This course is an application of spatial simulation models to represent attraction, segregation, individual entities, and processes of spread, applied to contemporary problems in human and population studies. The lecture component covers a serial of topics, including: a conceptual framework human and population spatial modeling; assessment of crowding and crime, drugs and gangs; population growth; religious presence, growth and decline; culturally-based land and resource use, administration of space, boundaries, and territoriality. This course also has a lab component to help students gain hands-on experience of applying spatial modeling to real world human and population studies.
