Geography 201D: Cultural Geography

Friday, December 4, 2009

Schedule: Fall 2009

Note: This is a tentative schedule and I reserve the right to change any and all dates within the bounds of scheduled class time. I will periodically add links to the schedule below. You, the student, are responsible for reading the material before class, being here and aware during every class.

Week 1

First Day of Class

Monday – Sept 21

 

Chapter 1 Lecture Notes

 

 

Chapter 1- Thinking Geographically

 

 

Cartography/ Mapmaking

 

 

Week 1 Exercise

 

This Week’s Videos:

One Earth, Many Scales

http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html

 

 

 

Week 2

Chapter 2/3 - Population/  Migration

 

 

Chapter 2 Lecture Notes

 

 

Chapter 3 Lecture Notes

 

 

Team Planning Day - Submit your Topics

Tuesday

This Week’s Videos:

Population Transition in Italy;

Mexico: Motive To Migrate

http://www.learner.org/resources/series85.html

http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html

 

 

 

Week 3

Chapter 4 – Folk and Popular Culture

 

 

Chapter 4 Lecture Notes

 

 

Folk and Pop Culture – supplemental notes

 

 

Chapter 4 - Short Focus 1, Discussion

Thursday

 

Dale Lightfoot's Webpage

 

This Week’s Videos:

Devil’s Playground

BX8129.A5 D48 2002

 

 

 

Week 4

Chapter 5 – Language

 

 

Chapter 5 Lecture Notes

 

 

American Tongues Supplemental Notes

 

 

Chapter 5 - Short Focus 2, Discussion

Thursday

 

Team 1 Presentation

Friday

This Week’s Videos:

Montreal: An Island of French

Do you Speak American?

http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html

PE2808.M262 2004 Pts 1,2, & 3

 

 

 

Week 5

Chapter 6 – Religion

 

 

Chapter 6 Lecture Notes

 

 

Local Church Assignment

 

 

Chapter 6 - Short Focus 3, Discussion

Thursday

 

Team 2 Presentation

Friday

This Week’s Videos:

The Reformation

Ramadan

Early Belief Systems;

Holy Ghost People;

http://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html#

On file

http://www.learner.org/resources/series197.html

BX7990.H6 H659 1968;

 

 

 

Week 6

Chapter 7 – Ethnicity

 

 

Chapter 7 Lecture Notes

 

Washington Geographic Information Council Regional Meeting – EVCC

NO CLASS – View Twin Cities and South Africa videos  below- take notes

Tuesday

 

Chapter 7 - Short Focus 4, Discussion

Thursday

 

Team 3 Presentation

Friday

This Week’s Videos:

Boston: Ethnic Mosaic

Vancouver: Hong Kong East

Lanzhou: Confluence of Cultures

Twin Cities, Divided Lives

South Africa: This Land Is My Land

http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html#

 

 

 

Week 7

Chapter 8 – Political Geography

 

 

Chapter 8 Lecture Notes

 

 

Chapter 8 - Short Focus 5, Discussion

Thursday

 

Team 4 Presentation

Friday

 

Campus Advising Day

Tuesday

This Week’s Videos:

Slovakia: New Sovereignty

Strasbourg: Symbol of a United Europe

http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html#

 

 

 

Week 8

Chapter 9 – Development

 

 

Chapter 9 Lecture Notes

 

NO CLASS

Monday

 

Veterans Day - No Class

Wednesday

 

Sim Village Exercise

Monday (Week 9)

 

Team 5 Presentation

Friday

This Week’s Videos:

Developing Countries: 
Welcome to Hell;

Mixed Feelings

 http://www.learner.org/resources/series86.html

On Reserve;

HT 384.M49 M59 2003

 

 

 

Week 9

Chapter 10 - Agriculture

 

 

Chapter 10 Lecture Notes

 

 

Lecture Notes Addendum

 

 

United Fruit Company , Supercrops , Risks of Genetic Engineering

 

Chapter 9 - Short Focus 6, Discussion

Thursday

Team 6 Presentation

Friday

This Week’s Videos:

Seeds;

Slow Poisoning of India

Dikhatpura: Help Through Irrigation

Northern Japan: Protecting the Harvest

SB117.S44 1987;

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6926416900837431282

http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html

 

 

 

Week 10

Chapter 11 – Industry

 

 

Chapter 11 Lecture Notes

 

 

Faculty Choice Day - No Class

Wednesday

 

Thanksgiving Holiday - No Class

Thursday/ Friday

This Week’s Videos:

Shenyang: Hope for China’s Rust Belt?

Liverpool: A Tale of Two Cities

U.S. Midwest: Spatial Innovations

St. Petersburg: Russia’s Window on the West

Bratsk: The Legacy of Central Planning

Shanghai: Head of the Dragon

 http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html#

 

 

 

Week 11

Chapter 12 - Services

 

 

Chapter 12 Lecture Notes

 

 

Peer Revue – Final Papers

Monday

 

Final Essay Due

Wednesday

 

* CLASS PARTY - BRING FOOD *

Friday

 

Team 7 Presentation

Friday

This Week’s Videos:

Global Firms in the Industrializing East

Reflections on a Global Screen

Singapore: Gateway to Southeast Asia

http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html#

 

 

 

Week 12

Final Exam (online) – available Monday – Wednesday 11:55 PM

Pick up final papers - Wednesday, Dec 9 – 10:00 AM

Thursday, Dec 10 – 11:50 AM

Wednesday/ Thursday – office or GWH 164 in afternoon