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World Regional Geography examines a world which is undergoing political, economic and social transformations at many different scales. Utilizing geographic concepts including scale, place, spatial perspective and location (just to detail a few) this course examines international trends such as global capital. In this case, an examination at the regional level reveals the consequences for places that do not have access to this type of global resource. Concepts such as North and South, developed and developing, globalizing capital and homogenizing world culture, take on new meaning, when they are explored at a regional level. As part of this examination, the course explores how we in the "West" have influenced places, regions and realms around the world through the processes of colonialism and post-colonialism and how these processes have produced a post-colonial world where individual identities are in an important sense globally constructed. Lastly, this course explores how we in the "West" have thought about other places, regions and realms and how this way of thinking has contributed to the way that we think about ourselves.