GEOG 202. Commonwealth of Virginia
FALL 1999
Course Outline
1. Introduction
- Location
- Place
- Movement
- Society and Environment
- Region
2. Physical Geography of Virginia
- Physiographic Provinces
- Hydrology
- Environmental issues
- Climate
- Natural Vegetation
- Environmental issues
- Animal Geography
- Environmental issues
3. Historical Geography: Settlement, Economic, and Land Use Patterns
- Prehistory
- Paleo-Indians
- Archaic Indians
- Woodland Indians: Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan
- Seventeenth Century Colonial Virginia: The Tidewater Era
- European settlers
- Tobacco and land use practices
- Initiation of Slavery
- Sequence of settlement of the Coastal Plain
- Eighteenth Century Colonial Virginia: Developing the Piedmont and Valley of Virginia
- European immigrants
- Virginians on the move
- East versus West cultural patterns develop
- 1776 to 1865: Virginia's position in the new nation
- The War Between the States and post-war recovery
- The Twentieth Century
- World War I impacts
- The Great Depression/New Deal impacts
- Cold War years
- Prospects at the beginning of the 21st Century