ClassInfo - Spring 2017 Geography Classes

Spring 2017 | GEOG 1502 Section 001: Mapping Our World (50508)

Instructor(s): Sara Nelson
Ashwini Srinivasamohan (TA)
Sophia Strosberg (TA)
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Completely Online
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Online Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Off Campus

Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2025
(Tentative) Fall 2024
(Tentative) Spring 2024
(Tentative) Fall 2023
(Tentative) Summer 2023
(Tentative) Spring 2023
(Tentative) Fall 2022
(Tentative) Summer 2022
(Tentative) Spring 2022
(Tentative) Fall 2021
(Tentative) Summer 2021

Course Catalog Description:: Fundamental issues related to acquisition, storage, manipulation, analysis, display, and interpretation of spatially-referenced data. Emphasizes mathematical analysis of data, interpretation of cultural/physical patterns critical to development of geographical reasoning.
Class Description:: INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Steve Manson We will learn about mapping our world by understanding how maps work, making our own maps, mapping virtual worlds like Facebook, and understanding how people use maps to tell stories and lies. Along the way, we will see how mapping is a useful lens through which to understand interactions between technology and society. This class fulfills TWO LE requirements, the Social Sciences Core and the Society and Technology Theme.
Grading:: 15% Midterm Exam
15% Final Exam
15% Special Projects
10% Class Participation
45% Laboratory Evaluation
Exam Format:: Exam Format: Exams are multiple choice and offered during the semester (in other words, no final exam). The two-page lab project is done in the final weeks of the course.
Class Format:: 30% Lecture
20% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
30% Web Based
Workload:: 10-15 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50508/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 8 May 2014

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