GEOG 401 Capstone:: Migrants & Mexico

Fall 2007 syllabus

Below is the official class schedule of activities and assignments. Please recognize that a syllabus is always tentative and subject to updating. Please listen for changes announced in class.

E-resources, including readings, lecture notes and links to other information is in red. Additional readings will be announced & posted. Please have readings completed before the day in which they are discussed.

GEOG 401 Migration/Mexico Capstone Homepage
UPDATED: 12 September, 2007

Date

Topic

Readings & Assignments

September

1

Sept 05

Introduction to Course & Context
Geographic Field Research
Research Hypotheses
Field Trip
MONDAY SEPT 10 Waumandee, WI -- Leave 5:45 am

Qualitative Research Methods
Kaldjian & Hoffman, Rural Wisconsin, Latino Labor, and the Migration Paradox, p. 3-11, Kaleidoscope II, 2007
The Other Face of America: Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future, by Jorge Ramos, Rayo/HarperCollins, 2002.
 

2

Sept 12

Literature Searches
Envisioning Final Project
Prepare for Mexico

Assignment #1 -- Research Questions & Methods
Qualitative Methods in Human Geography, 2^nd ed., Oxford University Press, Iain Hay, ed., 2005.

3

Sept 19

Begin Field Work
Data needs
Research design
HISPANIC SUMMIT, Tuesday, SEPT 25 --
ARCADIA, WI, 8-5pm.

Assignment #2 -- Literature Surveys

4

Sept 26

Interviews & Surveys
Transmitting Results
Continue Fieldwork

Assignment #3 -- Research Design & Data Needs

October

5

Oct 03

Discuss Experiences & Findings

Assignment #4 -- Proposals & Draft Outline for Final Project

6

Oct 10

Data Analysis
Revisit Hypothesis
Revisit Research Plan
Final Trip Preparations

7

Oct 17

Leave for Mexico

8

Oct 24

MEXICO

9

Oct 31

Data Compilation & Analysis
Continue Fieldwork

Assignment #5 -- Trip report

November

10

Nov 07

Conclusions & Recommendations
Continue Fieldwork

11

Nov 14

Report on progress
Continue Fieldwork

Assignment #6 -- Conclusions and recommendations

12

Nov 21

Work in Teams
Continue Fieldwork

13

Nov 28

Fine Tune Final Draft
Continue Fieldwork

Assignment #7 -- Final draft display/presentation & website

December

14

Dec 05

Critique Draft

Assignment #8 -- Final project Due

15

Dec 13

Presentation of Results

Exam #3 (Final Exam): Thursday, 21 December at 3:00 p.m.