GEOG 102

GEOG 102. 01: Introduction to Human Geography

Syllabus

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the

impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Bk. v, ch. 1 (Carlyle, tr.) [source: Stevenson]

Fall 2012 Dr. Scott Brady

MWF: 11-11:50 Office: 523 Butte Hall

Location: Butte 103 Phone: 898-5588

Office Hours: Office Hours: MWF 10-10:40, 12-1

sbrady@csuchico.edu

Geography Computer Lab: Butte 501

Writing Center http://online.csuchico.edu/public/Writing_Center/

Course Description:

In this course students will learn how the study of human geography, leads to an understanding of the interdependence of places and regions in a globalizing world. Among the topics we will consider during the course are regions, culture, resources, spatial behavior.

How the course fits the Diversity Pathway: This course presents fundamental geographic concepts in the context of the world's places and regions. Special emphasis is placed on factors that link and isolate peoples of the world. The course supports the pathway’s emphasis on understanding the world’s places and regions in a comparative framework, and its focus on interdependencies that emerge from a globalized economy, society, and culture. The course has the Global Cultures designation.

How the course fits the International Studies Pathway: This course presents fundamental geographic concepts in the context of the world's places and regions. Special emphasis is placed on factors that link and isolate peoples of the world. The course supports the pathway’s emphasis on understanding the world’s places and regions in a comparative framework, and its focus on interdependencies that emerge from a globalized economy, society, and culture. The course has the Global Cultures designation.

How the course fits the Sustainability Pathway: This course presents fundamental geographic concepts in the context of the world's places and regions. Special emphasis is placed on factors that link and isolate peoples of the world. The course supports the pathway’s emphasis on sustainability by engaging students in study of the relationship between human populations and the physical world on which they depend. The course has the Global Cultures designation.

Course Student Learning Objectives Associated GE Student Learning Objectives

Students can explain interactions between the size and distribution of human and non-human populations, resources and the natural environment in historic and contemporary perspectives.

Global Engagement

Student will understand ways in which they use the environment can affect future generations and other human and natural systems.

Sustainability

Students understand their family’s migration history in the context of historical patterns of immigration and migration that have shaped the contemporary social landscape in the United States, including comparative and historical studies of the cultures of origin of American ethnic groups.

Diversity

How Course will Meet GE SLOs: This course will meet three GE SLOs, as noted in the table above. Global engagement will be met by the entire course, which is already a global cultures course. The course will study sustainability as a concept and challenge for humanity across the globe as it interacts with its diverse physical environments. The course focuses on the ability of students to see how the lives they live in one place are affected by and affect the lives of others elsewhere. Students will practice active inquiry in weekly question sets that focus critically on the readings of each week.

Geography and Planning Department Course Student Learner Objectives

1.1 Students can formulate geographic research questions.

2.1. Students can recognize the presence and application of regional, local and global dimensions of the social and physical worlds in the landscape.

2.2. Students can recognize the presence and application of regional, local and global dimensions of the social and physical worlds in data.

3.1. Students can explain interactions between the size and distribution of human and non-human populations, resources and the natural environment in historic and contemporary perspectives.

3.2. Students are cognizant of varying interpretations of causality, interaction, policy and values in human-environmental relationships.

3.3 Student will understand ways in which they use the environment can affect future generations and other human and natural systems.

4.1. Students can analyze information from different physical or social sciences from a geographic perspective.

Required Materials:

Guns, Germs, and Steel. Jared Diamond. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. Pietra Rivoli. John Wiley and Sons. 2005

You must buy the 2005 or 2006 edition, which has this ISBN number: ISBN 0-470-03920-5/

9780470039205

Don’t buy the new edition, it costs more and my question sets are written to accompany the 2005 or 2006 edition with the ISBN number above.

You will need the book before November 5.

Goode's World Atlas, 22nd edition.

Online and Reserve readings.

Good site for used books: http://www.abebooks.com/ http://www.abebooks.com/

http://www.csuchico.edu/catalog/cat99/req/polic_reg.htmlAcademic Policies and Regulations

Final grades are based on % of 375-400 total points, earned from the categories below.

A=92-100%; B= 80-91%; C=68-79%; D=50-67%; and F= less than 50%.

Exam 1 50 points

Exam 2 50 points

Final Exam 100 points

Quizzes ~10 X 5 ~50 points

Atlas Exercises ~5 X5 ~25 points

Question sets ~15-20 X 5 ~75-100 points

Writing Assignment 25 points

Total ~375-400 points

Web-site: I will regularly update the course web-site. Students must visit the site to be aware of changes and additions. Students are responsible for information included in the Web Resources portion of the site. This material will covered in examinations.

Attendance: It has been my experience as a student and instructor that there is a strong correlation between attendance and performance. Students who rarely miss a class and actively participate in classroom discussions tend to perform well on tests, quizzes, and in class discussions; students who lack the discipline required for regular attendance tend to perform poorly. I strongly encourage you to attend every class meeting. However, attendance will not affect your final grade.

Make-up Exams: No make-up exams will be given. If a student misses exam 1 or 2 with an appropriate excuse, then the make-up will be the comprehensive final exam, which will then be counted as 150 points. Only one exam can be made up in this fashion. If a student misses a second exam that exam will be recorded as a 0.

Quizzes: Approximately 10 quizzes will be given throughout the semester. They will always occur on Fridays and will be announced on the preceding Monday. There will be no make-up quizzes. Quizzes will cover material from lecture material.

Assignments: Students will complete 1 assignment during the semester, which is worth 25 points. Late assignments will not be accepted. If students will not be in class on an assignment due date, they must turn their assignments in prior to their absence. I will ask students to revise poorly written assignments and grade them only after adequate revision.

Question Sets: To ensure that students keep up with the assigned readings, students must complete question sets that guide them through assigned textbook readings. Students must submit handwritten answers to these questions. Question sets and due dates are posted on the course website. I will not accept question sets after the due date. Students will complete approximately 25 question sets. I will pick up 15-20 of the question sets for grading.

Readings and Participation: A fundamental element of a liberal education is the development of the ability to read critically. Hence, your success in this course largely depends on the amount of time and effort you devote to the assigned readings. To encourage your progress in this matter, during each of our meetings I will ask particular students to lead discussions on the required readings. Every student will get a chance. In addition, test questions will not only be drawn from lecture materials. Rather, a certain number of test questions will pertain to information found in the assigned readings.

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.org/index_new.php

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

http://www.letraslibres.com/

Tentative Schedule:

Week 1: 8/27-8/31

http://maps.google.com/

8/29 Orientation paper due:

Instructions: Students will turn in a typed, double-spaced, 250-word essay in which they answer the following questions:

1) Why did you enroll in this course?

2) What international experience do you have?

3) What national experience do you have?

4) What do you hope to learn in this course?

5) Which regions of the world most interest you?

6) Who are you?

Big Chico Creek Watershed History

Question Set: Due 8/29

Key

Buy Guns, Germs and Steel before Wednesday, 8/29.

The question sets that you turn in must be handwritten.

acme map

Climograph

http://www.maidu.com/maiduculture/maps.html

Soil map°

http://www.newsreview.com/chico/ishis-legacy/content?oid=1962445

Guns, Germs, and Steel (GGS) Question Set #1: Due 8/31

Key

http://www.geog.ucla.edu/people/faculty.php?lid=3078&display_one=1&modify=1

http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4776

Ultimate answer explains the proximate causes.

Week 2: 9/3-9/7

Labor Day: Monday, September 3.

Reminder: I do not accept late work. You may, however, turn work in early. Just slide it under my office door, 523 Butte Hall.

GGS Question Set #2: Due 9/5

Key

Web Resources:

http://www.boqueteweather.com/images/world_climate_map.jpg

GGS QS #3: Due 9/7

Key

Friday’s quiz will cover QS 2 and 3 from Guns, Germs and Steel.

http://www.charlesmann.org/Book-index.htm

http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138924149/1493-uncovering-the-new-world-columbus-created

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070620-gunshot-video.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/C006206F/incas_i.htm - sa

Week 3: 9/10-9/14

GGS Question Set #4: Due 9/10

Key

http://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/embed.php?File=calibration.html - conventions_timescale

http://www.drgundry.com/

http://robbwolf.com/

GGS Question Set #5: Due 9/12

Key

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/climate_systems/mediterranean.html

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi20.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100827082155.htm

http://www.boqueteweather.com/images/world_climate_map.jpg

10. Columbian Exchange

Domesticates list

Domesticates list mural

GGS Question Set #6: Due 9/14

Key

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2005/bird_flu/default.stmfile:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/Pri_Diseases/Malaria/

http://globalhealthfacts.org/topic.jsp?i=22

http://www.boqueteweather.com/images/world_climate_map.jpg

Week 4: 9/17-9/21

GGS Question Set #7: Due 9/17

Key

http://www.krysstal.com/inventions.html

http://www.uh.edu/engines/

http://creativeclass.com/rfcgdb/articles/other-2005-The World is Spiky.pdf

GGS Question Set #8: Due 9/19

Key

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txSboSNQINs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43yCiKlbCo&feature=PlayList&p=411D61D233A29297&playnext=1&index=37

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html

GGS Question Set #9: Due 9/21

Key

http://vimeo.com/43038579

White Australia)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7241965.stm

http://www.lostkingdoms.com/snapshots/geological_time.htm

http://www.loris-conservation.org/database/distribution_maps/01_Asia_zoogeography.html

Extra Points Opportunity

Week 5: 9/24-9/28

GGS Question Set #10: Due 9/24

Key

Review for Exam 1

Exam One Study Guide

Exam 1 Spring 2008

Exam 1 map

Exam 1 on Friday, 9/28

Week 6: 10/1-10/5

Thematic Maps and Demographics

Big Paper Alert!

Big Paper Example

http://geography.about.com/: This is a good site for maps for your migration history assignment.

Editing tips

Monday, 10/1. Bring your atlases to class.

Thematic Map exercise: Due 10/3

Key

Population Atlas Exercise: Due 10/5.

Web Map Resources:

http://www.chico.ca.us/Police/crime_analysis/documents/1stQtrPartICrimes2010.pdf

http://www.openheatmap.com/gallery.html

US South

ppt

http://www.eupedia.com/europe/maps_of_europe.shtml

http://religions.pewforum.org/

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/taxgroup/mollusks/zebramussel/

http://nas2.er.usgs.gov/viewer/omap.aspx?SpeciesID=217

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/feral_swine/nwdp.shtml

http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/neighborhoods-health03/figures/figure5_2.gif

http://www.nospank.net/twomaps.htm

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/02/how-to-split-up-the-us.html

crawfish

Population density

Nationmaster

http://www.worldmapper.org/

http://derekwatkins.wordpress.com/

http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=69765&lid=puff_836926&lpos=lasMer

Week 7: 10/8-10/12

Demographics

Required Online Readings:

The first two links below contain information about immigration to Europe. Read them and consider the parallels between the migration of laborers to the US and EU. Read the article at the third link to understand important recent changes in fertility.

http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/billysjourney.htm

Europe's Back Doors.

History Moving North

Falling Fertility

Falling Fertility Question Set: Due 10/8.

Key

Exam 2 Wednesday 10/31

US Demographics

Atlas exercise # 3: Due 10/12.

Key

Exam 2 Map

Demographics Web Resources:

Population density

http://www.miniature-earth.com/

http://www.freerice.com/

http://www-popexpo.ined.fr/eMain.html

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2002/WPP2002-HIGHLIGHTSrev1.PDF

http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w111/demmodel.htm

http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTznEIZRkLg

Nationmaster

http://www.worldmapper.org/

Europe's Back Doors Web Resources:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/world/europe/27sweden.html?_r=1&hp

http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/eurocis/eu/eu.html

http://ceuta.africa-atlas.com/

Apagalo

Migration Landscapes ppt

Web Resources:

http://www.noticiasnet.mx/portal/principal/66024-inicia-programa-atencion-ex-braceros

http://cohaforum.org/2011/08/04/one-way-ticket-or-circular-flow-changing-stream-of-remittances-to-latin-america/

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

http://www.theatlantic.com/slideshows/floridamap/

http://www.theatlantic.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/06/weekinreview/20110306-happiness.html?ref=us

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13185560

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/usa_maps.html

Week 8: 10/15-10/19

Language

Language Atlas Exercise: Due Monday, 10/15

Key

Required reading: What Global Language? This reading is available at this link: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/11/wallraff.htm

Some students have reported problems with the link above. Try this one instead: link.

Question set: Due Wednesday, 10/17

Key

Web Resources:

Language in the news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15216524

Language

http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html

http://www.usal.es/~nonverbal/miscell/grouped.htm

http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio/whygerm11.html

http://www.ipl.org/div/hello/

http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

Language Maps

http://www2.johnabbott.qc.ca/~geoscience/ME/WorldLanguageFamiliesMap.htm

http://www.zompist.com/Langmaps.html

http://maps.howstuffworks.com/world-languages-map.htm

http://www.allcountries.org/maps/world_language_maps.html

Celtic Languages ppt

http://sites.google.com/site/streamgenerics/

http://sites.google.com/site/scottwoodsprojects/

English and American Accents

http://aschmann.net/AmEng/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yke-uDZGEvI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2QtyHultEA&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYmrg3owTRE&feature=related

Cajun accent

“We straight”. 1:05

Geolinguistics

http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/animal.html

http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15731354

http://popvssoda.com:2998/

Language Change

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7705922.stm

Japanese

Announcement

It is time for you to purchase The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. Pietra Rivoli. John Wiley and Sons. 2005.

You must buy the 2005 edition, which has this ISBN number: ISBN 0-470-03920-5/

9780470039205

Don’t buy the new edition, it costs more and my question sets are written to accompany the 2005 edition with the ISBN number above.

You will need the book before November 5.

Week 9: 10/22-10/26

Religion

Nirvana

Religious landscapes

Web Resources:

Geographical Distribution of World Religions

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

You must know pie chart at the link above.

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,775969,00.gif

You must know the geographical distribution of Islam, Hinduism, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

http://www.thearda.com/index.asp

Religion in US

http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28religion.html?_r=2

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/churchbodies.gif

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15534306

http://www.cremation.org/stats.shtml

Islam

http://pewforum.org/Muslim/Map--Distribution-of-Muslim-Population-by-Country-and-Territory.aspx

http://pewforum.org/Muslim/Mapping-the-Global-Muslim-Population(3).aspx

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL3068682420080330

http://moonsighting.com/qibla.html

http://www.submission.org/hajj/kaaba.html

http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/pillars.shtml

http://hnn.us/articles/934.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7232661.stm

Roman Catholicism

http://www.noticiasnet.mx/portal/principal/89474-llama-ratzinger-revitalizar-fe

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/03/MNG96C2L7B1.DTL

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/04/03/MNG96C2L2V1.DTL&o=0

Week 10: 10/29-11/2

Monday: Review for exam.

Exam 2 Fall 2009

Map

Essay questions

Exam 2 Wednesday 10/31

Economics Atlas exercise: Due Friday, 11/2

Key

Blank World Map: Please print out several copies of this map so that you can take notes on it.

Extra Point Opportunity

http://www.mapsofworld.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2008/the_box/default.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7611214.stm

http://www.lochlomonddistillery.com/making-scotch.htm

http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w111/banana.htm

http://www.sfu.ca/geog351fall03/groups-webpages/gp8/prod/prod.html

http://www.allchocolate.com/enjoying/map/

http://www.sucrose.com/learn.html

http://www.elceibo.org/ceibo/en/index.html

Week 11: 11/5-11/9

Rare Earths

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/business/global/30rare.html?_r=2

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/2010/mcs2010.pdf

http://www.physorg.com/tags/rare+earth+minerals/

Mountain Pass, Calif

Extra point opportunity. 1 point for every 1000 grains of rice. Maximum of 15 points.

Here is the group name: Geog 102 Fall 12. You must answer the Geography questions to earn extra points. You have until Friday, 12/14/12 at 5 pm to earn points. Below is a link to freerice.com

Yc99HjGWMM

Travels of T-Shirt in the Global Economy QS1: Due Monday, 11/5

Key

http://plus.maths.org/issue14/features/smith/

http://www.sherrymanufacturing.com/

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/30/149668775/apple-foxconn-to-improve-factory-conditions

Travels of T-Shirt in the Global Economy QS2 : Due Wednesday, 11/7

Key

Extra Point Opportunity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65TkSFDBw4k

http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/rivolip/?PageTemplateID=319

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.org/index_new.php