GEOG 111 Human Geography

Sum 2008 schedule

To view pdfs of the Power Point slides used in lecture, click on the day (in red) of that lecture on the schedule below. Additional readings & information are also linked.  Syllabus is always tentative and subject to updating.

Taught by Dr. Kaldjian
 

Week

Date

Topic

Readings

Week 1

9:30 to 11:30 am
Study Maps (Follow link to Maps)
1
June 9
Introduction to Hum Geog
Place & Space
Site & Situation
Knox & Marston 1 & Appendix
Becoming geographically informed
2 
June 10
Maps & Regions

Strange Maps
3
June 11
Globalization
K & M, Ch. 2
The global iPod
4
June12
Exercise #1
Economic Development
K & M, Ch. 7
5
June 13

Geog of Poverty/Wealth (see MAP)
Class Matters

Week 2

    
6
June 16
Exercise #2
Population Geographies
K & M, Ch. 3
PRB Data Finder and World 2006
7
June 17
Migration
America's emptiest county
8
June 18
Exam #1
Cultural Geographies
Identity
K & M, Ch. 6
NYT on place name changing
Pierce Lewis on Landscape
9
June 19
Religion
Connection: On Borrowed Words
NYT on Swearing
It's only language
10
June 20
Language & Alphabet
K & M, Ch. 5
NPR: Spanglish
Threatened Languages

Week 3

    
11
June 23
Exercise #3
 
12
June 24



K & M, Ch. 8
13
June 25



14
June 26
Exam #2

15
June 27
Food & Agriculture

Week 4

    
16
June 30
Exercise #4
1) Malthusian Critique
2) NYT on the Rise of Affluence
3) Easterbrook on Borlaug
17
July 1
Political Geography
K & M Ch. 9
18
July 2
Exercise #5
Regional Integration
Together we are many (music)
19
July 3
Exam #3 (Final Exam)
  
 
 
    
 
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