urban settlement.