<p>GES 1980 001 World Regional Geography Carole Huber, Instructor Spring 2012 [email protected] Tues/Thurs 8:00 - 9:40 AM Office: COB 2019, 255-4057 Columbine Hall Room 334 Office Hours: Thu 10-11:30 AM; Syllabus is subject to change if necessary. or by appointment</p><p>Textbooks: World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives, 5th Edition Pulsipher and Pulsipher. W.H. Freeman and Company, 2011 Web Site: http://www.uccs.edu/~faculty/chuber/ges198/ </p><p>Course Objectives "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness…" Mark Twain</p><p>The world regional geography course explores the diversity of human culture within the global context. This issues-oriented class examines the cultural, political, economic and environmental forces that shape each region and the impacts of globalization on our interconnected world. By exploring regions and societies from throughout the world and the forces that impact their development, students will gain a greater understanding and appreciation of other peoples and cultures and be better prepared to function successfully in an increasingly global environment. </p><p>The course objectives will be accomplished through a combination of lectures, worksheets, in-class exercises, map quizzes, exams, projects and student presentations. The variety of types of activities and assessment tools affords everyone the opportunity to succeed regardless of learning style and individual strengths and weaknesses.</p><p>Be sure to check out the course website! http://www.uccs.edu/~faculty/chuber/ges198/ </p><p>The website provides a wealth of information that will assist you throughout the semester:</p><p> Updates: The online syllabus provides any updates as the semester progresses. Any announcements or emergency changes will be posted to help keep you informed.  Maps: The maps and list of place names for the map quizzes are available for students to download. This allows students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the exact map that will be used for each map quiz prior to the actual quiz.  Lecture Notes: Lecture outlines are posted, usually the day before the corresponding class period. Students are encouraged to download the outlines and bring them to class. These outlines present the major points covered in class lectures and greatly facilitate note-taking. If you miss a class, these notes will prove helpful in identifying what was covered during your absence.  Links: A number of links are provided to associated websites, from online atlases and data sources to sites to help complete course readings and assignments.</p><p>GES 1980 Syllabus – p. 1 of 7 SPRING 2012 SCHEDULE DATE TOPIC ASSIGNMENT DUE READING Tues Jan 17 Introduction Pulsipher Chapter 1 Thurs Jan 19 Maps and Location; Worksheet 1 Handed Out “ Tues Jan 24 Europe Pulsipher Chapter 4 Europe Thurs Jan 26 Worksheet 1 Due Pulsipher Chapter 4 Geography Bowl Tues Jan 31 Europe: Map Quiz 1; "Be There!" Map Quiz 1 ~ Be There! “ Thurs Feb 2 North America Pulsipher Chapter 2 Tues Feb 7 North America: Map Quiz 2; "Be There!" Map Quiz 2 ~ Be There! “ Middle/South America Thurs Feb 9 Pulsipher: Chapter 3 Geography Bowl Tues Feb 14 Middle/South America: Map Quiz 3; "Be There!" Map Quiz 3 ~ Be There! “ Thurs Feb 16 Middle/South America “ Tues Feb 21 Exam 1 or Complete your Unit 1 Assessment Thurs Feb 23 In-Class Exercise Assessment 1 Due 8 AM Tues Feb 28 Russia Pulsipher Chapter 5 Russia: Map Quiz 4; "Be There!" Thurs Mar 1 Map Quiz 4 ~ Be There! “ Worksheet 2 Handed Out Tues Mar 6 North Africa/Southwest Asia Pulsipher Chapter 6 Thurs Mar 8 N Africa/SW Asia Worksheet 2 Due “ N Africa/SW Asia: Map Quiz 5; "Be There!" Tues Mar 13 Map Quiz 5 ~ Be There! Pulsipher Chapter 6 Sub-Saharan Africa Thurs Mar 15 Sub-Saharan Africa Pulsipher Chapter 7 Tues Mar 20 Africa/SW Asia: Water “ Sub-S Africa: Map Quiz 6; "Be There!" Thurs Mar 22 Map Quiz 6 ~ Be There! Pulsipher: Chapter 6, 7 Geography Bowl Mar 26-Apr 1 Spring Break – No Classes Tues Apr 3 Exam 2 or Complete your Unit 2 Assessment Thurs Apr 5 Asia; Worksheet 3 Handed Out Assessment 2 Due 8 AM Pulsipher Chapter 8 South Asia: Map Quiz 7; "Be There!" Tues Apr 10 Map Quiz 7 ~ Be There! “ Population Geography World Cafe: Population Geography/Ecological Footprint; Thurs Apr 12 Worksheet 3 Due Pulsipher Chapter 9 Worksheet 4 Handed Out Tues Apr 17 East Asia: Map Quiz 8; "Be There!" Map Quiz 8 ~ Be There! “ Thurs Apr 19 Asia: Globalization Worksheet 4 Due Pulsipher Chapter 10 Tues Apr 24 Southeast Asia: Map Quiz 9; "Be There!" Map Quiz 9 ~ Be There! “ Thurs Apr 26 Whale Rider – class starts 7:55 AM! Pulsipher Chapter 11 Oceania: Map Quiz 10; "Be There!" Pulsipher Chapter 11 Tues May 1 Map Quiz 10 ~ Be There! Geography Bowl Geo Bowl: Chapt 8-11 Thurs May 3 Whole World Geography Bowl; Exam 3 Handed Out Thurs May 10 Unit 3 Assessment Due NLT 9:00 AM Assessment 3 Due 9 AM</p><p>GES 1980 Syllabus – p. 2 of 7 STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND GRADING: In addition to the reading assignments, student responsibilities include the following:</p><p>1. One map quiz per region  There are a total of 10 quizzes worth 10 points each.  Map quizzes are given during the first 10 minutes of scheduled quiz days; students arriving for class after that will not be allowed to take the quiz.  One missed or botched quiz score may be replaced by taking a Geography Zone quiz.  Quiz instructions, maps, and place lists are posted on the Announcements page of the course website.  Helpful (and fun) practice exercises can be accessed from the Links page of the class website. COURSE WEB PAGE: http://www.uccs.edu/~faculty/chuber/ges198/</p><p>2. Be There! (See page 4 for details)  Select a country from the region you choose and prepare a brief PowerPoint presentation about some aspect of your selected country that interests you.  Base your presentation on something that interests you: a recent news event, a current issue or conflict facing the country, a cultural or physical landscape feature, an historical event, cultural characteristics of the population, or your personal experiences in that country.  Sign up in class for the region and due date.</p><p>3. Unit Assessments – The Grade Menu (See pages 5-6 for details) You choose how you want to be assessed for each of the 3 units covered in the course. Options range from exams to attendance to interviews. See pages 5-6 of the syllabus for details.</p><p>4. Map and Data Skills Worksheets There are 4 worksheets worth 25 points each that focus on different geographical topics: location; climatology; sustainability; and, population.</p><p>5. Extra Credit Opportunities There will be opportunities throughout the semester to earn extra credit points. These include in-class exercises (2 points each) and 1-2 page reviews of outside events announced in class (up to 10 points each; maximum of two).</p><p>Semester grades will be based on a total of 600 points broken down as follows:</p><p>10 Quizzes @ 10 points each = 100 points Be There! = 100 points Unit 1 Assessment = 100 points Unit 2 Assessment = 100 points Unit 3 Assessment = 100 points 4 Worksheets @ 25 points each = 100 points TOTAL = 600 points</p><p>Unless you make arrangements with me before the due date, late assignments are penalized 10% per day.</p><p>DISABILITY CERTIFICATION: If you are a student with a disability and believe you will need accommodations for this class, it is your responsibility to contact and register with the Disability Services Office, and provide them with documentation of your disability, so they can determine what accommodations are appropriate for your situation. To avoid any delay in the receipt of accommodations, you should contact the Disability Services Office as soon as possible. Please note that accommodations are not retroactive, and that disability accommodations cannot provided until an accommodation letter has been given to me. Please contact Disability Services for more information about receiving accommodations at Main Hall room 105, 719-255-3354 or [email protected]. GES 1980 Syllabus – p. 3 of 7 Be There! PowerPoint Presentation</p><p>General Guidelines for Be There! PowerPoint Presentation:  Sign up in class for a region and corresponding due date  Select a country from your region and a topic about that country that interests you.  Prepare an informative and entertaining Ppt presentation that clearly and succinctly covers your topic.  Include appropriate maps and images to illustrate your topic.  Examine and present your topic in some sort of geographical context. Address the question of why something is located/occurs there.  Include a bibliography.  The presentation should not exceed 5 minutes in length (excluding pursuant discussion). Presentations that extend beyond 6 minutes will lose all 5 points and be stopped.  Have your presentation loaded in the instructor’s NT INBOX* ready to show. You may e-mail it to me as an attachment (NLT 6 AM), load it directly into my NT INBOX, or bring it in on a flash drive and load it into my NT INBOX from the podium’s computer before class begins.</p><p>Helpful Hints:  A more focused rather than a very broad topic generates more interest. Concentrating on a certain aspect or feature of a country or a culture is more interesting than a presentation on an entire country. Choose a topic that interests you – if you’re excited, the class will be too!  Personalizing your topic, from either personal experience or examples you’ve read about, makes a presentation more interesting than one that is limited to a string of facts and data.  Compose slides that mix images and text. Avoid wordy slides that you just read to the class.  To generate discussion, prepare a question to pose to the class at the end of your presentation.</p><p>Grading Criteria (100 points total)</p><p>1. Presentation – Clarity, Precision and Relevance of Information: (40 points) Was the presentation informative and accurate? Was it clear and easy to follow? Was the bibliography extensive and varied? Was the topic presented in a geographical context, i.e.: Where is something? Why is it there? How did it get there? What does it reflect about the local culture or physical geography? 2. Presentation – Creativity and Effectiveness: (40 points) Was the presentation creative and entertaining? Were there appropriate images and maps to illustrate the topics and/or features discussed? Were slides well composed – a mix of text and images? Did the presentation engage the audience and generate classroom interest and discussion? 3. Attention to Detail (5 points) Was the presentation well constructed and void of spelling and grammatical errors? 4. Time: (5 points) Did the presentation adhere to the 5 minute time limit? 5. Delivery (10 points) Was the presentation in the instructor’s NT INBOX before class and ready to show on time?</p><p>* How to Access the Instructor’s NT Network Account: You can access the NT network from any computer lab on campus in the following manner: (1) Click on the Start button, select Computer, then "users (\\enterprise.uccs.edu)” and "Faculty." (2) Scroll down to "chuber." (3) Paste your presentation in the "INBOX." GES 1980 Syllabus – p. 4 of 7 Unit Assessment ~ Grade Menu </p><p>For each of the three units you must complete activities that total 100 points, for a total of 300 points for the semester. The only activity everyone is required to complete is the final exam. Your projects will be graded on all the criteria indicated, but of primary importance is how geographically informative they are.</p><p>Turn in your grade menu (handed out in class and posted on the class website) indicating the unit assessment choices on which you want to be graded along with your completed assignments. Grading rubrics for Colorado Touring, the interview and the cookbook are included on the grade menu; those for the “Wish You Were Here” Postcard Tour and Video Touring are included on the downloadable templates on the Announcements page of the class website.</p><p>Unit 1: Europe, North America, and Middle and South America You must complete 2 activities from the list below. The Unit 1 exam will be given Tuesday Feb 21 at 8:00 AM; if you are not taking the exam, you should not come to class that day. All other assignments are due 8 AM Thursday Feb 23.</p><p>Exam 1* 50 points The exam will be given during the class period on Tuesday Feb 21. *Exam 1 is required if class attendance is not one of your assessment choices.</p><p>Postcard Tour 50 points Download the “Wish you were here” PowerPoint template on the Announcements page of the class website to “send” me 5 postcards from your “trip” through any part of the regions covered in this unit. Using 1 page for each location, complete the LOCATION box for each of the places you “visit.” Insert a photo of the place in the blank box in the upper right hand corner. Type your message to me on the postcard after “Dear…;” the message should focus on interesting human and/or physical geographical information you have learned about each place. Be sure to complete the BIBLIOGRAPHY text box. Print the 6 page document, preferably 2-sided, and turn in a hard copy.</p><p>Colorado Touring 50 points Find a brochure or web advertisement for a local tourist attraction and visit it -- take family/friends; have fun!  Write a 1-2 page paper about your experience and impressions of the site compared to the advertisement.  Use the Microsoft Office Publisher or a similar publishing software program to design your own 1-2 sided brochure for this tourist attraction. Include geographical information, photos and an appropriate map!  Turn in a printed copy of your brochure and the original brochure or advertisement with your report.</p><p>Class Attendance 50 points Attend all classes for this unit. It is your responsibility to sign in each day before class begins to get credit for this activity. If you select this option, you will lose 10 points for the first class missed and 5 points for each subsequent class missed. </p><p>Unit 2: Russia, North Africa and Southwest Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa You must complete 2 activities from the list below. The Unit 2 exam will be given Tuesday Apr 3 at 8:00 AM; if you are not taking the exam, you should not come to class that day. All other assignments are due 8 AM Thursday Apr 5.</p><p>Exam 2* 50 points The exam will be given during the class period on Tuesday Apr 3. *Exam 2 is required if class attendance is not one of your assessment choices. GES 1980 Syllabus – p. 5 of 7 Video Touring 50 points Download and complete the Video Touring Guidelines on the Announcements page of the class website. Create a 3-4 minute You Tube video about any part of the regions covered in this unit. Be sure to include music from the region along with images, maps, dialogue, and whatever else you want that will provide geographical information about your place. Post your video on You Tube, turn in a hard copy of the completed guidelines, and e-mail me the You Tube electronic link. Be creative; have fun!</p><p>Personal Interview 50 points Interview an immigrant from one of the countries in this unit and type up your findings in essay format that includes the following information: (1) background information about the interviewee’s country of birth (include bibliography); (2) information gathered during your interview; and, (3) your reaction to what you heard/learned. At a minimum include the following interviewee information: place of birth; age; languages interviewee speaks; former and current occupation; route and means of transportation interviewee took to get to the U.S.; how often interviewee has returned to native country; reasons for emigrating to the U.S.; 3 major differences interviewee sees between the U.S. and the country of birth; what interviewee likes most and least about the U.S.; what interviewee misses most about native country; and, whether or not interviewee would emigrate today knowing what s/he knows now.</p><p>Class Attendance 50 points Attend all classes for this unit. It is your responsibility to sign in each day before class begins to get credit for this activity. If you select this option, you will lose 10 points for the first class missed and 5 points for each subsequent class missed.</p><p>Unit 3: South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania You must complete the final exam plus one additional activity from the list below. All assignments are due no later than 9 AM Thursday May 10.</p><p>Final Exam* - Required 50 points You have one week to complete the take-home exam, using notes, books and other resources. *All students must take the final exam.</p><p>Cookbook 50 points Compile a cookbook that consists of 5 local recipes from one or more countries covered in this unit. Put the recipes in a geographical context: What is their story? How do they reflect the history, culture and physical geography of the country or region? Include a bibliography and appropriate photos and available maps that identify the region from which the recipe is derived and the distribution of crops and ingredients included in the recipes. I am much less interested in the recipe itself (so condense instructions!) than in what it reveals about the region’s geography.</p><p>Personal Interview 50 points Interview an immigrant from one of the countries in this unit and type up your findings in essay format that includes the following information: (1) background information about the interviewee’s country of birth (include bibliography); (2) information gathered during your interview; and, (3) your reaction to what you heard/learned. At a minimum include the following interviewee information: place of birth; age; languages interviewee speaks; former and current occupation; route and means of transportation interviewee took to get to the U.S.; how often interviewee has returned to native country; reasons for emigrating to the U.S.; 3 major differences interviewee sees between the U.S. and the country of birth; what interviewee likes most and least about the U.S.; what interviewee misses most about native country; and, whether or not interviewee would emigrate today knowing what s/he knows now.</p><p>Class Attendance 50 points</p><p>GES 1980 Syllabus – p. 6 of 7 Attend all classes for this unit. It is your responsibility to sign in each day before class begins to get credit for this activity. If you select this option, you will lose 10 points for the first class missed and 5 points for each subsequent class missed.</p><p>GES 1980 Syllabus – p. 7 of 7</p>