How have your perceptions of geography changed during this course?

While numerous misperceptions exist about geography, by taking this course you should have gained a firm understanding of geography as a dynamic spatial science that is holistic, synthesizing, and integrating. This assignment asks you to reflect on the nature of geography and this course. At the beginning of this semes-ter, you had some perceptions of geography and what this course might cover. Now that the course is near-ing completion, your initial perceptions may have changed as your understanding has increased. What were those perceptions, and what are they now? Do you now think that geography is actually the highly applied science that it is advertised to be? In your essay discuss the following: ___ How have your perceptions of geography changed during this course? ___ Is the geographic approach and perspective useful? ___ Are the five themes of geography useful? ___ Can any topic be studied using spatial analysis and asking where and why? ___ Is geography really an applied science?