Course Detail
World Regional Geography
Time and Location
Times
Term: Spring 2025
Start Date: JAN 13, 2025
End Date: MAY 16, 2025
Meeting Days: TR
Meeting Times: 12:30PM-01:45PM
Location
Campus: Hillsboro
Building: ASI
Room: 119
Registration Information
Credit Hours: 3
Subject Code: GEO
Course Number: 103
Section Number: 01
CRN: 38371
Tier: 1
Instruction TypeLecture
Enrollment Numbers
Remaining Seats: 5
Filled Seats: 20
Maximum Seats: 25
Comments:
Course Description: Prerequisite: Reading proficiency
World Regional Geography is an introduction to the academic discipline of Geography including a world survey, presenting the essential physical and cultural characteristics, key issues, and problems of the major regions of the world: the Americas, Europe, Russia, North Africa, Southwest Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific. Special attention is given to selected countries. (F,S,O)
Core 42 MOTR GEOG101 World Regional Geography
World Regional Geography is an introduction to the academic discipline of Geography including a world survey, presenting the essential physical and cultural characteristics, key issues, and problems of the major regions of the world: the Americas, Europe, Russia, North Africa, Southwest Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific. Special attention is given to selected countries. (F,S,O)
Core 42 MOTR GEOG101 World Regional Geography
Faculty Information
Name: Elizabeth Hollander
Title: Professor
Classification: Full Time
Credentials: Int'l and Comparative Politics: The London School Of Economics,Bachelor of Arts: University Of Denver,Master of Arts: Columbia University (New York)
Office: ASII 406
E-Mail: lholland@jeffco.edu
Phone Extension: 3352
Bio: Professor Lisa Hollander holds a BA in English from the University of Denver, a diploma in International and Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics, an MA from Columbia University in New York, and has completed coursework for a PhD in History. Ms. Hollander teaches courses in three disciplines: Geography, History, and Political Science. Professor Hollander has taught at Jefferson since 1997, and, in that time, she has earned the Student Senate Faculty Member of the Year award, the Governor`s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Linda Johnston Assessment Award, Jefferson College`s Foundation Faculty of the Year award, and the Missouri Community College Association`s Global Educator of the Year award. Deeply committed to bringing international issues into the Missouri community college curriculum, Ms. Hollander serves on the Diversity Committee and the Global Education Subcommittee and acts as Coordinator of the Global Studies Program. Born in Zimbabwe, Ms. Hollander has lived in a multitude of countries in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, and has lived in six different states of the United States. In her spare time, she collects history books and travels as much as possible.
