FALL 2012 COURSES

First Nations of Canada

Steven Savage, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Eastern Kentucky University and
Adjunct Professor of International Studies, Morehead State University, Steve.Savage@eku.edu

Canada’s First Nations are its native peoples who live from the Atlantic Provinces to British Columbia and from the forty-ninth parallel to the Arctic Circle and who include the Ojibwe (Chippewa), Huron, Cheyenne, Lillooet, Nootka, subarctic Dene, and Inuit. In this course, these nations will be examined and compared using the concepts of culture area and culture change, ethnographical, ethnohistorical, and anthropological models.

First Nations of Canada will originate from Morehead State University, use the MSU Blackboard server, and be taught by Dr. Steven Savage, EKU Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and MSU Adjunct Professor of International Studies. You may take this course if you are an MSU student. At MSU, this course is listed as IST 332 and SOC 399. After you register for this course, email Dr. Savage at Steve.Savage@eku.edu and provide him with your email address. He will send you a reply email with basic course information.

Geography of the United States and Canada
Jason Holcomb, Associate Professor of Geography
Morehead State University, v.craig@moreheadstate.edu

The Geography of the United States and Canada will examine the physical landscapes, settlement patterns, political geography, agriculture, industry, and transportation, urban geography, and cultural regions of these two North American neighbors. The course project will be a report which examines a U.S. or Canadian town in terms of the principal course themes.

The Geography of the United States and Canada will originate from Morehead State University, use MSU Blackboard server, and be taught by Dr. Jason Holcomb, Associate Professor of Geography at MSU. You may take this course only if you are a MSU student. At MSU, this course is listed as GEO 241: United States and Canada. After you register for this course at MSU, email Professor Holcomb at j.holcomb@moreheadstate.edu and provide him with your email address. He will send you a reply email with the course information.

Physical Geography of North America
Gary O’Dell, Associate Professor of Geography
Morehead State University, g.odell@morehead-st.edu

Physical Geography of North America will familiarize you with the diversity of natural landscapes from Arctic tundra to California chaparral, from the young and dynamic Rocky Mountains to the ancient and eroded Appalachians, from the Hudson Bay wetlands to the Sonoran desert. To understand the North American physical landscapes, this course will take descriptive approach in association with causal factors to explain the distribution of terrain, geology, climate, vegetation, fauna, and land use with particular emphasis will be given to glacial processes.

Physical Geography of North America is a Canadian Studies Online Program course which will originate from Morehead State University, use MSU Blackboard server, and be taught by Gary O’Dell, MSU Associate Professor of Geography. You may take this course only if you are an MSU student. At MSU, this course is listed as GEO 360. After you register for this course, email Professor O’Dell at g.odell@morehead-st.edu and provide him with your email address. He will send you a reply email with the course information.