Summer Online

Globalization and the Industrial World

GEOG 132--Four Quarter Hours

Dr. David C. Brooks
Shannon Hall 357
Ohio University--Eastern Campus
740-699-2509
brooksd@ohio.edu

Please refer to the complete final course syllabus available on the course Website once the course begins.

Course
Description

Survey of selected geographic themes: development; people and resources; human and physical environments; and cultural patterns in Anglo-America, Western and Eastern Europe, the former USSR, Japan, and Australia.

Prerequisites

Not GEOG 141

Methods of Course Instruction

This course is being taught completely via the internet.  All course materials and assignments are provided through the Blackboard site for this course.  (Blackboard can be accessed through the “Home-Page” of the Ohio University’s Eastern Campus)  Your interaction with the instructor should be primarily through e-mail; however, he will also be available to talk by appointment on the phone and/or by regular correspondence.  The course material (information you need to learn) will be gained by reading the material in the assigned textbook and viewing the power-point slides and videos.  Other than the three written proctored exams, all other assigned coursework must be submitted electronically through direct e-mail (brooksd@ohio.edu) to the instructor.

Course Objectives

GEOG 132 is the second course in a two course survey of World Regional Geography.  GEOG 132 is designed to provide an overview of globalization in the industrial world. After covering two chapters common to both GEOG 131 and GEOG 132, the following regions will be examined by GEOG 132 in some depth: North America, Europe, The Russian Domain, East Asia, and Australia and Oceania.

Among the specific concepts and models that the student should understand after completing this course are the following:

  • The dynamic tension between diversity and globalization and its relevance to the study of geography
  • Region as a geographic concept
  • Cultural as an important component of geography
  • Vital statistics (birth, death, and growth rates)
  • The Demographic Transition
  • Migration as a dynamic force on the globe
  • Urbanization
  • Themes in political geography, including nation-state, centrifugal and centripetal forces, boundaries and frontiers, colonialism and international and supranational organizations
  • Economic development indicators
  • Social development indicators

General Course Requirements

Three Proctored Exams and Chapter and Video Essay Assignments.

Materials

Required

Text(s)
Globalization and Diversity, Geography of a Changing World 2nd Edition, by Rowntree, Lewis, Price and Wyckoff: published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2008 (ISBN: 0-13-175695-8).

Blackboard course software includes Power-Point outline slides for each chapter, along with World Regional Geography Videos. Additional support information (Including sample tests) is available on the publisher’s web-site for the adopted textbook.



Note: The books for the course are in stock at College Bookstore, (740) 594-3505. Click here for online ordering.

Exams
Requirements

3 exams - Proctoring required

How are exams to be taken: traditional proctored tests; closed textbook with no notes allowed.

Dates of Exams
The dates of the exams are to be determined.

Students will also complete and submit by e-mail, seven required 600-800 word chapter essays and three 600-800 word video reaction papers.

Call the Ohio University Online Staff at 1-888-551-6446 if you have questions about this course or the enrollment process.


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