Political and Economic Geography 4003-105GPIE

Students know the chronology, the scope and politics effects of colonial expansion (the born of Portuguese's, Hispanic, Dutch, English, French and German colonies). They have the information about causes, effects and directions of contemporary emigrational flows. They are ably to explain the causes of urbanization, the role of metropolis and big cities in the process of urban expansion; the social, economic and political consequences of urban sprawl and urban cultural and social internal differentiation. They analyze the contemporary forms of industrialization and the phenomena of new industrial geography (fordism and post-fordism). The analyze the role of services in the processes of development (specially of tourism). They analyze the role of consumption and marketing in te process of creating new territorial social division and in the food production.