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GEOG
270 – Autumn 2007
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Geography
of Development and Environmental Change
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Lectures
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Topics |
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Week 1 |
9/26 (Wed) |
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9/28 (Fri) |
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Week 2 |
10/1 (Mon) |
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10/3 (Wed) |
Framing
the Over-population Problem + Film: Future in the Cradle |
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10/5 (Fri) |
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Week 3 |
10/8 (Mon) |
(Lecture given without
PowerPoint, due to technical problems.) |
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10/10 (Wed) |
Film: Not the Numbers Game |
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10/12 (Fri) |
(Instructor out
sick) |
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Week 4 |
10/15 (Mon) |
Consumption (No PowerPoint presentation.) |
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10/17 (Wed) |
Guest: Dr. Doug
Mercer “Consumption
and ‘Individuization’” |
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10/19 (Fri) |
Recap Population and Consumption (no PowerPoint) |
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Week 5 |
10/22 (Mon) |
Film: portions of An Inconvenient Truth |
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10/24 (Wed) |
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10/26 (Fri) |
Guest: Ms. Sarah Paige “Health Effects of Global Warming in the Third World” |
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Week 6 |
10/29 (Mon) |
Guest: Dr. Doug Mercer “Global Warming and the Governing of the ‘Commons’” |
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10/31 (Wed) |
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11/2 (Fri) |
Midterm review |
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Week 7 |
11/5 (Mon) |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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11/7 (Wed) |
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11/9 (Fri) |
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Week 8 |
11/12 (Mon) |
HOLIDAY |
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11/14 (Wed) |
Basics of GMOs Film: Deconstructing Supper |
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11/15 (Fri) |
Guest: Ms. Kacy McKinney Resistance to GMOs in Brazil |
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Week 9 |
11/19 (Mon) |
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11/21 (Wed) |
NO CLASS |
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11/23 (Fri) |
HOLIDAY |
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Week 10 |
11/26 (Mon) |
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11/28 (Wed) |
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11/30 (Fri) |
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Week 11 |
12/3 (Mon) |
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12/5 (Wed) |
Course Wrap-up: Theory, Politics and the Power of a Personal Response |
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12/7 (Fri) |
FINAL EXAM REVIEW |