Syllabus
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Course Code: M-GEO-401 (core) Course Name: Geographical Thought |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | 1. Classification of knowledge, nature of geography and its place among sciences. 2. Nature of geographic knowledge during ancient (Greek and Roman) and medieval (Arab) periods 3. Foundation of modern geography-contributions of Varenius, Kant, Humboldt and Ritter. |
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| 2 | 4. Emergence of geography as a study of (i) physical features (ii) chorology (iii) landscapes. 5. Concepts in geography: environmental determinism and possibilism, areal differentiation. 6. Dichotomy and dualism in Geography: Physical vs Human Geography and Systematic vs Regional Geography. |
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| 3 | 7. Quantitative revolution-emergence of geography as spatial science. 8. Positivist explanations in geography- laws, theories, models. 9. Inductive and deductive logic in geographic explanations. |
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| 4 | 10. Behavioral and humanistic perspectives in geography. 11. Social relevance in geography-Welfare, Radical and Feminist Perspectives. 12. Postmodernism and Geography. |
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