REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

  This module focuses on the main concepts of regional Geography (regionalization, nodal and functional regions) and the special approach to regional Geography (i.e. the integrative method that combines the various Geographical sub-disciplines). The course zooms in on the changing position of the major regions in the world with special attention to Africa and Rwanda.

      Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:

   1. Know the principal factors that lead to the division of the world into the great economic regions

   2. Present the great economic regions and their resources and environments in general, and Eastern Africa in particular

   3. Know the unexplored aspects of the Geography of the Eastern Africa and Rwanda