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WHERE DO YOU START?

SYLLABUS

BLACKBOARD

Blackboard Menu:	ASSIGNMENTS BEGIN HERE:
ASSIGNMENTS - BEGIN HERE ~~~~~~~~ ANNOUNCEMENTS SYLLABUS SCHEDULE MAP QUIZ LOCATIONS EXAM REVIEW ~~~~~~~~~~ MAP QUIZZES EXAMS ~~~~~~~~~~~ Orientation Office Hours Textbook Website Discussion Board My Grades ~~~~~~~~~ Map Quiz Tutorial Blank Outline Maps Flashcards Pronunciation Geography Glossary BBC World News Geog. of Skiing Email Student Tech Support Tools	For each "Week" you will find: Videos of the Realm and Video Quiz Map Quiz Information Instructor Notes Studying the Realm TEXTBOOK READING MAPS VOCABULARY (with links to instructor notes) Required Activity Skiing in the Realm (optional)

OTHER

• BEFORE you begin studying FIRST go to the "ASSIGNMENTS - BEGIN HERE" link on Blackboard. This is very important since you may be assigned and graded on extra activities that are not in the chapter.

• Always put "GEG 101" and a message in the subject lines of e-mail messages sent to the me. To avoid viruses, I delete messages prior to reading them if I don't know who they are from. Please use proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

• We do NOT meet at Harper once a week and there is NO certain time that you must be online.

• You are NOT on your own. Your instructor is available to provide assistance and answer questions:
  • Blackboard Discussion Board for any question which might be of use to other students
  • E-mail for personal questions: mhealy@harpercollege.edu
  • Call me
    • Harper: 847-925-6352
    • Home: 815-728-1571
    • Cell: 815-861-7265

   

• SOME OF YOU WILL NOT COMPLETE THIS COURSE
  • Distance learning courses tend to have a high drop rate. Many of you will not complete this course. If you cannot devote at least as much time to this course than you do to regular face-to-face college courses, drop now
  • College Counselors suggest that you should spend 2 hours studying EACH WEEK for each course credit-hour. Since this is a 3 credit-hour online course you should spend around 9 hours EACH WEEK preparing (3 hours that you would normally be in class and 6 additional hours).

• Everything that you need to do is listed under the ASSIGNMENTS - BEGIN HERE link on our Blackboard website.

WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?

(Be sure to see the "ORIENTATION and DAY 1 LECTURE" on our Blackboard "ASSIGNMENTS - BEGIN HERE" link.)

• Two Broad Fields:
  • Human (Cultural) Geography
  • Physical Geography
    
• Human Geography is often studied from two different Perspectives:
  • Regional Geography (GEG 101)
  • Systematic (Topical) Perspective (GEG 100)
    
• We can study the geography of almost anything - as long as it has a "spatial " component.

   

• Three Broad Questions
  • WHERE?
  • WHY THERE?
  • WHY DO WE CARE? / WHAT CAN WE LEARN?
    
  • So we will NOT just memorize where things are, but we will try to explain WHY they are THERE.
    
    • Example
    • Example
      • Wisconsin
      • Colorado
    • USA

     

  • World Regional Geography and Applying the 4 Themes
    • physical geography
    • cultural geography
    • economic geography
    • historical geography

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  ALWAYS KEEP THESE QUESTIONS IN MIND:

  ~ WHERE?

  ~ WHY THERE? 

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  To answer the WHY THERE question we will use the four THEMES:

  ~ physical geography

  ~ cultural geography

  ~ economic geography

  ~ historical geography

    

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WHERE TO BEGIN:

Begin your studying by going to the "ASSIGNMENTS: BEGIN HERE" link on Blackboard.