GEO 3001 Announcement Blog

With an exam coming up in two weeks you need to start working on your study guides!

That is all.

Just because I haven't announced them in class the last couple days, that doesn't mean the readings are still supposed to happen.

For Thursday, please read WD 7, GEO 13.

The talk I keep mentioning is:

Thursday, at 2 p.m. in MARC Pavilion, Timothy Oakes on “Adventures in Frontierland: The Place of Utopia in China’s Campaign to Open Up the West”

Also, you can see the first part of the study guide for the second exam has shown up online.

Finally, my 3:30-5 office hours on Thursday, as I will be attending a job candidate's lecture at 4. Thus, I will only be in 3:30 to 4. As usual, when I reduce office hours, you can catch me from 6:30 to 7:45 as a make up.

By literature, I mean what area of geography the article is contributing to.

Let me give an example I just sent over email. A student was having trouble finding the literature an article contributed to. So I went the abstract -- which is a good place to look to figure out where the author thinks the article is contributing -- and found the following "We use this reading to reconsider the connectivity between disease, nation and identity in a world that is increasingly fluid, mobile, anxious and uncertain." So for this, I would say the authors are contributing to geographic literatures on disease (health), national/nationalism, and identity. Look for similiar sentences in your abstracts.

...for a journal article, the following:

Author, title of article, journal title, volume number, issue number, pages, year.

The order these things appear in is left up to you depending on which citation style you use.

So for example:

Writer, Jane. "An Article I Wrote." Geography Journal. Vol. 4, Issue 2. pgs. 403-457. 2004.

I have had a couple students who were directed to the 7th floor of the library to find journals by librarians. This is wrong. They are found on the 3rd floor.

Also, if you want to access the articles electronically, while you are on campus, go to the library catalogue http://fi.aleph.fcla.edu/F?RN=922617386, and click on the "Journals and Serials" link, which is just below the blue stripe which runs all the way across the screen. Then type in the name of journal. If you are off campus, you have to log into the proxy server first, by clicking on the "Connect from Home" link on the library front page, following those instructions, and then going to the catalogue.

The instructions for the full research assignment (not just the proposal) are up on the Assignments Page.

Also, I have a lunchtime meeting that may go over into office hours today. So, to make up for that, you can catch me from 6:30 to 7:45 Tuesday for extended office hours.

Overall, people did quite well. I put a curve on from the third highest score -- that person missed four points, thus everyone had four points added (including the two who received a perfect score).

The class average was 102.5 points, or 85.4%.

The grade breakdown is as follows (about half who sat the test received A or A-):

14 = A
4 = A-
2 = B+
3 = B
2 = B-
2 = C+
1 = C
1 = C-
1 = D+
3 = D
2 = F

Already, today's lecture is up in the usual place. Also up is the research assignment proposal, under the "Study Guides and Assignments" link from the teaching page.

This weekend, I will post the class average and breakdown by grade for the test once I have them all graded. Also look for full instructions for the research assignment at some point (and perhaps I might add a few other geography journals for you to look through if you want).

When filling out the study guide in preparation for our review session, I noticed a problem with a question.

Please note that under the Development: It Ain't Just Something Done by Kodak Lecture, question #16 should read the following:

In what ways has develop often been experienced on the periphery, what do many periphery thinkers consider “underdevelopment” to be, and what is the difference between dependency theory and post-modern/post-colonial theory? (know well, along with 9 & 10, next section)

I forgot to put "dependency theory" in the original question. I apologize, because the question as it was written was WAY too hair splitting to be worth your time answering.

My bad.