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GEOG 050: WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY Fall 2013
MWF 3:00 to 3:50pm, Lafayette L207
Syllabus
** Subject to change **
Day Date Lecture Topic Assignment Due
Mon 8/26 1. Introduction to World Regional Geography
Wed 8/28 2. Introduction to Geography: An Overview of Spatial
Representation
Fri 8/30 3. Introduction to Globalization: A Top-Down Perspective
Last Day to Add Classes without Instructor Permission
Mon 9/2 NO CLASS – Labor Day Holiday
Wed 9/4 4. Introduction to Globalization II: A Bottom-Up Perspective
Fri 9/6 5. The 21st Century Global Environment: Crisis and Modern
Society
CHS 1 & 2: 1-70
Mon 9/9 EXAM # 1: INTRODUCTORY CONTENT
Add/Drop, Pass/No Pass, Audit Deadline
Wed 9/11 6. Europe Overview
Fri 9/13 7. Colonialism and the Rise of European Power
MAP QUIZ # 1: Europe
CH 8: 341-360, 366-387
Mon 9/16 8. North America Overview
Wed 9/18 9. The Origins of the United States: Land, Culture(s),
Domination
CH 3: 73-104, 118-123
Fri 9/20 10. Petrol-culture & Energy Panic
Mon 9/23 Film screening: Dirty Energy
Wed 9/25 Film screening: Dirty Energy
Fri 9/27 11. Latin America Overview
Mon 9/30 12. 20th Century U.S.-Latin American Relationships
MAP QUIZ # 2: Latin America
CH 4: 125-140, 147-173
Wed 10/2 13. The Pink Tide: Latin American Resistance to U.S.
Economic Policy (NAFTA, Cochabamba)
Instructor Harlan Morehouse
Office: 211 Old Mill
Office Hours: MW, 1:00 to 2:30 pm
Jesse Baum
Office: 220 Old Mill
Office Hours: F 11:45am to 1:45pm
Teaching Assistants
Erin Kerr
Office: 220 Old Mill
Office Hours: Tu/Th 2:30 to 3:30pm
Fri 10/4 EXAM # 2: EUROPE, N. AMERICA, L. AMERICA MG Modules 1-4 due at
11:59pm
Mon 10/7 14. Russia Overview
Wed 10/9 15. A Brief History of the Cold War CH 9: 389-413, 419-439
Fri 10/11 16. Chernobyl and the post-Soviet Environment
Mon 10/14 17. Southwest Asia & North Africa Overview
MAP QUIZ # 3: SW Asia and N. Africa
Wed 10/16 18. Between War and Revolution: Understanding the Syrian
Crisis
CH 7: 287-300, 305-339
Fri 10/18 19. Sub-Saharan Africa Overview
Mon 10/21 20. Neo-colonialism and the Niger Delta Region
MAP QUIZ # 4: Sub-Saharan Africa
CH 6: 225-285
Wed 10/23 21. The True Cost of Ivory
Fri 10/25 EXAM # 3: RUSSIAN DOMAIN, SW ASIA & N. AFRICA, SUB-
SAHARAN AFRICA
MG Modules 5-7 due at
11:59pm
Mon 10/28 22. Oceania and Australia Overview
Last Day to Withdraw
Wed 10/30 23. Australia’s Stolen Generation CH 14: 637-675
Fri 11/1 Film Screening: The Coconut Revolution
Mon 11/4 Content TBD
Wed 11/6 24. South Asia Overview CH 12: 537-562, 567-585
Fri 11/8 25. Bhopal Gas Disaster
Mon 11/11 26. The Green Revolution & Biopiracy in India
Wed 11/13 27. Southeast Asia Overview
Fri 11/15 28. Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge
MAP QUIZ # 5: South and Southeast Asia
CH 13: 587-635
Mon 11/18 29. East Asia Overview
Wed 11/20 30. A Political Ecology of Famine in 19th Century China CH 11: 481-535
Fri 11/22 Content TBD
Mon 11/25 NO CLASS – Thanksgiving Recess
Wed 11/27 NO CLASS – Thanksgiving Recess
Fri 11/29 NO CLASS – Thanksgiving Recess
Mon 12/2 31. Global Capitalism and the Problem of Pollution Extra Credit papers due at
11:59pm
Wed 12/4 32. Course Conclusion Lecture
Last Day of Classes
MG Modules 8-10 due at
11:59pm
Fri 12/13 EXAM # 4: OCEANIA, AUSTRALIA, AND ‘THE ASIAS’
1:30 TO 4:15PM
