CLASS TOPICS
AND PRIOR
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TUESDAY
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Mary Gates Hall
12:30 - 2:20
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THURSDAY
231
Mary Gates
Hall
12:30 - 2:20 |
FRIDAY'S
DISCUSSIONS
(ONLINE)
"5th Hour"
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Other Learning Opportunities:
SPECIFIC EVENTS
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Week 1: What in the World do
Economic Geographers do?
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Study-Skills Workshops
UW Study Workshops & Information Sessions
Introduction to HTML (UWired)
UWIRED Computer Support & Workshops for Students
SACG Walk-In Workshops
April 12:
AWG Meeting at Everett CC
(incl. Students)
WebPublishing Workshops
CSSCR
Computer Courses
Computer Support for Students
Library Computer Classes
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Stutz Text:
"Preface"
xi-xii and chapter 1
(pp.4-27 and
43/44)!
Process & Logistics!
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Tuesday, April 1
Introduction
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Thursday, April 3
Introduction - Continued
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Friday, April 4
Personal Introduction (due:
by Friday night + 24hour "grace period") |
Please
use the introduction form (Click!)
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Week
2: Conceptualizing the "Real World"
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Stutz Text:
38/9 [Production
possibilities]
165-72
[Transport costs]
332 [Accessibility]
345-49
[Weber principles]
278-81
[Scale (dis)economies]
363-5
[Again: Scale economies]
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Tuesday, April 8
Due:
Economic Geography: 1937, 1963, 1998
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Thursday, April 10
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Friday, April 11
Due:
Discussion Contribution | Form
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Week 3: Economic Geography of Time and Economic Change
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Stutz Text:
187-8 [Time-Space Convergence]
329-31 [Periodic Markets]
538 [fig 12.3: Three Sectors]
383-6 [Industrial Evolution]
62-67 & 75-80
[Pop. Change]
Skim the
Stutz readings for weeks 9
& 10 ["Technological Change" & "Development"]
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Tuesday, April 15
Due:
Geographic Information Literacy:
Outline & Beginnings of a Resource
Page
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Thursday, April 17
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Friday, April 18
Due:
Discussion
Contribution
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Week 4: Measuring Regional Economic Structure
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Hoover & Giarratani,
Introduction to Regional Economics:
Chapter 9, Section 9.1 (only), "The Nature of Regions"
Stutz Text:
79-82: Demographic Characteristics
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Tuesday, April 22
Due:
Population Pyramid |
Thursday, April 24
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Friday, April 25
Due:
Discussion
Contribution
OR
Attendance at the
Friday Colloquium:
Dick Conway, "Forecasting the Regional Economy in Times of
Uncertainty," at 2:30 in 304 in
Smith Hall.
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April 23:
Time of Reflection
Employer Panel (April 23)
SPRING FAIR: Careers, Internships & Summer Jobs
April 24 (2-6)
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II. Location Studies |
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Week 5: Location, Location, Location! Does Location
Matter?
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Stutz Text:
344-67 [Manufacturing] (Review)
308-13; 315-16 [Market areas]
262-269
[Land-Use]
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Tuesday, April 29
Due:
Location Quotient
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Thursday, May 1
Midterm-Quiz
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Friday, May 2
Due:
Discussion
Contribution
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May 3 (Sat):
Career Transitions Workshop, 9-4
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Week 6:
Cities: Urban Spatial Organization & Economic Functions
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Stutz Text:
(1)Intra-Urban:
101-2 [Exurban migration]
281-2 [Spatial Bidding]
265 [Bid rents]
282-4
[Where people live]
284ff. [The urban firm]
191 &
299 [LULU,
NIMBY, NIMTOO, BANANA?]
289-304
[Spread&Sprawl]
(2)Urban Functions & IT
333-5 [Urban Hierarchies]
284 [Basic & Non-Basic]
335-40 [Smart Cities]
Cities as Centers of Innovation [Norton:
"Strategic Cities" 2000] |
Tuesday, May 6
Due:
Location Game
(Big &
Small)
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Thursday, May 8
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Friday, May 9
Due:
Discussion
Contribution [Services!!]
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III. Spatial Interaction, Interdependence &
Organizational Complexity |
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Week 7:
Linkage Systems: Communications, Transportation, Trade, Financial Flows &
Migration
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Stutz Text:
173-181 [Networks]
474-79
[Composition of World Trade]
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Tuesday, May 13
Due:
Rent Functions
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Thursday, May 15
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Friday, May 16
Due:
Discussion
Contribution
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Undergraduate
Research
Symposium, Fr 5/16/03, Noon-5 in MGH
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Week 8:
Spatial Organization of Production in the New Economy
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Stutz Text:
86 [Demography of the firm]
208-12 [Flexible factory & IT]
368-381 [Corporate
structures]
446-450 + p.468
[Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) & Mergers]
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Tuesday, May 20
Due:
Network Exercise
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Thursday, May 22
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Friday, May 23
Due:
Discussion
Contribution
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IV. Technology and Geographic Change
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Week 9:
"High-Tech" Activities and Regional Development
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Stutz Text:
96-101 [Innovation & Flexible
Economy]
381-3 [Product cycles]
193-218 [Personal Mobility]
335-40 [Smart Cities]
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Tuesday, May 27
Due:
My Organization's
Geographic Disclosures [and this optional form]
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Thursday, May 29
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Friday, May 31
NO "DISCUSSION" (In view of next week's
Portfolio)
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Week 10:
Toward a Synthesis: Processes of Regional Economic Development
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Stutz Text:
436-46
[Factor Conditions: Capital]
528-550
[Development]
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Tuesday, June 3
Due:
Final Portfolio with Resource Page
and Concluding Statement
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Thursday, June 5
Portfolio: Peer Evaluation
Attendance Positively Required!
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Friday, June 6
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Geog Undergrad Symposium,
Friday 6 June 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
in the Collaboratory (415 Smith Hall) (lunch from noon-1:20).
[We encourage all majors, especially seniors, to deliver
an individual or group project; all other students are encouraged to
attend]
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Official Examination Schedule
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Official
Finals: Thurs. June 12,
10:30-12:20;
No Exceptions
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