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Undergraduate Record 2018-2019 
    
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Undergraduate Record 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

HIST 2212 - Maps in World History

This course offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the history of cartography that ranges across the globe from oldest surviving images of pre-history to GIS systems of the present day. It approaches map history from a number of disciplinary perspectives, including the history of science, the history of cartography, critical theory and literary studies, anthropology, historical geography, and spatial cognition and wayfinding.



Credits: 3