Course calendar

Week 1
T 03/31: Introductions.
R 04/02: Overview of geography's histories. Discussion of topics for Student-directed class sessions. Reading: Holloway, chapter 1 (Heffernan) and chapter 2 (Richards), pages 3-50. Recommended: Preface and Acknowledgements, pages xiv-xviii.

Week 2
T 04/07: Overview continued. Discussion of topics and scheduling for the Student-directed class sessions. Reading, Holloway, chapter 3 (Johnston) and chapter 4 (Blunt), pages 51-91.
R 04/09: Individual work and consulation. See the Student-directed class sessions page for details.

Week 3
T 04/14: What is geography? Reading: Castree, chapter 1 (Johnston) and chapter 2 (Viles), pages 11-38. Recommended, Castree, Acknowledgements and Introduction, pages xii-xiii and 1-5.
R 04/16: Scale: the local and the global (Hannah Thoman). Reading: Holloway, chapter 12 (Herod), pages 229-247, and on e-reserve: Marber, Peter. Article 13: "Globalization and Its Contents." Global Issues 07/08, 52-57, edited by Robert M. Jackson. Iowa: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, 2008, and Naim, Moises. Article 16: "The Five Wars of Globalization." Global Issues 07/08, 65-70, edited by Robert M. Jackson. Iowa: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, 2008.

Week 4
T 04/21: What makes geography a science? Reading: Castree, chapter 4 (Castree), chapter 5 (Harrison), and chapter 6 (Hickey and Lawson), pages 57-114.
R 04/23: Physical systems (Alyssa Marquez). Reading: Holloway, chapter 14 (Kennedy), pages 267-279, and on e-reserve: Roland Jansson and Mats Dynesius, "The Fate of Clades in a World of Recurrent Climatic Change: Milankovitch Oscillations and Evolution", Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 33 (2002): pages 742-744, and A.M. Mannion, "Global Environmental Change: The Causes and Consequences of Disruption to Biogeochemical Cycles", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 164, No. 2 (July 1998): pp. 168-172.

Week 5
T 04/28: What should geographers study? Reading: Castree, chapter 7 (Burt) and chapter 8 (Rhoads), pages 117-150.
R 04/30: Space: the fundamental stuff of geography (Lauren Kennedy). Reading: Holloway, chapter 5 (Thrift), pages 95-107, and on e-reserve: Nigel Thrift, "Space", Theory, Culture & Society 23:2/3 (2006): 139-155 and David Londey, "The concept of space", The Philosophical Review 64:4 (Oct 1955): 590-603.

Week 6
T 05/05: What is reality for geographers? Reading: Castree, chapter 9 (Hannah) and chapter 10 (Curry), pages 151-185.
R 05/07:Landscape and environment: natural resources and social development (Brenna Susee). Reading: Holloway, chapter 16 (Simmons), pages 305-317, and on e-reserve: Urban, Michael, Rhoads, Bruce. "Catastrophic Human-Induced Change in Stream-Channel Platform and Geometry in an Agricultural Watershed, Illinois, USA" Annals Of The Association Of American Geographers 93:4: pages 783-796.

Week 7
T 05/12: What are ways of 'doing' geography (I)? Reading: Choose three (3) from: Castree, chapter 11 (Orford), chapter 12 (Demeritt and Wainwright), chapter 13 (Herbert, Jacqueline, and Myers), chapter 14 (Dorling), and chapter 15 (Graham), pages 189-273.
R 05/14: Time: change and stability in environmental systems (Kelvin Vaughan). Reading: Holloway, chapter 7 (Thornes), pages 131-150 and on e-reserve: Sangeeta Sonak, "Global Environmental Change: An Overview" (pdf), from http://www.teriin.org/, 19 pages.

Week 8
T 05/19: What use is geography? Reading: Castree, chapter 16 (Rogers) and chapter 17 (Castree), 277-307.
R 05/21: Landscape: biophysical processes, biophysical forms (Mark Barnes). Reading: Holloway, chapter 15 (Spedding), pages 281-303, and on e-reserve: Monica G. Turner, "Landscape Ecology in North America: Past, Present, and Future", Ecology, 86: 8 (Aug, 2005): pages 1967-1974.

Week 9
T 05/26: Place: management of sustainable physical environments (Seth Webb). Reading: Holloway, chapter 10 (Gregory), pages 187-208 and on e-reserve: David N. Cole and Peter B. Landres, "Threats to Wilderness Ecosystems: Impacts and Research Needs", Ecological Applications, 6:1 (February 1996): pages 168-184.
R 05/28: Social formations (Joseph Graves). Reading: Holloway, chapter 13 (Katz), pages 249-265 and on e-reserve: John Tirman, "The Future of the American Frontier", The American Scholar Winter 2009, 4 pages.

Week 10
T 06/02: Space: physical geography (Jennifer Gage). Reading: Holloway, chapter 6 (Kent), pages 109-130 and on e-reserve: Tim Unwin, "8.2 Space - time and geography", The Place of Geography, New York: Longman Scientific and Technical (1992), pages. 194-205.
R 06/04: Landscape and environment: representing and interpreting the world (Douglas Taylor). Reading: Holloway, chapter 17 (Morin), pages 319-334, and on e-reserve: Rebecca Solnit, "Walking after midnight", chapter 14 in Wanderlust: A History of Walking, pages 232-244, New York: Penguin Books. Assignment of End of the term essay.

Finals week: End of the term essays due by 4:00 pm on R 06/11. Details TBA.