What’s New
Thur., Dec. 14: Last Class:
A few more sample questions have
been added to the final exam study guide, and the last lectures, including today’s
review notes, have been posted.
Fri., Dec. 8:
This week’s notes are now
posted, and a “Study Guide and Sample Final Exam Questions” is also now posted
on the main web page. We’ll discuss Kates reading on “Sustainable Development” on Tuesday Dec. 12, do some review, then review more on Thursday, Dec. 14,
our last class. Final exam is Monday, Dec. 18 at 1:30 pm in the regular
classroom, with an alternative spot for those who requested it TBA.
Wed., Dec. 6:
Lecture notes from last week
(11/30) are now posted. The first study suggestions and sample questions for
the last (3rd) exam, will be posted before
class tomorrow.
Wed. Nov. 29:
This week we are applying concepts from earlier themes, especially “Natural Resources and Natural Hazards”, to the question of how society might respond to global warming (or any similar climate change). Be sure to read the two e-Reserve readings, and see on the syllabus the three short sections of “Vulnerability to Climate Change” for which you are responsible (it is long!). The second reading, Yaminetal et al. “Perspectives on Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference” is only 12 pages, but obviously read for the themes we’re discussion in class.
Monday, Nov. 20: FALL BREAK!
Have a good break and Thanksgiving.
TAs and some students wanted
more details on the grading of the essay, so we have added guidelines for the
distribution of the 20 points within the three major categories of elements of
the grading rubric (the distribution has not changed), which is downloaded
along with instructions from the Recitations Exercises page of this website to
be attached to your hard copies.
Be sure to be ready to offer
a brief, 2-4 minute description of you essay topic in recitations after fall
break!.
Friday. Nov. 10:
Notes from Thursday, Nov. 9,
are now here (no notes for Tuesday, exam day). We’ll still need a few minutes
to finish Natural Hazards on Tuesday, Nov. 14, but then go on to Global
Warming, so check out the website and e-Reserve for next week.
Also next week the instructions
for the final recitation exercise (#6), a capstone essay, will be introduced in
recitation sessions. You can find the instructions and grading rubric on the
Recitations page of this web site, and a hard copy will be handed out in
recitation.
Thursday, Nov. 2:
Today’s lecture slides, the
last before next Tuesday’s Exam, are now posted.
To get ready for the exam,
check out the “Sample Exam 2 Questions” on this web site (it includes a reminder
of the reading material and sample questions), and use the lecture notes
(your’s and mine) to guide you to the material.
I’ll make a point of being in
the office 9-10:30 on Monday morning (extra office hours), as well as regular
office hours 9:30-11 before the exam on Tuesday. I’ll also try to answer e-mail
questions promptly.
Fri. Oct. 27:
Lecture notes from this week
are now posted. I will be adding more sample questions for exam 2 over the next
few days. Keep an eye out. We’ll briefly review for the exam next Thursday, and
the exam is Nov. 7.
In recitation next week
you’ll take up the second part of Ex. 5: Managing Boulder’s Water Resources
System. The worksheet will be posted on this site before Monday, and you’ll get
a hard copy handed out in recitation. Be sure to bring your work from part 1 of
the exercise, which you started this week.
I still have not found and
posted a worthwhile source reading for our discussion of Environment as Natural
Hazard next week, but have links to two thoughtful essays about Hurricane
Katrina that I recommend you read.
Fri. Oct. 20:
The next exercise (#5) begins
next week and comes in two parts over two weeks of recitations. For the first
part you will be given a worksheet to track down facts about
A few more small changes were
made in the Syllabus for next week. No major changes in schedule (The second
quiz/exam will still occur Nov. 7), but we did get behind and will be
considering Renewable Natural Resources, like water, in coordination with
Exercise 5, all next week.
Thur, Oct. 19;
Lecture notes are now up to
date, through 10/12 and the wrap up of our look at the Millennial Ecosystem
Assessment. I introduced Theme 3 “Resources and Hazards”, on Tuesday, and will
get into resource management principles today. See the new e-Reserve on natural
resources.
There have been some updates
to the syllabus for this week, and up-dates for next week are coming later today
or Friday (for Exercise 5), so check it out before the weekend.
Fri. Oct. 13:
You should have received your
first exam results in recitation this week. See me (Travis) if you have
questions—I am in the office for extra hours 10-3 today, Oct. 13.
There is no new exercise for
recitation next week; turn in Ex. 4 on species, and take part in the
in-recitation discussion on species value.
Fri. Oct. 6:
Yesterday’s notes are now
posted, and Exercise 4 is also posted, it will be introduced in recitations
next week.
We will continue to examine
Chap. 3 and 4 of the UN’s Millennial Ecosystem
Assessment next week, see the syllabus for the pdf’s
of the chapters and what sections to read.
Exam results will be returned
to you in recitations next week. Travis will miss office hours Tuesday due to
family reasons, so if you have questions on the exam, or anything, else, try
e-mail, or please wait until Thursday.
Thurs. Sept. 28: last notes
before the exam, today’s material on the carbon cycle, have been posted. A
couple of obvious questions about main storages and fluxes, and human
interventions, in the C cycle will be on the first exam, next Tuesday. For those who wanted them, Power Points of
previous lectures have now been posted along with the PDFs
already posted. I’ll be out of town
Friday, but if you’d like to drop by before the exam, I’ll be in available my office all afternoon Monday, say after 1 pm, and also 9-11
am Tuesday before the exam.
Tues, Sept. 26:
Today’s notes are on the web,
and a few more sample questions have been added to the sample sheet for exam 1.
Monday, Sept. 25:
The PPT and PDF of last
Thursday’s lecture slides are now on. On
Thursday I introduced Theme 2: Human Transformations of Earth,
and this material will be important to Exercise 2, which you begin this week.
The worksheet for Exercise 2 is on the site in DOC and HTML versions.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Sample questions are now
posted for the first exam. I’ll add questions as we go along.
Friday Sept. 15:
Lecture notes from yesterday
(9/14) are now posted. We did not finish them due to technical difficulties
with the LCD projector, so will pick up on the last few slides on Tuesday, and
then move on to the Leiserrowitz et al reading.
Wed. Sept. 13:
Yesterday’s lecture notes
(9/12) are now posted. Sample questions for the first exam are coming in the
next day.
Sunday, Sept. 10:
I added a file of the
ecological paradigm survey items to the recitation page for use with Exercise 1
(I also added the items to the Exercise 1 worksheet). You’ll need these
original survey items to answer the exercise questions. You can also see them
written out with results in the Dunlap reading.
Last Thursday’s lecture
slides are now on the Lecture Notes page.
Friday, Sept. 9, 6 pm:
Finally! I got the Exercise
one data sheet (in Excel and as an HTML file), and the worksheet (as a Word Doc
and as an HTML) ready for download from the Recitations Exercises page on this
website and this exercise will be introduced in Recitations next week.
BTW: the sept.
7 lecture notes are not up yet.
Tue., Sept. 5:
I introduced the class themes
today, then started on the substance of Theme 1; the
lecture slides are now on this site.
Start recitations this week.
You start working on the first written recitation exercise next week (Week 3).
I’ll have the exe4rcises posted by Thursday and very briefly go over them in
lecture.
Saturday, Sept. 2:
I’ve received several
questions about E-reserves: you get them via the CU library website at: http://libraries.colorado.edu/screens/coursereserves.html
To make this a bit easier, I
added a link to this site with each eReserve noted on
the syllabus.
Simply type in GEOG 2412, then
choose the reading and it will ask for your Identikey
password.
We’ll mostly discuss the
first reading (Lowenthal) next Thursday, but I’ll
point you to his main points on Tue.
A few other small changes
were made in the syllabus schedule, e.g., making the last exercise due the
second-to-last week of classes (instead of the last week) to comply with
University guidelines of avoiding exams and exercises in the last week of
class.
Thur. Aug. 31
Geography 2412: Environment and Culture
As announced in class today, I have just now
(Thur, 3:30 pm) replaced the lectures notes for the
first week available on this website. I put the first ones (a word doc and a pdf of the Powerpoint) as
examples, but realize that I should stick to the routine---notes go up after
they have been given in lecture or are at least certainly not going to be
modified before or in lecture!
Old stuff:
PLEASE NOTE: Recitations do not meet the
first week of class, so come only to the two lectures this week (next one is Thur, Aug. 31, 11-11:50 am, MUEN E050). MONDAY RECITATIONS
WILL NOT MEET NEXT WEEK DUE TO LABOR DAY, NOTHING IS DUE SO YOU CAN SIMPLY WAIT
FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 11 TO MEET YOUR FIRST RECITATION, OR SIMPLY GO TO ANY OTHER
RECITATION IN THE COURSE LISTING (THERE ARE 20 TOTAL) TO TAKE PART IN THE
DISCUSSION.
Use this website, not WebCT, for all course material, exercises, etc. The recitation assignments, office hrs, and e-mails of TAs are now on this site. Lecture notes for this week are on this site, both a Word doc and pdf’s of the two Powerpoints. The first few exercises should be on before class on Thursday.
Please use the web syllabus, it allows you to
open readings from the web, but if you want a hard copy I’ll bring a few to
class.