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Syllabus GEOG 3000 - RESOURCES MANAGEMENT Instructor: Dr. Michael D. Lee Winter 2004 Edition: Section 01 |
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Catalog Description: The earth as a source of land, water, biotic, mineral and energy resources. The role of human populations in their use, development and exploitation. |
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ANNOUNCEMENTS – Monday January 5th,
2004:
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WELCOME TO
THIS CLASS!
Course Objectives:
To provide you with a broad introduction to major issues facing society today in the field of natural resources management and resource allocation. To focus your attention on the key resources on which we depend, and often take for granted, and how they are used. To assist you in developing sufficient insight so that you may critically question and assess our resource use practices and judge whether or not they are sustainable. To highlight some important concepts and options for our common future at the local, national and international levels
Learning Outcomes:
· You will develop a solid understanding of some of the key natural resources that the modern world depends upon and how and where they are created and processed.
· You will understand the principal ways in which natural resources are exploited and used and the broad economic, ecological and political basis and implications of those uses.
· You will understand the dynamics of global population change, per capita resource consumption trends, and their implications for resources management.
· You will be capable of viewing modern resource uses in a critical manner to appreciate both the geographical and temporal dimensions of different factors that determine their future sustainability.
· You will apply and improve your research, writing and critical thinking skills by focusing on a particular natural resource of your choice and the local, regional and global factors important in its exploitation.
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In this course, you will be expected to think critically and read around the subject. You will be asked to do a lot of reading and be expected to have read the listed chapters and pages by the class date listed on the topic schedule below. Your views, comments and suggestions are welcomed because they will enrich this course. You must complete all assigned tasks to receive a final grade. Any evidence of deliberate plagiarism, in other words the wholesale copying of a classmates’ work or of a published source and its presentation as your own, will result in your receiving zero. Any time you use a piece of information from a source, you must diligently reference where it came from and list the full citation at the end of your text. If you have any problems with the course material, with an assignment, or in attending all the classes, please see me individually during my office hours or by appointment. All work presented to me must be printed or typed and your names should be written on the back page only.
Please use the following format from the Geographical Review when making your citations (e.g. Goin 1991) of sources in your text. Do not use footnotes for references. Cite them in the text (e.g. White and Limerick 1994) and then include the full reference in a bibliography.
Book
(full title, including any subtitle):
Goin,
P. 1991. Nuclear Landscapes. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University
Press.
Coauthored
book:
White, R., and P.N. Limerick
1994. The Frontier in American Culture. Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press.
Journal article (in this example,
a journal that has undergone a title change):
Lewis P. 1978. Book, Tube
and Picture: Being an Appreciation of Peter Speir’s Illustrated Books for
Children. Pioneer America [Material Culture] 10 (2): 198-207.
Chapter in an edited book (a
reprint, with the original date of publication in square brackets):
Olson, C. 1974 [1964]. A
Bibliography on America for Ed Dorn. In A Bibliography on America for Ed
Dorn, Proprioception, and Other Notes & Essays, edited by G. Butterick,
113-119. Bolinas, Calif.: Four Seasons.
Newspaper
article (if no author, cite the name of the newspaper; for example, Economist):
Pae,
P. 1994. Asians Find Peace in New Cemetery. Washington Post, 3 July, §B,
1, 5.
For
Web Pages, use the following (if no author, cite the entity hosting the Web
Page and responsible for content, for example, UNDP and provide the date on
which it was cited):
UNDP 2003. Human Development Report 2002. < http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2002/en/>, New York, NY: United Nations Development Program, (April 14, 2003).
The course is mostly a lecture format. Information presented in the classes will come from a variety of sources and therefore you should plan to arrive on time and attend each class taking summary notes of important concepts and data. You are expected to prepare yourself by consulting the readings ahead of the scheduled classes as well as going to the library to consult journals, newspapers and current affairs magazines for up-to-the minute information on natural resource issues. You will be asked to look at selected Internet sites during the course to improve your natural resource knowledge and awareness. All class visuals developed by me for this course will be placed on the worldwide web on my webpage. You will be shown step-by-step how to get this material off the web. You may print your papers on the reverse of reused, scratch paper if you wish.
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Evaluation and Grading Procedures:
You can earn a maximum of 100 points for this course. There will be five-six short question homeworks, each associated with the major course themes. These short answer questions are designed to test your overall command of the readings and will collectively be worth 25 points. Your essay assignment will be worth 25 points, the midterm exam 25 points, and the final exam 25 points. Exams will comprise four medium answer questions of about ¾-1 page in length from a choice of six. The final exam will cover only the second half of the course. Grading for assignments, tests and exams will be based on my general expectations combined with relative standards within the class group. Your final grade (A-F) will be decided based on the 100 point total. Those of you who want to try and raise your expected grade will have the option to complete an additional written assignment between the final class and exam, worth a maximum of 10 extra points. It will be graded very strictly and will not use the standard A-F percentages. Poor efforts can expect to get between 0 to 2 extra points whereas excellent efforts might receive 8 to 10 points. Turning in of late assignments, or exams will result in an automatic 5% deduction from the grade for each class delayed. Assignments and exams can be emailed or faxed to me to avoid this penalty should you be unable to come to class on the scheduled day for handing in work. The course is worth 4 units of credit.
Grade
Table:
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A |
Excellent work, generally top 10-20% of class (depending on overall standard). (A- = 90-92, A = >=93) |
90-100% |
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B |
Good work, average to above average achievement. (B- = 80-83, B = 84-86, B+ = 87-89) |
80-89% |
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C |
Adequate work, average to below average achievement. (C- = 70-73, C = 74-76, C+ = 77-79) |
70-79% |
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D |
Pass, but below average achievement (D = 60-65, D+ = 66-69) |
60-69% |
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F |
Fail, inadequate work compared to expectations. |
<60% |
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C/NC |
Credit requires attainment of C- or higher (i.e. >= 70%). |
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I/WU |
Incompletes: You will be issued with an incomplete (I) if you fail to complete enough work to be given a fair grade, and where this is justified on grounds of illness, bereavement or other extenuating circumstances approved by the instructor. This work must be made up at a later date to receive an A-F grade. Where insufficient work is submitted to calculate a final grade and no instructor approval has been secured, an unauthorized incomplete will be given (WU). This work cannot be made up and thus the WU is equivalent to an F (see CSUH catalog). WU's are normally given to students who fail to withdrawal yet never actually come to class or stop coming to class part way. I do not drop you from this class; you must do so yourself. |
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Grades will be determined in a spreadsheet and will not be rounded up; therefore a 92.8, for example, will be an A-, an 82.7 a B-, and so forth. No curve will be used with this class, instead the proportion of grades will be determined by the relative capabilities of the current group of students compared to my expectations and the performance of past students with similar materials and assignments. Historically, the proportion of A's has been anywhere from 10-20% of the class. F's will be given when appropriate.
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The following assignments are due on the dates indicated. Click underlined text to get copy of assignment handed out in class on scheduled date (will not be posted/underlined until then).
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Assignment |
Points |
Due Date |
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Assignment Title: Midterm (take-home) |
25 |
2/16/04 |
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For example homework questions and answers Click Here |
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Assignment Title: Homework 1 (Questions only) |
4-5 |
1/21/04 |
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Assignment Title: Homework 2 |
4-5 |
2/4/04 |
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Assignment Title: Homework3 |
4-5 |
2/11/04 |
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Assignment Title: Essay |
25 |
2/27/04 |
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Assignment Title: Homework 4 |
4-5 |
3/3/04 |
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Assignment Title: Homework 5 |
4-5 |
3/12/04 |
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Assignment Title: Homework 6 |
4-5 |
3/17/04 (before 12:50pm) |
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Assignment Title: Final (take-home) |
25 |
3/17/04 (before 12:50pm) |
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Assignment Title: Extra Credit |
+0 to +10 |
3/17/04 (before 12:50pm) |
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The following are required readings, the specific pages listed in the topic schedule below.
· Chiras D.D., Reganold J.P. and Owen O.S., 2002. Natural Resource Conservation: Management for a Sustainable Future. New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, Inc. 8th Edition.
The following books will be used as reference and selective reading materials in this class also. If you wish, you may purchase them from the bookstore or the Student Union or, more economically and sustainably, you can download them from the worldwide web as .pdf documents.
· World Resources Institute, 2000. World Resources 2000-2001 People and Ecosystems: The Fraying Web of Life Washington D.C. : World Resources Institute. (available online at http://www.wri.org/wr2000.)
· World Resources Institute, 2003. World Resources 2002-2004 Decisions for the Earth: Balance, Voice and Power. Washington D.C. : World Resources Institute. (available online at http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_description.cfm?PubID=3764)
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Expected topic
schedule, date and required readings
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CLASS TOPIC |
REQUIRED and RECOMMENDED readings |
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1/5 |
Introductory issues: what is a resource? |
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1/7 |
Resources and sustainability – foundations of a sustainable future |
CR&O Ch 1&2. WRI 2003 p1-22. |
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1/9 |
Ecology, ecosystems and resource trade-offs with our environment. |
CR&O Ch 3. WRI 2001 p1-42. |
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1/12 |
Human population and the demand for resources. |
CR&O Ch 4. |
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1/14 |
Population dynamics and factors affecting fertility. Hwk 1. |
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1/16 |
Land and agriculture: some basic concepts of land as a resource. Essay Assignment. |
CR&O Ch 5. WRI 2001 p53-68 |
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1/19 |
University Closed – Martin Luther
King Jr. Day |
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1/21 |
Land and agriculture: feeding the world |
CR&O Ch 6. |
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1/23 |
Land and agriculture: soil as a renewable resource. |
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1/26 |
Land and agriculture: sustainable farming systems. Hwk 2. |
CR&O Ch 7&8. WRI 2001 p149-162. |
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1/28 |
Water resources: watersheds and water sources. |
CR&O Ch 9. WRI 2001 p103-118. |
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1/30 |
CR&O Ch 10. |
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2/2 |
Water resources: managing and conserving supplies. |
WRI 2001 p193-211. |
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2/4 |
Water resources: water pollution problems. |
CR&O Ch 11 |
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2/6 |
Water resources: water pollution prevention. Midterm Exam (take-home). Hwk 3. |
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2/9 |
Atmospheric resources: urban air pollution. |
CR&O Ch 18. |
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2/11 |
Atmospheric resources: acid precipitation. |
CR&O Ch 19. |
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2/13 |
Atmospheric resources: global warming. |
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2/16 |
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2/18 |
CR&O Ch 14. WRI 2001 p87-102. |
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2/20 |
WRI 2001 p181-192. |
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2/23 |
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2/25 |
Energy resources: types and origins. |
CR&O Ch 21. |
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2/27 |
Energy resources: demand for energy. Essay to be handed in for grading (by 11:50am). |
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3/3 |
CR&O Ch 22. |
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3/5 |
Energy resources: renewable energies. Hwk 5. |
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3/8 |
Waste as a
resource. Final Exam (take-home). |
CR&O Ch 17. |
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3/10 |
CR&O Ch 20, p599-600. |
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3/12 |
Wrap-up. Extra Credit
(take-home). |
WRI 2003 p215-228. WRI 2001 p302-307. |
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3/17 |
Final Exam and
Extra Credit to be handed in for grading (by 12:50pm). |
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This course is worth four (4) units of credit.
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