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GEO 215 Geographic Thought And Development Of Geography In Nigeria

NCE2 levelSocial Sciences16 topics

GEO 215 covers 16 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Simple historical development of the discipline and its relationship with
  2. Major contributions of scholars using schools of thought:
  3. Environmental Determinism
  4. Possibilism
  5. Radicalism
  6. 112 | P a g e
  7. Probabilism etc.
  8. Development of branches of Geography as a discipline:
  9. Social Science (i.e. cultural geography, political geography
  10. Sciences (i.e. geomorphology, biogeography, climatology, hydrology).
  11. Environmental Science (ie. conservation and use of land and its
  12. The development of Geography in Nigeria
  13. The recency of Geography as a discipline
  14. Current developments in geography and challenges
  15. The development of thoughts in population Geography
  16. Medical geography and Population Education in Nigeria.

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Simple historical development of the discipline and its relationship with

This topic introduces how geography developed as a discipline over time and explains how it relates to other fields of study. For examination purposes, you should master the broad stages in the growth of geography, the shift from description to analysis, and the interdisciplinary links that make geography important in both the natural and social sciences.

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