Description: The course takes students through the physical environment of Canada, its land, sea, and atmosphere. It addresses the country’s history as settler colonization of Indigenous territory. It explores the circumstances and lives of Indigenous people. It explores the well-established role of resources exploitation, in its various forms, including the development of a hydrocarbon-based economy, now reaching its limits. The course looks at agro-food systems, including agriculture and fishing. It addresses urbanization, now a key feature of both the settlement pattern and the national economy. It addresses manufacturing and the transformation of the country from an industrial to an increasingly post-industrial economy. For these thematic areas, each deeply connected to the broader program of the EUC faculty, we find regional examples to illustrate and illuminate the material. The course is therefore both a systematic geography of Canada and a regional geography of Canada.

Programs: Global Geography