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COURSE SYLLABUS

PATTERNS OF WORLD URBANIZATION

SUBJECT MATTER

GEOG 2165. Patterns of World Urbanization. (3) (O) Introduction to cities of the world including examination of cities within different culture areas as well as the internal structure of different cities within the context of traditional and innovative theories of development geography.

This course explores the spatial and historical patterns of world urban development. Major concepts of urban growth and development, globalization and world urbanism are developed and a number of world cities are examined within the context of eleven cultural regions. Urban, economic and social theory useful in efforts to understand the global patterns of urbanization are developed. Efforts to develop concepts of a world network of cities based on the world geography of global services are also explored.

GENERAL EDUCATION, AND SPECIFIC MAJOR AND MINOR REQUIREMENTS

1. It satisfies only one General Education requirement. It is designated as an O, or Oral Communication course. http://www.gened.uncc.edu/communication.htm
2. If you are completing an Urban Studies Minor, this is one of the approved courses.
3. Middle Grades Education Majors may use this course to satisfy a Background Requirement.
4. International Studies Majors may use this course to satisfy the advanced core requirement of Geo-political Awareness.

SPECIFIC STUDENT OBJECTIVES

1. world urban development to include concepts and history of world urbanization.
2. specific concepts of urban growth, development and structure .
3. key global concepts such as economic development, the global economy, and selected other economic concepts related to urban development.
4. the structure, historical evolution, problems and links to a global urban system of selected major urban concentrations within ten cultural regions of the world.
5. the concept of world cities as defined by the world geography of global services.
6. the location of the major urban concentrations and nation-states of the world.

TEXTBOOK OR READING MATERIALS REQUIRED

Brunn, Williams and Zeigler. Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development. 3rd Edition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.

Other readings will be assigned.

CONDUCT OF THIS CLASS

• CHEATING. Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices in any academic exercise. This definition includes unauthorized communication of information during an academic exercise. This includes the duplication of materials from other students even if it is with their consent. All work, except for that done as part of team authorized by the instructor in this class, must be your own. If you duplicate the work of others, even with their consent, you will receive a grade of zero on the work in question.
• FABRICATION AND FALSIFICATION. Intentional and unauthorized alteration or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise. Falsification is a matter of altering information, while fabrication is a matter of inventing or counterfeiting information for use in any academic exercise.
• MULTIPLE SUBMISSION. The submission of substantial portions of the same academic work (including oral reports) for credit more than once without authorization.
• PLAGIARISM. Intentionally or knowingly presenting the work of another as one's own (i.e., without proper acknowledgement of the source). The sole exception to the requirement of acknowledging sources is when the ideas, information, etc., are common knowledge. (NOTE: For more information regarding plagiarism, see PLAGIARISM.)
• ABUSE OF ACADEMIC MATERIALS. Intentionally or knowingly destroying, stealing, or making inaccessible library or other academic resource material.
• COMPLICITY IN ACADEMIC DISHONESTY. Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty

*Materials paraphrased directly from the UNC Charlotte Code of Student Academic Integrity with additional elaboration by instructor specifically for this class: http://www.legal.uncc.edu/policies/ps-105.html#II

SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE

• Attend all lectures — 70-75% of all test materials will come from lectures.
• Complete all quizzes, assignments and examinations.
• Evaluation of your class performance will be based on: Possible Points

  a. Class attendance (1 point for each class attended)	32
  b. Examinations (Two exams -- multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, matching and short answer/identification questions; 150 points for each exam)	300
  c. Comprehensive, take home, essay question in the final week of classes (Distributed on Tuesday, May 1; due on Tuesday, May 8)	18
  d. Map quiz (1 quiz for a total of 50 points) This is composed of three basic elements: Cultural Regions, Countries and Cities. Handout 2 contains a list of cultural regions, countries and major cities for which you will be responsible on the map quiz.	50
  e. Exercise 1. Designing a Trip to World Cities	100
  f. Presentations (1 solo, 1 group presentation for 100 points each)	200
  TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS	700

PROCEDURES FOR GRADING AND TAKING EXAMS

• Make-up exams or quizzes will be given only in event of an excused absence. All make-ups are scheduled for Tuesday, May 1st at 3:30 PM in Room 340. Since the exams are not comprehensive, failure to take either will result in automatic failure.
• If you need to reschedule an exam for personal reasons or because you have several exams on the same day, please speak to instructor. It can probably be arranged!!
• Grading is done on the basis of 10 point scale. For a total of 700 points:
  A = 90% --630     B = 80% --560      C = 70% --490      D = 60% --420
• • All exams are intended for the scheduled length of the period. If you need more time, please talk to the instructor at least one period before the test date. The final exam will be given during the regularly scheduled final exam period. It will not be comprehensive, however, there will be one comprehensive, take-home, essay question assigned during the final week of classes.

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

Syllabus with all the handouts is available for download in Word Document format.

The Handouts:
Handout 2 Map Quiz Study Guide (Word format)

Supplementary maps (Adobe Acrobat Reader):
Africa,
Eastern Asia,
Middle East,
North America,
South America,
Southeastern Asia,
Southern Asia

Exercise 1 (Word format).
Procedures and Content for Oral Presentations(Word format).

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