LEXINGTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Fall, 2004
• What: Lands and Peoples of the Non-Western World (GEO
160:002 and 160:401)
• When: 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. MW, 5:00-6:15 p.m. MW
• Where: OB 228, OB 305
• Credit Hours: 3
• Prerequisites: none
• Instructor: Rebecca C. Glasscock, Ph.D., 221 Moloney
Building
• telephone: 859-257-4872, extension 4079
toll free (if calling out of the area): 1-866-774-4872
e-mail: rcglas1@uky.edu
• LCC mailbox: 226 Moloney Building
• web site: http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/GEO/Glasscock.html
• Office hours: 1:00-2:30 pm (Mondays, Wednesdays)
5:15-6:45 pm (Tuesdays, Thursdays) or, by appointment
• Division Chair: David Wachtel, Ph.D.
230 Moloney Building, telephone: 257-4872, extension
4158
• Area Coordinator: Leon Lane, telephone: 257-4872, extension
4321
• Office Manager: Kim York, telephone: 257-4872, extension
4005
Textbooks and Materials:
• Rowntree, Les et al., 2003, Diversity Amid Globalization:
World Regions, Environment, Development: 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River,
New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
• Suggested: atlas of your choice
Course Description:
The geographic study of the conceptual and historical definition of regions
of the world as “Non-Western”. Global patterns of social, cultural, economic,
and political difference between the West and Non-West as well as the processes
key to the making of the Non-Western world (such as colonialism and imperialism)
are discussed. In addition, selected current issues of significance to peoples
in the Non-Western world, such as sustainable development, environment, human
rights, and gender relations, are considered.
General Education Course Specific Competency: Fulfills USP Cross-Cultural
requirement.
Course Learning Objectives:
To achieve these key learning outcomes, the course material will be targeted
toward helping students develop competency in the following areas. At the
conclusion of the semester, the student:
• Understands maps and is able to use maps and other geographic
representations to analyze world events and to suggest solutions to local
and global problems.
• Is able to describe the same place at different points
in its history and understand how history affects the present reality. Examines
the historic reasons for conflicts in particular places.
• Analyzes how changing conditions can result in a non-western
region taking on a new structure (e.g., the reshaping of southern Africa
resulting from the economic and political realignments that followed the
end of European colonialism).
• Understands why non-western regions once characterized
by one set of criteria can be defined by a different set of criteria today
(e.g., the Caribbean Basin’s transition from a major sugarcane and hemp producer
to a center for tourism).
• Understands the reasons for major changes in the world’s
political boundaries.
• Is able to identify places participating in past and
present regional/global alliances and to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages
of these alliances from the perspective of their member states.
• Evaluates past and present government policies designed
to change a country’s population characteristics and explains how government
population policies are linked to economic and cultural considerations.
• Understands how cultural factors divide and unite. Culture
characteristics may link non-western countries but may also promote political
conflicts between them.
• Is able to explain, based upon cultural differences,
why opportunities for women vary so greatly from place to place.
• Is able to formulate reasoned arguments regarding the
causes and geographic consequences of an international debt crisis. Evaluates
the advantages and disadvantages of allowing foreign-owned businesses to
purchase land, open factories, or conduct other kinds of business in a country.
• Understands the functions of the United Nations and its
specialized agencies in dealing with various global issues.
• Is able to assess the role and general effects of mercantilism,
imperialism, colonization, decolonization, and neocolonization on economic
and political development in the non-western world.
• Is able to explain the extent and geographic impact of
changes in the global economy on the lives of affluent people (in westernized
countries) and poor people (in non-western countries) in terms of the inequities
of urban life, resource use, and access to political and economic power.
• Understands the consequences of population growth or
decline in western and non-western societies in terms of both human and physical
systems.
General Education Competencies for “Lands and Peoples of the Non-Western
World,” a geography course meeting the USP Social Science Requirement:
• Communicate effectively
• Learning Outcome: Read with comprehension
• Course Objective: Understand the material
presented in textbooks and other readings. Be able to critically evaluate
the strength and weaknesses of arguments.
• Instructional Objective: Student understanding of material
will be evaluated via exams, homework assignments, in-class questions, and
a critical thinking essay.
• Learning Outcome: Listen with comprehension
• Course Objective: Follow, understand, and retain the
material presented during class periods. Be able to summarize material presented
orally and to connect it to written materials.
• Instructional Objective: Student understanding of oral
material will be evaluated via exams, homework assignments, in-class questions,
and a critical thinking essay.
• Think critically
• Learning Outcome: Integrate knowledge
• Course Objective: Be able to utilize a variety of sources,
from a variety of perspectives, to further geographic understanding.
• Instructional Objective: Student ability to integrate
varied information will be evaluated via exams, a critical thinking essay,
homework assignments, and in-class questions.
• Learning Outcome: Use logical thinking to draw
conclusions
• Course Objective: Be able to work through information
and varied perspectives to draw logical conclusions. Be able to articulate
the reasoning behind the conclusion drawn.
• Instructional Objective: Student ability to think logically
will be evaluated via a critical thinking essay, essay questions on exams,
and classroom discussion.
• Learn independently
• Learning Outcome: Find, evaluate, and use resources
effectively
• Course Objective: Successfully locate, use and document
appropriate articles and other written materials. These materials should
be specific to the topic, current, accurate, and detailed.
• Instructional Objective: Student ability to locate and
properly utilize source materials will be evaluated via a critical thinking
essay and homework assignments.
• Learning Outcome: Value new ideas and differing
perspectives
• Course Objective: Understand and appreciate unfamiliar,
as well as familiar, arguments, perspectives, ideas, information, and ways
of seeing the Non-Western world.
• Instructional Objective: Students will be provided a
diversity of cultural perspectives via classroom lecture and discussion,
readings, and videos. Student ability to understand other cultural perspectives
will be evaluated via exams, class discussion, assignments, and an essay.
• Examine relationships in diverse and complex environments
• Learning Outcome: Define the relationship of self
to historical and cultural context
• Course Objective: Understand how one’s own perspectives
are mediated by the cultural context. Understand how, as a result of varying
cultural experiences, people can have vastly different perspectives of life,
geography, and their places in the world.
• Instructional Objective: Students will be provided a
diversity of cultural perspectives via classroom lecture and discussion,
readings, and videos. Student ability to understand other cultural perspectives
will be evaluated via exams, class discussion, assignments, and an essay.
• Learning Outcome: Define the relationship of self
to the global community
• Course Objective: Understand that, although globalization
proceeds at a phenomenal pace, the diversity of the world’s peoples is still
extraordinary. Learn to appreciate the value of these diverse ways of being.
• Instructional Objective: Students will be provided a
diversity of cultural perspectives via classroom lecture and discussion,
readings, and videos. Student ability to understand other cultural perspectives
will be evaluated via exams, class discussion, homework assignments, and
a critical thinking essay.
Course Outline: The following is the class schedule. The test dates
and the date of the critical thinking essay assignment are firm. The schedule
of discussion topics is somewhat fluid and is subject to change
depending upon class interest, discussion, late breaking news, and other
factors.
August 25: Introduction to course
October 20: Critical Thinking Essay 2, Chapter 7
August 30: Introduction to non-western world
October 25: Chapter 7
September 1: Chapter 1 (Diversity Amid Globalization)
October 27: Chapter 10 (Central Asia)
September 6: Academic Holiday
November 1: Chapter 10
September 8: Chapter 1
November 3:Test 2
September 13: Chapter 2 (The Changing Global Environment)
November 8: Chapter 11 (East Asia)
September 15: Chapter 4 (Latin America)
November 10: Chapter 11
September 20: Critical Thinking Essay 1, Chapter 4
November 15: Chapter 11
September 22: Chapter 4
November
17: Chapter 12 (South Asia)
September 27: Chapter 5 (The Caribbean)
November 22: Critical Thinking Essay
3, Chapter 12
September 29: Chapter 5
November
24: Chapter 12
October 4: Test 1
November 29: Chapter 13 (Southeast Asia)
October 6: Chapter 6 (Sub-Saharan Africa)
December 1: Chapter 13
December 1 & 2: Make-up test (essay) TBA
October 11: Chapter 6
December 6: Presentation Essays 1-3 Chapter 13
October 13: Chapter 6
December 8: Chapter 14 (Oceania)
December 13: Test 3, OB 305, 5-7 pm (Sect 401)
October 18: Chapter 7 (Southwest Asia and North Africa)
December 15: Test 3, OB 228, 3:30-5:30 pm (002)
Course Requirements and Evaluation:
• Tests: Three tests will be given: test #1 (20 points),
test #2 (20 points), and test #3 (20 points). Tests are typically comprised
primarily of fill-in-the-blank questions, and may include map exercises,
critical thinking essay questions, short answer questions, and matching.
Tests are comprehensive (i.e., Test #2 will include questions from material
covered by Test #1, and Test #3 will include questions from material covered
throughout the semester). Information to help you review will be posted weekly
on the class' website (http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/GEO/Glasscock.html).
Make-up exams: Tests can be made up if you are granted an excused absence
(see Policy section).
• Homework, Class Participation, and Attendance (20 points):
• I expect you to come to class unless you are sick; there
is a family emergency; or an unavoidable, critical situation has occurred.
Should such a situation arise, I would appreciate a call or an e-mail message.
• I expect you to stay for the duration of the class unless
you speak with me prior to class and let me know why you must leave early.
• I will take attendance occasionally. I will ask you to
complete some homework assignments. I will ask you to participate in in-class
exercises. I will periodically give review quizzes. You must be in class
to participate. The in-class exercises cannot be made-up.
• Critical Thinking Essays and Presentation (four, at 5
points each, for a total of 20 points): The purpose of this assignment is
to: (1) increase your knowledge and understanding of the Non-Western World;
and (2) help you strengthen skills and increase confidence in your ability
to summarize ideas, think through issues, ask questions, recognize implications,
envision alternatives, and think creatively.
• You have some options in this area. You must complete
four of 6 assignments.
• Part I: Three times during the semester, I will provide
you with a list of several articles, available on the internet. You will
be asked to review and critique five of the articles. Write (and then type)
a two-page essay that, after a summary of the articles, provides a critical
analysis of the situation and the implications. For example, how do these
articles relate to concepts and ideas that we have studied in class? What
is the thread that connects the articles? How might the issues raised in
the articles be resolved? Late papers will be accepted, but with penalties
of 5% (if handed in at the end of class), 10% (one day late), 20% (two days
late), and so on. The essays will be graded on the basis of: (1) the apparent
effort you made; (2) the quality of critical thinking; (3) the way you approached
the question; and (4) the quality of the actual writing. Complete one to
three of these assignments.
• Part II: There will be various opportunities during the
semester to attend a geography-related public lecture, panel discussion,
film, or other public event. I will tell you about upcoming presentations.
If you want to attend a presentation that I haven’t mentioned to the class,
please check with me before attending. When you go to a presentation, stay
for the entire event (including the question and answer session). After the
event, write (and then type) a two-page essay that, after summarizing the
presentation, provides your critical assessment of the issues presented.
If a problem is presented, how might it be solved? What connections can you
make between the presentation and our studies in this course? The essays
will be graded on the basis of: (1) the apparent effort you made; (2) the
quality of critical thinking; (3) the way you approached the question; and
(4) the quality of the actual writing. Attend one to three presentations.
Final Grade: To pass the course, you must pass at least one of the
three tests, and you must have earned points, as follows: at least 90 points
for an A, 80 to 89 points for a B, 70 to 79 points for a C, 60 to 69 points
for a D, and fewer than 60 points is an E. You may keep track of how you're
doing in the course by plugging in your grades on the following matrix. To
track your grade, divide the number of points earned so far by the percentage
of the grade that is already accounted for. You must remember, however, that
your participation grade is not calculated until the very end of the semester;
it accounts for 20 points, so commit to doing your homework and coming to
class.
Your grade:
Multiply by:
Points
Test 1:
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Test 2:
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Test 3:
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Participation
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Critical thinking
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Critical thinking
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Critical thinking
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TOTAL __________
Policies:
• Do not pop/smack gum or eat noisy snacks during any class
period. Thank you!
• Excused Absences are defined in "Student Rights and Responsibilities"
as:
• illness of the student or serious illness of student's
immediate family
• death of a member of student's immediate family
• trips as members of student organizations sponsored by
an academic unit, including field trips for other classes and athletic events
• major religious holiday (student must notify instructor
in writing no later than the last day for adding a class)
• any other circumstance that the instructor finds reasonable
cause for non-attendance.
• Please note that the Student Rights and Responsibilities
booklet is now available on the Web at http://www.kctcs.edu/student/code.htm.
• Reasonable Accommodations: If you have a special need
that may require an accommodation or assistance, please inform me of that
fact at the beginning of the course or as soon as the special need is identified.
• Use the Pass/Fail option only for elective courses, not
for courses that are part of your University Studies Program (USP) requirements.
• Always do your own work. Avoid plagiarism and cheating.
Please review the following information.
2.3 Student Academic Offenses and Academic Sanctions:
When a student is believed to be guilty of any of the following four academic
offenses, information concerning disposition of the case by the college and
responsibilities of college personnel can be found in sections 2.5.2.1 through
2.5.2.3.
2.3.1 KCTCS Academic Offenses:
2.3.1.1 Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of presenting ideas, words, or organization of a source,
published or not, as if they were one’s own. All quoted material must be
in quotation marks, and all paraphrases, quotations, significant ideas, and
organization must be acknowledged by some form of documentation acceptable
to the instructor for the course.
Plagiarism also includes the practice of employing or allowing another person
to alter or revise the work that a student submits as the student’s own.
Students may discuss assignments among themselves or with an instructor or
tutor, but when the actual material is completed, it must be done by the
student and the student alone. The use of the term “material” refers to work
in any form including written, oral, and electronic.
All academic work, written or otherwise, submitted by a student to an instructor
or other academic supervisor, is expected to be the result of the student’s
own thought, research, or self-expression. In any case in which a student
feels unsure about a question of plagiarism involving the student’s work,
the student must consult the instructor before submitting the work.
2.3.1.2 Cheating
Cheating includes buying, stealing, or otherwise obtaining unauthorized copies
of examinations or assignments for the purpose of improving one’s academic
standing. During examinations or in-class work, cheating includes having
unauthorized information, and/or referring to unauthorized notes or other
written or electronic information. In addition, copying from others, either
during examinations or in the preparation of homework assignments, is a form
of cheating.
2.3.1.3 Student Co-Responsibility
Anyone who knowingly assists in any form of academic dishonesty shall be
considered as guilty as the student who accepts such assistance. Students
should not allow their work to be copied or otherwise used by fellow students,
nor should they sell or give unauthorized copies of examinations to other
students.
2.3.1.4 Misuse or Student Falsification of Academic Records
The misuse or actual or attempted falsification, theft, misrepresentation,
or other alteration of any official academic record of the college is a serious
academic offense. As used in this context, “academic record” includes all
paper and electronic versions of the partial or complete academic record.
2.3.2 Academic Sanctions/Penalties of Students (Academic
Offenses): Academic penalty shall not be imposed upon the student for non-academic
infractions of college regulations. This principle does not compromise the
right of the college to suspend or dismiss a student for non-academic reasons.
2.3.2.1 Faculty Academic Sanctions (pertaining to sections
2.3.1.1 to 2.3.1.3)
For instances of academic dishonesty related to earning grades (violations
2.3.1.1 –2.3.1.3), the instructor may implement any of three sanctions: A.
a failing grade for the specific assignment; and/or B. a reduced grade for
the course; and/or
C. a failing grade for the course. The specific sanction depends upon the
weight of the assignment in satisfying the requirements for the course. If
an instructor chooses the sanction which assigns a failing grade for the
course, the instructor shall notify the division chair, the chief executive
officer or designee, and the registrar. For more information about the role
of college personnel in the process, refer to section 2.5.2.
2.3.2.2 Other Academic Sanctions (pertaining to sections
2.3.1.4 and 2.3.2.1)
The instructor may also recommend that the student be suspended for any academic
offenses (as defined in sections 2.3.1.1, 2.3.1.2, or 2.3.1.3). Any student
found guilty of a second academic violation shall be expelled from the college
and shall not be allowed to enroll at any of the other KCTCS colleges for
one academic year. The minimum sanction for misuse or falsification of an
academic record (violation 2.3.1.4), including the omission of information
or attempted falsification or other misuse of academic records as described
in section 2.3.1.4, is suspension for one semester.
EOA: Lexington Community College is an Equal Opportunity Institution.