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Geography 5: World Regional Geography
The canals of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Course Description
World Regional Geography is an introduction to how the discipline of geography makes sense of the world, its different people, places, and regions. What geographers focus on are the ways in which people and places interact across space and time to produce particular outcomes, in otherwords, what makes each place on the globe unique and what makes places around the world similar. We live in an era of greatly accelerated global interaction and dependency. How do we make sense of the local and global impacts and origins of political and economic ideologies, the movement of people, the movement of goods and services and environmental challenges around the globe?
Calendar of Assignments
| Week | Topics |
| 1 | Introduction to World Geography |
| 2 | Europe |
| 3 | Russia |
| 4 | Central Asia |
| 5 | Exam 1 |
| 6 | Latin America |
| 7 | The Caribbean |
| 8 | SubSaharan Africa |
| 9 | Southwest Asia and North Africa |
| 10 | Exam 2 |
| 11 | South Asia |
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12
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East Asia |
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13
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Southeast Asia |
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14
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Australia and New Zealand |
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15
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Final Exam |
Map Assignments
Europe
Latin America
Sub-Saharan Africa
Southwest Asia/North Africa
East Asia and Southeast Asia
South Asia
South Asia Political Blank Map
South Asia Physical Blank Map
Lecture Power Points
Chater 1: Human and Physical Geography
Chapter 2: Europe
Chapters 5 & 6: Middle and South America
Chapter 7: Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 8: North Africa/Southwest Asia
Chapter 11: Southeast Asia
Chapter 10: East Asia
Chapter 9: South Asia
Additional Readings
EUROPE
Global Warming in Greeland
Iceland's Geothermal Energy
Denmark's Clean Energy
Denmark Leads in Wind Power
Germany Bulldozes Old Villages for Coal
Convicted of Genocide: the trial of Radko Mladic
Germany's Soft Exit from Coal
2018: Arrest of a Journalist and Filmmaker in Nor. Ireland
LATIN AMERICA
- Curitiba, Brazil: A Sustainable City
- Mexico City's Water Crisis
- The Transoceanic Higway
- The Kayapo: Out of the Forest
- The Death of Berta Caceres
- The Jungle Highway
- The Four Commandments of Cities: Mayor of Rio de Janeiro
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
- The Dangers of a Single Story: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Leaders Who Ruined Africa and The Generation Who Can Fix It
- Kenya Burns Ivory
- Remembering the Rwandan Genocide 20 years later
- Impacts of Apartheid
- China Reverses Ban on Tiger, Rhino Products
- How Africa is Becoming China's China
SOUTHWEST ASIA/NORTH AFRICA
- The Myth of the Class of Civilizations--Edward Said
- McJihad--Timothy Mitchell
- Steve Coll--Democracy Now! the US in Afghanistan
- Jihad vs Mc World--Benjamin Barber, The Atlantic
- PBS Frontline--Bush's War
- PBS Frontline--The Man Who Knew
- PBS Frontline--Confronting ISIS
- US Involvement in Afghanistan
- Stop Blaming Colonial Borders--The Atlantic
- Saudi Arabia's War in Yemen--The Frontline Dispatch
EAST ASIA
- Life and Death Inside a Chinese "Cancer Village"
- In Chinese Cities, Migrants' Work is Welcome, Their Children are Not
- Resettling China's Ecological Migrants
- How China's One Child Policy Led To...
- Faced With Falling Birth Rates, China Urges More Babies
SOUTHEAST ASIA
- Ken Burns' The Vietnam War
- From the Ruins of a Tsunami a Rebuilt Aceh
- Caught in the Ocean During 2004 Tsunami
- 10 Years Since the 2004 Tsunami
- Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead it Unleashed a Catastrophe--NY Times 2018
SOUTH ASIA
| Last Updated: 8/28/23 |
