Ingolf Vogeler
Fall
Semester
Complete a self-test on the Web after each section, as provided by the links below.
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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.
Complete a self-test on the Web after each section, as provided by the links below. |
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Date | Lecture Topic | Assignment | |||||
| Sept. 6 | 
Introduction Spatial patterns vary by scale:
1)
world population characteristics
and 2)
world income inequality.
Checkout these very relevant and well-designed
web sites
for statistics and maps of major world data:
NationMaster,
GapMinder
(particularly clever, and
ShowWorld (neat cartograms). |
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. 8 | Where is the Third World? statistics by country 100 Percent "American" -- really! | start Third World Maps | |||||
| Sept. 13 |
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. 15 | Three Analytical Perspectives: Conservative, Liberal, Radical | ||||||
| Sept. 20 | Applications of Analytical Perspectives Also check out the ideology of map projections. | 
Third World Maps
due;
start
Project 1
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| Sept. 22 | Climates and Resources | self test #3; Chapters 3-5 | |||||
| Sept. 27 | World Cultural Regions Hindu Cultural Traditions | Chapters 6-7 | |||||
| Sept. 29 | Blaming the Victims and What the World Wants chart | Chapters 8-9 | |||||
| Oct. 4 | European Colonialism | self test #4; Chapters 10-12 | |||||
| Oct. 6 | Third World Regions: Central America, West Africa, and South Asia | study the web pages | |||||
| Oct. 11 | Third World Regions: Central America, West Africa, and South Asia | study the web pages | |||||
| Oct. 13 | 
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. | ||||||
| Oct. 18 | World Population Issues [world population clock]; study the demographic transition model | Chapters 13-15 | |||||
| Oct. 20 | World Population Issues | Chapter 16 | |||||
| Oct. 25 | Center-Periphery Relations | Chapter 20;
Project
1 due
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| Part II INDUSTRIAL / DEVELOPED / FIRST & SECOND / NORTH / MINORITY WORLD | |||||||
| Western Europe | |||||||
| Oct. 27, Nov. 1, 3 | Landscapes of Western
Europe |
start Europe Maps; study the web pages | |||||
| Nov. 8 | Europeanization of the World | study the web pages; self test #6 | |||||
| Nov. 10 |
TEST #2 and Europe Maps are due
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Europe
Maps due |
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| Rural USA | start Project 2 | ||||||
| Nov. 15, 17 |
Internal City
Structure Read: income distribution; leisure; middle class impoverishment |
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| Nov. 18 |
St. Paul field trip: 7:30 AM to 5 PM on
Friday; meet on the east side of the Davies Center |
all-day field trip in St. Paul | |||||
| Metropolitan USA [USA population clock] | |||||||
| Nov. 22,
29, Dec.1 |
Urban Hierarchy System No class on Nov. 24, Thanksgiving |
start
St. Paul Project
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| Dec. 6, 8 | USA Agricultural Regions
| World Tobacco Atlas | Read about "geoweb."
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Project 2 due Dec. 6;
self
test #7 (urban) |
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| Dec. 13 |
St.
Paul Project due Dec. 13;
self
test
#8 (rural) |
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| Dec. 22 |
FINAL EXAMINATION
-- December 22 from 1-3 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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