Ingolf Vogeler
Fall
Semester
Fall
Semester
Fall
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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. |
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Date | Lecture Topic | Assignment |
| Sept. 2 |
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 |
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Part I AGRARIAN / DEVELOPING / THIRD / SOUTH / MAJORITY WORLD
[All Chapter reading assignments are from the purchased and reprinted textbook by Vogeler and de Souza.] | ||
| Sept. 4 | Where is the Third World? statistics by country 100 Percent "American" -- really! | start Third World Maps |
| Sept. 9 |
Thinking about Understanding
-- visual puzzles;
solve a
puzzle
and another
puzzle. What meets the eye?
Awareness
Exercises
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Chapter 1; self test #2 |
| Sept. 11 | Three Analytical Perspectives: Conservative, Liberal, Radical | |
| Sept. 16 |
Applications of Analytical Perspectives
Also check out the ideology of map projections. |
Third World Maps
due;start Project 1 |
| Sept. 18 | Climates and Resources | self test #3; Chapters 3-5 |
| Sept. 23 | World Cultural Regions Hindu Cultural Traditions | Chapters 6-7 |
| Sept. 25 | Blaming the Victims and What the World Wants chart | Chapters 8-9 |
| Sept. 30 | European Colonialism | self test #4; Chapters 10-12 |
| Oct. 2, 7 | Third World Regions: Central America, West Africa, and South Asia | study the web pages |
| Oct 9 | No class. Vogeler attends the annual meeting of National Council for Geographic Education in Detroit, MI | |
| Oct. 14 | 
TEST #1 -- Grades will be sent to you by email.
After you know your test results and completed the first 4 web self tests,
select
your grading option, which is Test#5 of the self tests.
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| Oct. 16 | World Population Issues [world population clock]; study the demographic transition model | Chapters 13-15 |
| Oct. 21 | World Population Issues | Chapter 16 |
| Oct. 23 | Center-Periphery Relations | Chapter 20;
Project
1 due
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| Part II INDUSTRIAL / DEVELOPED / FIRST & SECOND / NORTH / MINORITY WORLD | ||
| Western Europe | self test #6 | |
| Oct. 28, 30 | Landscapes of Western Europe | start
Europe
Maps;
study the web pages |
| Nov. 4 | Europeanization of the World | study the web pages |
| Nov. 6 |
TEST #2 and Europe Maps are due
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Europe Maps due
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| Rural USA | start Project 2 | |
| Nov. 11, 13, 18 |
Internal City
Structure Read: income distribution; leisure; middle class impoverishment |
self test #7 |
| Nov. 14 |
St. Paul field trip: 7:30 AM to 5 PM on
Friday; meet east side of Davies Center |
all day field trip in St. Paul |
| Metropolitan USA [USA population clock] | self test #8 | |
| Nov. 20, 25,
Dec. 2 |
Urban Hierarchy System No class on Nov. 27, Thanksgiving Urban Hierarchy System |
start
St. Paul Project;
Project
2 due Dec. 2 |
| Dec. 4, 9 | Field Trip of USA Agriculture Read about "geoweb." | study the web pages |
| Dec. 11 |
Obesity
maps, 1985-2002
Congress |
St. Paul Project due |
| Dec. 18 |
FINAL EXAMINATION
-- December 18 (Thursday) from 5 - 6:50 PM 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 in this course, intellectually and geographically; hopefully, this will result in a more comprehensible, enjoyable, and peaceful life. | |
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