CSULB GEOG100-5 World Regional  Geography

Spring Semester 2005                MW 12:30 - 1:45     UT108               Instructor: Dr. Dmitrii Sidorov

Web: http://www.csulb.edu/~dsidorov/geog100S05.html                      bcs.whfreeman.com/pulsipher2e   

Office: LA4-206c, MW1:45–3:00, M18-18:30, or by app. via email dsidorov@csulb.edu (pref.).  phone: 51861 (don’t use)

Text: L. & A. Pulsipher. 2002. World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives. W.H.Freeman, 2nd ed.

Description of the course: 100. World Regional Geography (3)  Through spatial approach, Geography of the World's Regions introduces students to the world's geographic realms and examines their cultural, population, and political dynamics, resources and economic development, patterns of settlement and environment elements.

Date	Topic/Realm	Film	Map Quiz	Page ## to read
Jan 24 Mon	Orientation
Jan 26 Wed	Introduction	Latitude, longitude & time zones		4-27, 51-53
Jan 31 Mon				27-50
Feb 02 Wed	Sub-Saharan Africa	Kenya		340-354
Feb 07 Mon		Gabon		354-379
Feb 09 Wed		S Africa		380-393
Feb 14 Mon	N Africa and SW Asia	Egypt	Map Quiz 1	290-304
Feb 16 Wed		Jerusalem		304-320
Feb 21 Mon	President's Day (campus closed)
Feb 23 Wed		Istanbul		320-336
Feb 28 Mon	Test #1			[157]
Mar 02 Wed	S Asia	Hinduism		396-419
Mar 07 Mon		Delhi		419-450
Mar 09 Wed	E Asia	Lanzhou		455-465
Mar 14 Mon		Guangdong	Map Quiz 2	465-485
Mar 16 Wed	Project is due	Tokyo		485-512
Mar 21, 23	Spring Recess, no classes
Mar 28 Mon	SE Asia	Vietnam		516-550
Mar 30 Wed		Indonesia / Malaysia		550-565
Apr 04 Mon	Australia and Oceania	Australia		570-581
Apr 06 Wed				581-600
Apr 11 Mon	Test #2			[170/206]
Apr 13 Wed	Europe	Iceland		182-194
Apr 18 Mon		Berlin		194-213
Apr 20 Wed		Slovakia		213-234
Apr 25 Mon	Russia and the NIS	St. Petersburg		238-248
Apr 27 Wed		Bratsk		249-270
May 02 Mon		Dagestan/Central Asia		271-287
May 04 Wed	Mid and South America	Incas	Map Quiz 3	116-134
May 09 Mon		Mexico City		134-156
May 11 Wed		Sao Paulo		156-178
May 18 Wed	Test #3    12:30-2:30			[167]

COURSE REQUIREMENTS To receive a grade for this course you are required to complete 3 exams and a course project.  Tests consist of True-False/Multiple Choice types of questions.  We don’t have a comprehensive final test: Test #3 covers only the material of the last segment of the course (after Test #2).  The course project is a writing assignment/activity.  Map quizzes check knowledge of place locations (materials for the project and map quizzes will be placed on the web in advance).  

MAKEUP POLICY Makeups for the tests/map quizzes/project deadline are possible ONLY in the event of a documented unexpected emergency (such as health problem) or through prior arrangement with the instructor when the student has advance knowledge of a compelling conflict in schedule. Makeups under these two circumstances will be only symbolically penalized (2 points deducted).  All other makeup requests are subject to denial or serious penalty (at least 10 points for each postponed day). 

ATTENDANCE POLICY This is a video-intensive course; we will watch a number of films (see our web-site for optional guiding questions for each film to help memorizing them).  At least for that reason students are required to attend all classes.  Also, the exams will cover material discussed in class and in the textbook, therefore it is important for you to attend classes and read the text.  Furthermore, the course will be much more interesting if you actively participate in class.  You may receive some credit for your participation in discussions. 
    Attendance is checked primarily through pop-quizzes with questions based on readings assigned for each day.  For each fully successful pop-quiz a student would get max 4 points, min 2 points.  There are no makeups for pop-quizzes: these are essentially extra points and they could not be made up even if a class is missed for legitimate reasons. We have no other extra credit opportunities. 


GRADING      The maximum number of points that can be achieved in the course is about 450.

         Of this, Tests (#1-3) 97 each   Map quizzes (#1-3) 30 each  Course project 30  Attendance ~30-40

 A – above 90% of the best total final score in class, B – 80-89.9%, C – 70-79.9%; D – 60-69.9%; F – < 60%.
    Grades will be posted on the course web-site using as an identifier the last four digits of students’ ID numbers.  If you object to using portion of your ID for that purpose, please provide the instructor with an alternative number BEFORE Test #1.

UNIVERSITY WITHDRAWAL POLICY     It is the student's responsibility to withdraw from classes.  Instructors have no obligation to withdraw students who do not attend classes and may choose not to do so.  Withdrawal from a course after the first two weeks of instruction requires the signature of the instructor and department chair, and is permissible only for serious and compelling reasons.  During the final three weeks of instruction, withdrawals are not permitted except in cases such as accident or serious illness where the circumstances causing withdrawal are clearly beyond the student's control and the assignment of an incomplete is not practical. Ordinarily, withdrawals in this category involve total withdrawal from the university.  The College of Liberal Arts adheres to this policy strictly, and does NOT sign withdrawal forms in the final three weeks of class for other reasons..

SCHOLASTIC CONDUCT     As a student at Cal State University, you are part of an academic community and expected to behave in a manner that is respectful of that community, by not engaging in academic misconduct. 

Academic misconduct is an act in which a student:   

    a) seeks to claim credit for the work or efforts of another without authorization or citation;    

    b) uses unauthorized materials or fabricated data in any academic exercise;

    c) forges or falsifies academic documents or records;

    d) intentionally impedes or damages the academic work of others;

    e) engages in conduct aimed at making false representation of a student's academic performance;

    f) assists other students in any of these acts. 

Examples of academic misconduct include, but are not limited to: 

•    cheating on an examination;

•    collaborating with others in work to be presented, contrary to the stated rules of the course;

•    submitting a paper or assignment as one's own work when a part or all of the paper or assignment is the work of another;

•    submitting a paper or assignment that contains ideas or research of others without appropriately identifying the sources of those ideas;

•    stealing examination or course materials;

•    submitting, if contrary to the rules of a course, work previously presented in another course;

•    tampering with the laboratory experiment or computer program of another student;

•    knowingly and intentionally assisting another student in any of the above, including assistance in an arrangement whereby any work, classroom performance, examination or other activity is submitted or performed by a person other than the student under whose name the work is submitted or performed.