在空间和生态环境中对人类文化和社会的研究长期以来一直是地理学的核心传统。如今，地理学家正在调查一系列社会经济，政治和文化模式与活动，在许多情况下，他们都使用地理技能和技术来解决本地和区域性问题。在这个集中的地方，您将通过文化，经济和政治地理的地理子领域来探索这种传统。文化地理学考察了世界上许多民族的特征，分布，运动，互动和景观。调查的核心主题包括宗教，语言，政治运动，种族和居住模式。经济地理集中于经济活动的分布和位置，尤其是诸如工业区位，世界贸易，运输和资源之类的主题。政治地理学研究政治活动和决策的空间范
The study of human culture and society in its spatial and ecological contexts has long represented a core tradition of geography. Today, geographers investigate an array of socioeconomic, political, and cultural patterns and activities, in many cases using geographic skills and techniques to solve local and regional problems. In this concentration, you will explore this tradition through the geographic subfields of cultural, economic, and political geography. Cultural geography examines the characteristics, distributions, movements, interactions, and landscapes of the world's many peoples. Core topics of investigation include religion, language, political movements, ethnicity, and settlement patterns. Economic geography concentrates on the distribution and location of economic activity, particularly topics like industrial location, world trade, transportation, and resources. Political geography studies the spatial dimensions of political activity and decision making, from global issues like geopolitics and the balance of power to local issues like municipal zoning and annexation. Human geography makes abundant use of geography's emerging technical tools, especially geographic information systems (GIS), as well as traditional skills in statistics.