Course Requirements Geography 401 (Drs. Kaldjian & Vogeler) Fall 2011 Kaldjian GEOG 401 OFFICE HOURS CLASS SCHEDULE Submitting Assignments. All assignments must be completed and submitted through D2L electronically as PDF documents by midnight of the day before the class for which they are due. Use your last name, followed by the number of the project (such as in Kaldjian #1.pdf) to identify your assignments. Grading assignments: Your work in this course will be graded on content, organization, clarity, creativity, syntax, grammar, diction, and format. For examples of writing format and style, use these web links: The Professional Geographer and the AAG's Annals. These journals follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (Physical geographers may also want to be familiar with the stylistic requirements of the Geological Society of America). CLASS PARTICIPATION (5%) Participation: Simply attending class is insufficient; you need to be actively engaged in class discussions, computer lab work, and field trips. You will need to have read and critically reflect on the assignments before class, and then share your thoughts with fellow classmates during class discussions. ASSIGNMENTS Each assignment (after the first one!) must include the material from the previous assignments. The current assignment must appear first, and the previous assignments appear farther down. Use bold-faced headers to identify each assignment. Assignment #1: Geographical Approaches (5%) Summarize and evaluate the major geographical traditions and approaches as they are discussed in the assigned readings for this assignment. Discuss the place of your work in it. Use bold-faced header titles for each major idea in your paper. Be sure to reference the relevant citations. Assignment #2: Geographical Concepts (5%) Summarize and evaulate the major geographical concepts which are expressed in the Geographical Standards from the readings. Group them under each of the major geographical approaches and traditions from Assignment#1. Be to reference the relevant citations. Assignment #3: Your Data with Geographical Approaches & Concepts (5%) Describe the data that you are going to use for your project in this course. Provide considerable detail and give examples, and then relate your data to the geographical traditions (Assignment#1) and concepts (Assignment#2). Assignment #4: Your Project & the Literature (10%) Use the information from the previous three assignments to find scholarly articles, chapters, books, and reports on your topic, in general and in particular. Provide an annotated bibliography. Use the conventions of the Annals. Use these web sites for how to do this: UNC, Cornell, Wisconsin, and UCSC. Be sure to include all previous assignments at the end of your paper. Assignment #5: Your Research Questions (5%) State the general and specific research questions and/or hypothesis for your project. This will be based on your thoughts after reviewing the literature on your topic, the geographical traditions, and concepts. Be sure to include all previous assignments at the end of your paper.Course Requirements Geography 401 (Drs. Kaldjian & Vogeler) Fall 2011 2 Assignment #6: Your Project Outline (5%) Combine all the previous assignments into one document. Use appropriate headers and sub-headers, tables, diagrams, maps, and references. This will form the structure of your written paper and the fundamental elements for your PowerPoint. Assignment #7 Preliminary PPT (10%) Submit you preliminary PowerPoint based on all the readings, assignments, and discussion that we have had in this course. Assignment #8 Draft of Complete Project Paper (10%) Submit your preliminary but complete paper project, as a WORD document, which will of course include materials from all the readings, assignments, and discussion that we have had in this course. Assignment #9 Present Final Powerpoint (20%) The Powerpoint (and the final written paper project) will use the same concepts, data, research questions, findings, and bibliography as you have been developing. Oral presentation is one important way of communicating the results. Assignment #10: Final Project (20%) The final paper project is due on the day of the Final Examination. This is another important and more lasting way of communicating the results, one that allows more detail, explanation, critical review and