What’s new, Thur, Dec. 8, Last Class!

Last lecture notes, for Chap. 18 are on the web site.

Review sheet for the final is there, too. We’ll go over it in class and I will post a few more questions and review suggestions on Friday.

Exam is in the regular classroom at 4:30pmn Monday.

What’s New

Tue, Dec. 6

A review sheet for the final exam and a few sample questions are now posted.

Final notes for Chapters 17 and 18 will be here by Wednesday morning.

We’ll finish chap 18 on Thur (last class) and review.

What’s new

Fri., Nov. 11

Question 12 on the midterm about Malthus will be dropped and tests re-graded—we did not get to this material before the exam.

The pages for Chap. 10 are wrong in the syllabus; read pp. 206-216. Also, The material for Nov. 10 and 15 lectures, on the Hydrological Env and Water resources, is in Chap. 12. The syllabus on the web has been changed to reflect this.

What’s New:

Tuesday, Nov. 1:

You should get student reports on the exam back in recitations this week. Please note that the important value is your number correct answers. The “weighted score” is calculated against 41 questions, but I included 41 as an extra point, so will calculate scores against 40 questions.

Here’s the initial breakdown for letter grades, as also stated in the syllabus:

Number correct:

41-36 = A

35-32 = B

31-28 = C

27-24 = D

23 or fewer – F

These breaks may change as I look more at the spread of grades and hear back from you. Bring any issues you have about the exam to me.

We take up the Energy chapter this week.

Bill Travis

What’s New

Tuesday, Oct. 18

We have skipped Chap. 7 and will probably stay in Chap. 8 until the midterm, taking up Chap 7 afterwards.

A new set of sample questions and study ideas have been posted today.

The midterm is next week, Tue., Oct. 25. It will have 50 questions and will take 50 min. There will be no recitations next week.

Monday, Oct. 3:

Study guidelines and Sample Questions for the midterm are now posted on this web site.

What’s New: Thur., Sept. 29

Notes for all of Chapter 4, the global systems and cycles, are now posted.

Sample midterm questions will be posted later today or tomorrow (Fri).

You will introduce Exercise 4, “Human Transformations” next week in recitation. Be ready, this exercise draws on this week’s lectures..

What’s New Friday, Sept. 8

We’re in the middle of Chapter 3, SO WE ARE TECHNICALLY AHEAD OF THE SYLLABUS SCHEDULE, SO PLEASE NOTE. I SUSPECT WE’LL GET BEHIND SOON ENOUGH!!! But let me point out that I am adding material in lecture using slides and the lecture notes to enlarge on the textbook. SO, as you go over this material for the mid-term, be sure to use the lecture notes (now on this website for Chap. 3) as your main guide, and see how they touch upon the textbook. In future chapters the text carries enough information that the lecture notes do not add significant additional material, but are more outlines.

We started the first written exercise in recitations this week, and you work on four exercise between now and the midterm. Look ahead and download the exercise sheet form the web before it is discussed in class. Check the syllabus for due dates, but written hand-ns are typically due after the exercise is discussed in recitation (though Exercise 2 has two discussion sessions, so it is due the week after the second discussion session).

Bill Travis

What’s New, Saturday, August 8/27/05

A SLIGHTLY MODIFIED SYLLABUS HAS BEEN POSTED ON THE WEB. IT NOW SPECIFIES THE RECITATION EXERCISES THAT WERE “TBA” FOR AFTER THE MID-TERM (AND CHANGES TWO OTHER POST-MIDTERM EXERCISE TOPICS). IT ALSO GIVES YOU EXERCISE POINTS AND DUE DATES. I will bring some hard copies of this slightly modified syllabus to class, but hope that most of you are willing to get it from the web.

In the second week of classes we deal with Chap. 1 in the textbook. Recitations begin or continue your discussion of the relationship between society and nature, giving you a chance to share views. Monday recitations may also take up Exercise 1, since the following Monday is Labor Day holiday. The written hand-in is due the following week.

The TA e-mails and recitation schedule are now posted on this web site.

The final set of exercises (5-8, FOR AFTER THE MID-TERM) will be posted here during the second week of classes (only exercises 1-4 are up now). You needn’t look that far ahead, in any case. DO check out the recitation exercise a week before they are to be discussed. Recitation activities for each week are listed in bold following the two class listings for that week on the syllabus.

Trivia Question: What ski area is pictured on the class home page?

Bill Travis

What’s New?

Welcome to Geography 2412: Environment and Society, for Fall, 2005

The first lecture is Tuesday at 11 am. Look over the syllabus on this site before class. Please also attend recitation sections this week. Be sure you are enrolled in a recitation section; if you are wait-listed, look for one of the other 17 sections that could suit your schedule. You can also find the first four written recitation exercises on this web site. You take up the first exercise in recitaitons during the second week of class. Stay a week ahead in terms of looking at the written exercises.

If you want a textbook please buy it soon. Often the bookstores do not order sufficient numbers for the whole class, as some students share.

See you Tuesday in Muenzinger E050.

Bill Travis

Associate Professor