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Dates,
Quizzes, Key Words
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Region
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Concepts
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Readings
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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 |