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Welcome to Students in Geography 207

Guide through 207 Class Materials, Procedures & Facilities

(URL: http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/207/welcome207.html)
2002 Course Description: This course introduces you to basic concepts, frameworks, explanations, analytical tools and information resources in Economic and Business Geography. Introductory overviews are presented in the context of selected current issues at local to global levels. Through a small number of assignments (to be integrated into your "portfolio"), we also have specific opportunities to relate these ideas and skills to your personal, academic or professional interests.

Upon completion, you should have a basic understanding as to how society organizes its economic activity in space, how interregional differences in economic well-being may come about, and how such processes affect your own daily life and professional plans. You should have developed some basic conceptual and research skills useful for pursuing interests not just in geography but also in all other social sciences, business, urban planning and other fields. You will have had opportunities to learn how information is organized and accessed, via the Internet and other modes.

In addition to expanding your information skills, you will be exposed to various modes of inter-personal communications and collaborative teamwork mainly in the context of your discussion assignment and the development and presentation of your contribution which becomes part of your portfolio.

WILLKOMMEN to Geography 207! These web pages, your "mildly" accented instructor and "Economic Geography" which you have selected for this 5-credit class, may all look and sound somewhat ominous. Thus, before I take you through any other class materials, give me a chance to put aside your anxieties.

follow an automated sequence of slide-like screens (with very introductory statements), click here!. Otherwise, ---> On your tour of the most important 207 Web pages, you may wish to start with the course objectives; these objectives are largely content-oriented. You will find an overview of the content in the outline & calendar for this class. This outline/calendar also contains the readings (mostly due on Tuesdays). You may then wish to have a look at the list of texts for Economic Geography classes to discover that our text has a lot of competition and that there are excellent "second opinions" on this list. Most of them are prohibitively expensive; most of them can be found "On Reserve" in the Undergraduate (OUGL) Library. In addition to the text (Stutz), you may want to "adopt" a book or two for such second opinions or as a source of wisdom for your more specialized interests which may not be treated in sufficient depth in any of the general 207 texts.

While the objective of this brief statement is to provide you with an early opportunity to get an overview of "Economic Geography", it also provides an occasion to think about your own interests in this class which, in turn, should be the basis for some of the assignments and your portfolio. The creation of this portfolio will be happening throughout the quarter and will be the basis of a brief presentation during the last week.

Before I go any further, I am sure you want to know more about how your performance in this class will be evaluated. There is a brief statement (also about expected Class attendance) and a more extensive account of my evaluation and assessment policy.

All concerns and general questions
related to Geography 207, its Internet and Lab components, and its requirements and assignments, MUST always be first
brought to the attention of the instructor.
See him after class or in his office (Smith 416B),
or send him an E-mail (econgeog@u)
or fax (206-543-3313)

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