June 19, 2005
Course syllabus set
Folks, I have finalized the syllabus and requirements for the course. Please make sure that you visit the course webpages. If you checked them out earlier, and even printed them out, please revisit them and make note of the changes (that is why until now they had the word "tentative").
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About the Texts
Two of the three textbooks required for this course are not the conventional ones for the subject; in fact, there is a good chance that some of you are wondering what "Nathaniel's Nutmeg" and "The Silk Road" have to do with international trade and transportation.
Well, hold your horses right there! If you have scanned through the pages of those two books, you may have already found immensely rich and historical discussions related to trade and transportation. Yes, they are historical--the silk road stories going back quite a few centuries.
I chose these books not only because they are very well written but also because of the short, six-week nature of summer school. I suppose that exciting stories are needed to truly engage summer school students.
It will also be an extremely interesting view of international trade and transport--even today we talk about "globalization" as if it is entirely new, while Milton and Wood tell stories of international trade that are centuries old.
Allen Scott raises some interesting questions regarding the future--particularly the prospects for poorer regions. Scott's book is a "traditional" academic textbook, with all the usual academic language. But still, you can't find that many academic texts in the social sciences that are only 160 pages long, eh!
It is essential that you keep up with the assigned chapters from these texts.
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Welcome to GEOG 418 Online
Folks:
I suppose you are all set to start the online course? Well, ready or not, here we are :-)
Scanning the roster, I notice three familiar names: Tony, Francesca, Jen. I think I have met/talked with Andrew; I recall remarking that he looks very much unlike the politician Andrew Young, and apparently almost everybody tries the same (lame) joke! Is it the same Andrew Young that I had talked to?
Anyway, to kind of ease all of us into a "cyberclassroom" mode, will each of you please introduce yourselves by emailing the class at geog418@wou.edu?
BTW, remember that geog418@wou.edu will distribute your emails to all of us; if you want to email me specifically, then email me at khes@wou.edu.
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