Ingolf Vogeler
  Spring Semester

Complete a self-test on the Web after each section, as provided by the links below. You are responsible for all bold-text links, which are mostly UWEC web pages; you are not responsible for non-bold text links, which are supplemental materials, often at off-campus web sites.

Date

Lecture Topic

Assignment

January 22 Introduction Spatial patterns vary by scale:1) U.S. Presidential election results, 2) world population characteristics, and 3) world income inequality. Checkout these relevant references for statistics and maps of major world data: NationMaster and GapMinder. self test #1
Part I    AGRARIAN / DEVELOPING / THIRD / SOUTH / MAJORITY WORLD
[All Chapter reading assignments are from the purchased and reprinted textbook by Vogeler and de Souza. ]
January 24Where is the Third World? statistics by country    100 Percent American -- really! start Third World Mapping
January 29 Thinking about Understanding  -- visual puzzles; solve a puzzle and another puzzle.
There is more than what meets the eye! Awareness Exercises 		Chapter 1; self test #2
January 31Three Analytical Perspectives: Conservative, Liberal, Radical  
February 5Applications of Analytical Perspectives Also check out the ideology of map projections. Third World Mapping due; 
start Project 1
February 7Climates and Resourcesself test #3; Chapters 3-5
February 12 World Cultural Regions            Hindu Cultural Traditions Chapters 6-7
February 14Blaming the Victims and What the World Wants chart Chapters 8-9
February 19European Colonialism self test #4; Chapters 10-12
February 21 & 26Third World Regions: Central America, West Africa, and South Asia study the web pages
February 28 TEST #1 -- grades will be sent to you by email. After you know your test results, select your grading option, which is "Test#5" of the self tests).
March 4
 		World Population Issues  [world population clock] and the
Demographic Transition Model 		Chapters 13-15
March 6World Population Issues Chapter 16
March 11 Center-Periphery RelationsChapter 20; Project 1 due
Part II    INDUSTRIAL / FIRST & SECOND / NORTH / DEVELOPED / MINORITY WORLD
Western Europe self test #6
March 13 & 25 No class on March 18 and 20 (Spring Break) !
Landscapes of Western Europe     Read about "geoweb."		 start Mapping Europe;
study the web pages
March 27 Europeanization of the World Mapping Europe due;
see web pages
April 1 TEST #2 (no fooling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Rural USA start Project 2
April 3, 8, & 10 Field Trip of USA Agriculture self test #7
April 15Problems in USA Agriculture    Obesity maps, 1985-2002    Congress 
Metropolitan USA            [USA population  clock] self test #8
April 17, 22, 24Urban Hierarchy System Project 2 due April 22
April 29, May 1, 6 Internal City Structure Readings: income distribution; leisure; middle class impoverishmentstudy the web pages
May 8 Wichita census exercise do the Wichita exercise
before Final
May 14 FINAL EXAMINATION on May 14 at 10:00-11:50 AM in our regular classroom. [Check the UWEC final examination schedule.]
Provide me with an evaluation of the course. Thanks.
We have traveled a long way, intellectually and geographically, in this course; hopefully, this will result in a more comprehensible, enjoyable, and peaceful life.