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 Prof. Chaddock - Monday/Wednesday 9:35-11:00 am - Room S116.   Semester Fall 2016.

I will take crashers by taking all the people on the Wait List FIRST.  If there are any other openings, I will then allow for crashers.  Since this will be for the first two weeks, if you are crashing the class, please note that it could be in the second week of class before you get an add code.  THAT SAID, I will still insist that you were in class from the first day of class to be allowed in the courses.

Books:  purchase the spiral bound. There are textbooks in the library for use if you cannot afford a textbook. You also need an Iclikr.

San Diego Geography by Phillip R. Pryde (about $25 and worth every penny - you'll probably end up keeping it if you stay here.) Optional.

Your Syllabus

Syllabus Fall 2015 55623 City World Regional Geography CHADDOCK.docx

These are the rubrics for the Poster Session.  Please use them to make sure that you get full credit for the project.

Poster Project Peer EvaluationGeography 104.pdf

Homework 1

You are going to read the journal article, and then answer one question out of each of the headings from the PDF booklet on Critical Thinking.  Each heading has 3 questions, so you need to choose the one out of each heading that fits what you are looking at.  I have handed out one article that should get you started, but you are welcome to choose any article out of a journal that interests you.

Homework 1 World Regional Geography.pdf

Critical Thinking - Concepts and Tools 

These are some articles you might choose for Homework 1, however you are not limited to these alone:

• ·         Addressing China’s grand challenge of achieving food security while ensuring environmental sustainability

BY YONGLONG LU, ALAN JENKINS, ROBERT C. FERRIER, MARK BAILEY, IAIN J. GORDON, SHUAI SONG, JIKUN HUANG, SHAOFENG JIA, FUSUOZHANG, XUEJUN LIU, ZHAOZHONG FENG, ZHIBIN ZHANG | SCIENCE ADVANCES 20 Feb 2015: e1400039

• ·         Settlement scaling and increasing returns in an ancient society

BY SCOTT G. ORTMAN, ANDREW H. F. CABANISS, JENNIE O. STURM, LUÍS M. A. BETTENCOURT | SCIENCE ADVANCES 20 Feb 2015: e1400066

Ancient Mesoamerican settlements obey the same scaling laws as modern cities despite vast differences in economy, technology and political organization.

Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

BY BENJAMIN I. COOK, TOBY R. AULT, JASON E. SMERDON | SCIENCE ADVANCES 12 Feb 2015: e1400082

Evidence suggests that Western North America will be drier at the end of the 21st century than any period of the last 1000 years

This is Homework 2 - Your trip to Balboa Park on a Sunday of your choice.  I've listed some of the upcoming Lawn Programs for you to choose from:

You must download this Form and fill it out by answering all the questions on the form:

Balboa Park Field trip to the House of Pacific Relations.pdf  This is your Homework 2 worksheet.

If you decide that you want to create an Excel file of your data, here is a quick description of how to do this.  Thanks to Sara Davidson of Inbound Marketing for putting these instructions online.

Creating an Excel File.pdf

Upcoming Lawn Programs for your Homework:

The next event for Balboa Park besides the Sunday open houses is the December Nights celebrations.  Each house will feature Christmas or Hanukkah decorations and traditional foods for this celebration.

I'll repost these next semester - too late for this semester!

Extra Credit - Earthquake Preparedness

Earthquake+Pocket+Sheet.pdf  

In Class Activities:

World Regional Geography Chapter 1 - additional Articles:

Koch Cash's Impact on the Global South

World Pop. Data Sheet

The Big Mac Index

United Nations Development Page

Mapping Skills

World Regional Geog - in class 1.doc   

In Class 1 Maps(1).pdf  

World Regional In Class 2.docx

World Regional Geography In Class 3.pdf

In Class 4 - Latin America.docx  

World Regional Geography In Class 5 Caribbean.pdf

http://lizardpoint.com/geography/caribbean-quiz.php  Test your knowledge on the Caribbean Islands map! 

World Regional Geography San Diego in maps.pdf

World Regional Geography In Class 6.pdf

In Class 7 - Southwest Asia and North Africa.pdf  

In Class 8 Europe.pdf

In Class 9 The Russian Domain.pdf 

In Class 10 Central Asia.pdf

In Class 11 - East Asia.pdf 

In Class 12 South Asia.docx

In Class 13 Southeast Asia.docx

In Class 14 - Australia and Oceana.docx

Poster Session Rubrics/Evaluation form

Poster Project Peer EvaluationGeography 104.pdf

Typhoon in Philippine - bad weather or climate change?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24901993

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-12/philippines-official-makes-emotional-plea-on-climate-change/5085778

Thank you, Daniel from Spring 2013 semester, for your YouTube video!

In class activity - Equador

http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/llilas/outreach/fulbright05/Husiak_FiveThemes.pdf