Geography Journal
GEOG 201-501 --- Fall 2006 --- Dr. Prout

Journal details:

• The primary purpose of this exercise is to have students express themselves over topics brought up during lecture. Anticipated topics include globalization, environmental change, and even landscape description from videos. The secondary purpose is to give students an opportunity to write, which hopefully leads to better writing skills.

• The Journal is worth 300 points or 30% of the total points that will be used to calculate semester grades.

• The Journal will consist of ten entries (30 points each); each entry has a minimum word count of 500.

• Journal topics will be announced during class, and they are due one week later for full credit. Late entries will be subjected to point deduction. All entries (on-time or late) must be submitted by December 1st.

• Journal entries will be submitted “electronically" via the TurnItIn.com website.

• Journal will be graded on a rubric of full & complete; on-time; non-plagiarism; written comprehension.


Part One / first half of semester:
 
1. Globalization                                                                                    due 9/11
            Argue for or against globalization
            Or discuss the arguments.
 
2. Population                                                                                        due 9/20
            Describe the enormity of world pop. growth
            Describe your own migration history.
 
3. Maps and Atlases                                                                            due 9/29
            Geography and Maps; map reading;
            Country description
 
4. Cannibal Tours                                                                                 due 10/2
            React to the movie
            “Nothing is as strange as a stranger in a strange land.”
 
5. Culture                                                                                                due 10/6
           Cultural Preservation
           Rumantsch speakers in Switzerland
 

Part Two / second half of semester:
 
6. Urga                                                                                              due 10/27
          React to the movie
          Landscapes / Modernization

7. Chapter theme analysis                                                           due 10/30
          Pick a theme or discussion point from Ch. 7 or Ch. 8
          and elaborate and/or critique
 

{See HANDOUT for details: 8, 9, 10, & extra}

8. Midterm Elections                                                                         due 11/17
 
9. Terrorism                                                                                         due 11/17
 
10. A Day without a Mexican                                                          due 12/1
 
Extra Entry: "Course/Learning evaluation"                                due 12/1

Turning it in at TurnItIn:
(1) Create a user profile
            Go to the website:  http://www.turnitin.com

            Follow directions:

                        log-on name is a valid email

                        and password is of your choosing
(2) Register for our class (course name =);
                   Class ID = 1555988
                   Enrollment code = humanity
(3) Submit according to the due dates and correct assignment.

            (4) Save an electronic copy as well as a hard copy of all your writing.