Geography 150

Instructor: Ron Davidson

Syllabus for MW Class

Syllabus for F class

Readings:

Rowntree Chapter 2: The Changing Global Environment

Diamond, "Yali's Question", and "Zebras, Unhappy Marriages and the Anna Karenina Principle", "Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes", "The Lethal Gift of Livestock:"

Denevan, "The Pristine Myth"

Arias, "Guatemala 1954 -- Funeral for a Bird"

Scott, "The High Modernist City"

Diamond, "Malthus in Africa" (**Only print this one chapter!!)

Achebe, "Girls at War"

Said, "Orientalism"

Hedayat, "Abji Khanom"

Powerpoints:

Global Environment Powerpoint

Latin America Powerpoint

Sub-Saharan Africa powerpoint

Middle East powerpoint

Ignore the links below:

East Asia powerpoint

Tuan, "A View of Geography"

"Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About": visit the website at http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/07/index.shtml and click the 2007 "List of Stories"

Rodney, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"

Mishima, "Patriotism"

"15 Stories" assignment

"15 Stories" map