Lecture and Recitation Schedule

Week
Class Topic
Class Chpt
Recitation Topic
Recitation Assignment Due
Jan.  14 Introduction: What is Geography? What are Regions? Ch. 1 NO RECITATION THIS WEEK
Jan.  21 1/21 NO CLASS: Martin Luther King, Jr.
1/23 Personal Space             
  Discussion
Jan.  28 Western Europe: European Unification Globalization

Ch. 2 Discussion Europe map project
Feb.   4  Eastern Europe, The Empire Strikes Back, Russia & Its Flanks Ch. 3 Exam Review
 
Russia + map project
Feb.  11 Mid-Term #1 (2/11)
 2/13: Who’s # 1?
  Discussion


Feb.  18 North America: The Work of Nations, The Work of Cities Ch. 6 Discuss
Assignment
Written Assignment #1
North America map project
Feb.  25  Geography of Third World Development Characteristics of Underdevelopment, Middle America Ch. 7 Debate Debate Assignment
March  3 South America: Natural Hazards, Defenders of the Amazon, Sustainable Development Ch. 7 Debate cont’
 
Latin America  map project
March 10 Sub-Saharan Africa: Physical and Cultural Features, HIV/AIDS   Ch. 5
 
Exam review
 
Sub-Saharan Africa map project
March 17 Sub-Saharan Africa (cont'd): Thought for Food, Apartheid
& Beyond, Game Ranching
MID-TERM # 2 (3/17)
  Discussion N. Africa & Middle East map project
March 24 Spring Break—No Class or recitation     None
March 31  The Middle East and North Africa: Economic Geography of Oil, Religion and Restructuring Ch. 4 Discuss
Assignment
Written assignment #2
East Asia map project
April  7 China: 60 Years of Change, Human Rights Ch. 8 Exam review
 
South Asia map project
April 14 South Asia: The Informal Sector, Diffusion, Lending to Poor Businesswomen, microenterprises
MID-TERM #3 (4/14)
Ch. 10 NO RECITATION THIS WEEK
(AAG meeting)
April 21 The Pacific Rim                             
 
Ch. 11 Mock UN
 
Australia & Oceania map project
UN Debate Assignment
April 28 S.E. Asia & Australia +: Gender, Buddhist Economics, Global Change,
Travel Writing, The Future, Review           
Ch. 9,12 Mock UN cont’
 
South East Asia map project
May 7 FINAL EXAM: Wed. May 7th 7:30
 -10:00 AM