HUMAN-CENTRIC GEOGRAPHY

Paper Code: 
25GEO 144A
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Course Outcomes: 

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25GEO144a

Human-Centric Geography

CO14: Analyze paradigm shifts in geographic thought
CO15: Evaluate economic development, resource distribution, and trade patterns
CO16: Assess population dynamics, demographics, and government policies
CO17: Examine regional planning and sustainable development strategies
CO18: Critique geographic theories/models by prominent scholars
CO19: Contribute effectively in academic discourse

Teaching Methods:
• Interactive case study analysis
• Policy debate sessions
• Model simulation exercises
• Regional planning workshops
• Digital learning resources

Student Activities:
• Demographic data interpretation
• Economic pattern mapping
• Sustainable strategy proposals
• Scholarly theory presentations

• Conceptual framework tests
• Policy analysis reports
• Population trend quizzes
• Regional development plans
• Theory application projects
• Group seminar presentations

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Perspectives in Human Geography
• Areal differentiation and Regional Synthesis;
• Dichotomy and dualism;
• Environmentalism;
• Quantitative revolution
• Radical, Behavioural, Human and Welfare approaches;
• Languages, religions and secularization;
• Cultural regions of the world;
• Human development index.
12.00
Unit II: 
Economic Geography
• World economic development: measurement and problems;
• World resources and their distribution;8
• Energy crisis; the limits to growth;
• World agriculture: typology of agricultural regions;
• Agricultural inputs and productivity;
• Food and nutrition problems;
• Food security;
• World industries: locational patterns and problems; patterns of world trade.
12.00
Unit III: 
Population Geography
• Growth and distribution of world population;
• demographic attributes;
• Causes and consequences of migration;
• concepts of over-under-and optimum population;
• world population problems and policies,
• Social well-being and quality of life;
• Population as social capital.
• Problems and remedies of urbanization
• Sustainable development of cities
12.00
Unit IV: 
Regional Planning
• Concept of a region;
• Types of regions and methods of regionalization;
• Growth centers and growth poles;
• Regional imbalances;
• regional development strategies;
• environmental issues in regional planning;
• Planning for sustainable development
12.00
Unit V: 
Models, Theories and Laws in Human Geography
• Systems analysis in Human geography;
• Malthusian and demographic transition models;
• Central Place theories of Christaller and Losch;
• Von Thunen's model of agricultural location;
• Weber's model of industrial location.
Essential Readings: 
  •  Rubenstin, James: Contemporary Human Geography (Pearson Education, Delhi,
  • 2015).
  •  Leong ; Morgan,Gillian C.: Human and Economic Geography (Delhi ,1982 )
  •  Hussain, M: Human Geography (Rawat Publications, 2003, New Delhi)
  •  Kumar,Avinash :Models Theories and Laws in Human Geography ( Anmol Publications,
  • New Delhi, 2014)
  •  Singh,Vaishali: Human Geography(Alka Publications, New Delhi ,2011)
  •  Sharma, Sandeep :Human Geography (Rajat Publications, Delhi, 2015)
  •  Borgohain, Bani :Human Rights : Social Justice and Political Challenges
  • (Kanishka Publishers, Delhi, 2014)
Academic Year: 
2025-2026