Human Geography

Max Teody T. Quimilat

 WELCOME TO SOUTHERN LEYTE STATE
UNIVERSITY – COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Social Science Department

 Educational Background
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology ( USC )
Master of Arts in Education Maj. Soc. Sci ( CTE )
Bachelor of Arts Classical Maj. Philosophy ( SHS )

Core Faculty, Cultural Contextualization Division

Center for Access to Rural Education
Southern Leyte State University- College of Teacher Education

Max Teody T. Quimilat

Instructor
Vision:
A high quality corporate science and
technology university.
Mission:
SLSU will produce science and technology leaders as well as
competitive professional; generate breakthrough research in S
and T – based disciplines; transform and improve the quality of
life in the communities in the service areas; and be self-
sufficient and financially viable.
 Nature and Scope of Human Geography

Study of the Earth as

Geography home of humans
Interdisciplinary integrative

Systematic Regional

Perspectives in
Geography Human
(Different but Geography
Locational and distributional aspects of cultural
Interrelated) phenomena resulting from the ever changing
human – nature interaction
Emergence of Human Geography as a Field of Study

Later half of the 15th Work of Bernhard Varenius

Century to 18th Century (Geographia Generalis)
Examined, General and special
Appreciate advances in classified by Constitution
Earth as
techniques of map professional of individual
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making geographers regions
Accumulation of vast 3 Sections of the Earth (Early Greeks)
information through Celestial Properties
expeditions Terrestrial Properties
Human Properties
 19th Century
Major emphasis on Reaction to this scholars began to
With the rapid the relief features examine the relationship between
development attempts
were made to restrict
of the earth
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humans and their natural
environment.
the scope of geography cultural features
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geomorphology

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Scope of Human Geography locational

analysis of
man made
phenomena
Physical of natural environment on the earth’s
surface
Geography of the First Vital Necessities
Geography of the Utilization of the
Cultural environment Early Resources
Economic
Ecological and Social Geography

Tasks
analysis –
Political
human Geography and Geography of
environmentHistory
linkages within
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Approaches to Study Human Geography

• Determinism (human as passive)

• Possibilism (human as active agents)

Recent Changes (Post World War 2)

• Positivism
• Behavioral
• Welfare
• humanism