World Regional Geography
Geography 1982, Fall 2006
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_1982_f06


 

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Final Exam Review Session:  Friday 12/15 CLRE 207 from 1:00-2:50

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Schedule of Lectures and Recitations

Course Policies and Requirements

Maps, Graphs, and Other Images

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Instructions

Lectures:
 

Section 100

Section 200

M W  2:00 - 2:50

M W  12:00-12:50

Recitations:
 

Section 100

Day and Time

Location

Section 200

Day and Time

Location

101

R 8:00-8:50

MCOL E186

201

M 2:00-2:50

EDUC 132

102

W 3:00-3:50

CLRE 302

202

F 8:00-8:50

GUGG 2

103

T 8:00-8:50

EDUC 136

203

R 1:00-1:50

HUMN 190

104

M 4:00-4:50

GUGG 3

204

W 4:00-4:50

GUGG 3

105

T 1:00-1:50

EKLC E 1B75

205

T 1:00-1:50

MCOL E 158

106

M 12:00-12:50

MCOL E 158

206

R 10:00-10:50

CLRE 301

107

R 11:00-11:50

GUGG 3

207

W 2:00-2:50

EDUC 132

108

F 2:00-2:50

CLRE 302

208

T 3:00-3:50

HLMS 259

109

M 3:00-3:50

GUGG 206

209

T 10:00-10:50

CLRE 301

110

T 3:30-4:20

GUGG 206

210

M 3:00-3:50

HLMS 271

111

W 1:00-1:50

EDUC 132

 

 

 

112

W 12:00-12:50

MUEN E 118

 

 

 

Instructors:

Professor
Tim Oakes
Office: Guggenheim 201b
Office Hours: Wednesdays 8:00 – 10:00
Phone: 303-492-3252
Email: toakes@colorado.edu

Lead Teaching Assistant
Alisa Zlotoff
Office: Guggenheim 314
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 1-2 PM - or by appointment

Phone: 303-492-3684
Email: alisa.zlotoff@colorado.edu


Teaching Assistants:

Section 100

Section 200

Amy Zader (also TA for Section 200) – TA for 101 & 103

Gene Longenecker – TA for 201, 204, & 210                         

Terry Legg – TA for 102, 107, & 09

Alisa Zlotoff – TA for 202 & 208

Andrew Gustafson – TA for 104, 108 & 111

joni palmer – TA for 205, 206, & 209

Anita Peterson (also TA for Section 200) – TA for 110

Amy Zader – TA for 207

Andrew Linke – TA for 105, 106 & 112

Anita Peterson – TA for 203

 

 

TA’s Office Hours and Contact Information:

 

Andrew Gustafson: Mondays 12:30-1:30 & Wednesdays 11:30 - 12:30 in GUGG 310            

                    Andrew.F.Gustafson@colorado.edu                                                                         

                    Office phone: 303-492-6854     

                                                                                                                                                                                           

Terry Legg: Mondays 12:30-1:30 & Thursdays 12-1 in GUGG 310                                               

                         Teresa.Legg@colorado.edu

                    Office phone: 303-492-6854

                                                                                                         

Andrew Linke: Tuesdays 11-1 in GUGG 312

                    Andrew.M.Linke@colorado.edu

                    Office phone: 303-492-3728

 

Gene Longenecker: Wednesdays 8:30-10:30 in GUGG 312

Herbert.Longenecker@colorado.edu

Office phone: 303-492-3728

 

joni palmer: Mondays 10-12 in GUGG Meridian Lab/GFDA

joni.palmer@colorado.edu

Office phone: 303-735-1084

 

Anita Peterson: Mondays 3:00-4:00 & Tuesdays 2:30-3:30 in GUGG 314

                    Anita.Howard@colorado.edu

                    Office phone: 303-492-3684

 

Amy Zader: Tuesdays & Thursdays 10-11 in GUGG 310

Amy.Zader@colorado.edu

Office phone: 303-492-6854

 

Alisa Zlotoff: see above

 

 

Required Text and Web Materials
Readings for this course are divided between the text and materials found on the World Wide Web. Both are required.  Convenient and consistent access to the Web is therefore a requirement to the successful completion of this course.

Text:
Pulsipher, Lydia M. World Regional Geography, 3rd Edition Without Subregions (New York: W.H. Freeman, 2006).

Web Materials:
 http://www.whfreeman.com/pulsipher3e/

Course Description:
World Regional Geography is an introduction to how the discipline of geography makes sense of the world, its different peoples, regions, and places.  At the same time, it is a course on how the world's regions and places relate to and interact with each other.  There are, therefore, two fundamental properties of world regional geography:  one is the diversity of regions throughout the world; the other is the way these regions are connected to each other in an increasingly dynamic system of interdependence.

Traditionally, World Regional Geography involved a comprehensive "inventory" of key geographical features of the world's different regions.  The course typically offered something of a "world tour" of different cultures and customs.  However, in the course you are taking a markedly different approach to teaching world regional geography has been taken. The rapidly increasing interconnectedness of the world, and the unique role of geography in interpreting this interconnectedness, seems to call for a more direct approach to understanding how we are all part of a global system whether we want to be or not.

Rather than offering a comprehensive tour of the world's regions, therefore, this course offers several in-depth case studies of processes that link different places and regions, where the impacts of globalization can be clearly seen and understood along with the continuing importance of regions.  The goal is to help you understand globalization from a local and regional perspective, to see how people's lives in specific places are increasingly linked to a global system in which we all participate, and to see why a geographical perspective is important to understanding how the world is changing as well as our role in those changes.