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Geography 230
Syllabus

See syllabus distributed in class for dates of exams and specific reading in Chapter 10.

Dates, Quizzes, Key Words
Region
Concepts
Readings
Week 1-2
 - Concepts and Key
words
 - Lecture Outline

- Practice Quiz

 Introduction to geography, geographic concepts, environment and society, geography and development, globalization spatial perspective, region, landscape, movement, distribution, scale, location, development globalization, etc. Chapter 1.  Diversity amid Globalization
Week 2-3
- Concepts and Key
words 
- Lecture Outline
      Practice Quiz
 
Subsaharan Africa
   West Africa
   Equatorial Africa
   East Africa
   Southern Africa
medical geography, continental drift, green revolution, colonialism, plural society, refugees, landlocked state, exclave, etc. Chapter 6 Subsaharan Africa
Week 4-5
 Concepts and Key Words

[no lecture outline or practice quiz for this section]

Southwest Asia and North Africa 
   North Africa 
   Mediterranean  and
   Persian Gulf
         countries 
   Northern and 
       Eastern border 
       countries
Domestication, hydropolitics, Islam, OPEC, Ottoman Empire, Israeli-Palestinian question, nomadism, transhumance, Kurds, Suez Canal, cultural diffusion  Chapter 7.  Southwest Asia and North Africa
Week 6-7
- Concepts and Key
words
 - Lecture Outline
Practice Quiz
South Asia
   Pakistan
   India
   Bangladesh
   Sri Lanka
Central Asia:
   Afghanistan
monsoon, population geography, irredentism, centrifugal/centripetal forces, caste system, intervening opps., natural hazards, etc. Chapter 12 South Asia
Parts of Chapter 10, Central Asia (focus on Afghanistan)
Week 8-9
 - Concepts and Key
words
 - Lecture Outline
Practice Quiz
East Asia
   China Proper
   Xizang, Xinjiang
   Japan
   Taiwan
   Korea
development, hegemony, core area, buffer state, modernization, complementarity, economic tiger, etc. Chapter 11  East Asia,
Parts of Chapter 10, Central Asia (focus on western China)
Week 10
 - Concepts and Key
words
 - Lecture Outline
Practice Quiz
Southeast Asia
   Mainland
   Insular region
political geography, territorial morphology, domino theory, etc. Chapter 13
FINAL 
EXAM
Check PSU Bulletin for current term final exam schedule   Lecture and textbook material from 2nd part of class

Content byMartha Works.