GEOGRAPHY 100: COURSE SYLLABUS for SPRING 2005

Prof. Tim Hallinan     E-mail: hallinan@csus.edu
	        Office: AMD 311    Phone numbers: 278-6102 or -6109
	                Office Hours: MW, 9-10 a.m., or by appointment

SCHEDULE for Sections 2 (MW, 7:30-8:45 am, AMD 314)
	                and 3 (MW, 12-1:15 pm, AMD 250)

OUTLINE--Themes in World Geography, a course for Liberal Studies and Social
  Science  majors, introduces geography as a subject of study.  It considers the
  interests and skills which geographers bring to and develop within their chosen
  discipline.  It evaluates various representations of Earth--globes, maps--and
  other tools that answer the characteristic geographic questions, "Where?" and
  "Why there?"
     Our look at locations will be followed by attention to other themes in world
  geography--human-environment relations (e.g., resource geography), movement and
  change (e.g., population geography), regions (e.g., spatial patterns of language
  and  religion), and places (e.g., urban geography).

TEXTS--The text for Geography 100 is Introduction to Geography, 9th ed.,
  (IG) by Getis, Getis & Fellmann.  Readings in this text are listed on the
  accompanying Class Schedule.  We'll also use Goode's World Atlas, 21st
  ed., for various class exercises.

GRADES--Points toward a semester maximum of 1000 accumulate as follows:
     
   3 take-home atlas exercises @ 100 points each.............300 points
   6 map location quizzes @ 25 points each...................150 points
   2 in-class quizzes @ 100 points each......................200 points
   1 final exam @ 150 points.................................150 points
   1 report on "Local Geography"..............................75 points
   1 report on "Immigrant Experiences"........................75 points
   1 show-and-tell: "Unusual Map".............................30 points
   Attendance: 10 sign-up rosters selected at random..........20 points

Go to links for ATLAS ASSIGNMENTS:  #1   #2   #3
Go to review for QUIZZES:   #1   #2   Final
Go to this semester's  SCHEDULE.
Go to CURRICULUM suggestions.
Go to lists for MAP QUIZZES:   #1   #2   #3   #4   #5   #6
Letter grades for the semester are based on total points:
		900 - 1000 points		A's
		800 - 899 points		B's
		700 - 799 points		C's
		600 - 699 points		D's

ASSISTANCE--My CSUS phone numbers: 278-6102 or -6109
   E-mail: hallinan@csus.edu

This page was updated 01-25-05