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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC
MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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D. Gagan
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Chair, Senate Committee on Academic Planning
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University College of the Fraser Valley!
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Simon Fraser University
Date: ?
April 11, 1996
Action undertaken at the meeting of the Senate Committee on Academic Planning on
April 3, 1996 gives rise to the following motion:
Motion:
"That Senate approve and recommend to the Board of Governors
as set forth in S.96 -
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approval of the following courses to be
offered at University College of the Fraser Valley
GEOG 433-4 ?
Geography of Selected Regions
GEOG 481-4 ?
Directed Studies"
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?
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OFFICE OF THE DEAN
FACULTY OF ARTS
MEMORANDUM
To: ?
Ron Heath
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From:
Andrea Lebowitz
Secretary, SCUS
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Chair, FACC
Subject-
University
College of the
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Date: ?
30 January, 1996
Fraser Valley - Two new
Geography Courses
The Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee, at its meeting of January 25, 1996
approved the attached two new Geography courses, submitted by the University
College of the Fraser Valley. The Department of Geography has approved both of
these courses.
Would you please place these items on the agenda of the next meeting of S.C.U.S.
Thank you.
Andrea Lebowitz
Chair, FACC
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Subject: New UCFV courses
Date: 5 Oct., 1995
Please bring the proposals for new UCFV courses: Geog. 433-4 (Selected Regions)
and Geog. 481-4 (Directed Studies) to FACC for approval. These courses have the
unanimous support of my Department (in fact, they appear very similar to some of our
own offerings).
Thank you,
Bob Horsfall
Chair, Geography UGSC
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE FRASER VALLEY
COURSE INFORMATION
DISCIPLINE/DEPARTMENT: GEOGRAPHY
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IMPLEMENTATION DATE: 1996
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Revised:_______________
GEOGRAPHY 433
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Geography of Selected Regions
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SUBJECT/NUMBER OF COURSE
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DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
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UCFV CREDITS
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
A study of the geographical character of a selected region
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RATIONALE:
To apply the tools of geographical analysis to the patterns and problems of a specific region an advanced level
will require the integration an
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use of knowledge and skills introduced at earlier levels.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
At least 60 credit hours including 8 hours of 300/400 level geography courses.
COURSE COREQUISITES:
HOURS PER TERM ?
Lecture ?
45 ?
hrs
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Student Directed
FOR EACH ?
Laboratory
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hrs
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Learning ?
hrs
TUDENT
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Seminar ?
30 ?
hrs ?
Other - specify:
Field Experience
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hrs
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hrs
TOTAL ?
75
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CeoE 433 - Geovanhy
of Selected Rep-ions
NAME
&
NUMBER OF COURSE
SYNONYMOUS COURSES:
replaces
(course
#)
Note: The content of the course will vary dependent upon the region
selected and the instructor but will always consider aspects of the
physical environment, economic and cultural and political geography
of the region. Attached is the course outline for when the selected (a)
region is Latin America.
(b) cannot take
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for further credit
(course
#)
SUPPLIES/MATERIALS:
TEXTBOOKS, REFERENCES, MATERIALS
(List reading resources elsewhere)
Blouet, B.W., and Blouet, O.M., Latin America and the Caribbean: A systematic and Regional Surve
y
. 2nd ed. New
York: Wiley, 1993. (required)
Course Pack available at the book store (required)
OBJECTIVES:
1.
To investigate selected themes in the geography of Latin America to enhance student's grasp of geographical analysis
as it applies to past and present questions and problems.
2.
To describe the transformation of the physical environment in the development of agricultural systems, resource
development and natural hazard patterns.
3.
To describe current and past demographic settlement and cultural patterns.
4.
To develop an appreciation of economic and political patterns and problems common to Latin America
METHODS:
Lecture/Seminar format
Lectures will introduce topics which will be explored in the seminar through student discussion of
assigned readings and student presentations.
STUDENT EVALUATION PROCEDURE:
Mid-Term Examination
20%
Final Examination
25%
Seminar Assignments
15%
Book
Review
20%
Term Paper
20%
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Geoz 433 - Georay
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y
of Selected Rep-ions
NAME
&
NUMBER OF COURSE
COURSE CONTENT
1. Perception of Latin America
- treatment by foreign media
- travellers report
rom Cortes to tourist guides
2. The geography of well - being
- population: numbers and hues
- distribution of resources, goods and services
- current demographic trends
Readings: Text, Chapters
5
and 7
3. The transformation of the earth
- the physical scene
- a history of occupance and use
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- cultural ecology of prehispanic agricultural and cultural landscapes
- impact of Discovery and Conquest
- the Colonial Landscape
- Modernization
Readings: Text, Chapters 1 through 4
4. Facing the 2lstcentury
- urbanization
- rural adjustment
- economic development strategies
Readings: Text, Chapter
6
5.
Political and Cultural Questions
- political revolution and reform
- changing role of religion
- environmental questions
- the global economy
Readings: Text, Chapters
9
through 13
6. Summary
Readings: Text, Chapter 8
Library Resources:
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General
Blakemore, H. and C.T. Smith, (eds), Latin America: Geographical Perspectives. 2nd ed.
London: Methuen, 1983.
Collier, S., et al (eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the
Caribbean. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1985.
Gilbert, A. Latin America. London and New York: Routledge, 1990.
James, P.E., and C.W. Minkel, Latin America. 5th ed. New York: Wiley, 1986.
Odell, P.R., and D.A. Preston, Economies and Societies in Latin America: A
geographical interpretation. London: Wiley, 1973.
Richardson, B., The Caribbean in the Wider World. 1492 - 1992. Cambridge:
Cambridge U.P., 1992.
West, R.C., and J.P. Augeui, Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples. 3rd ed.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1989.
Section One: Perception of Latin America
Cortes, H. Letters from Mexico. New Haven: Yale U.P. 1986.
Darwin, C. Journal of researches during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle". London:
Collins, 1908.
Economic Panorama of Latin America.
Goodwin, P. (ed),_Global Studies: Latin America. 6th ed., Guilford, CN: Dushkin,
1994.
Humboldt., Alexander von, Political essay on the Kingdom of New Spain.. Norman Ok:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.
Section Two: Geography of Well Being
Lowenthal, D.,West Indian Societies. London: Oxford U.P., 1972.
Sanchez-Albornez, N., The Population of Latin America. a history. Berkeley: U of
California Press, 1974.
Scheper-Hughes, N., Death Without Weeping: The violence of everyday life in Brazil.
Urrea, L., Across the Wire. Life and hard Times on the Mexican Border. New York:
Anchor Doubleday, 1993.
Wolf, E.R., and E.C. Hansen,
T
he Human Condition in Latin America, New York:
Oxford U.P., 1972
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Section Three: Transormation of the Earth
Butzer, K., (guest editor), The Americas before and after 1492: Current Geographical
Research. special edition Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 82,3,
September, 1992.
Crosby, A.W. Ecological Jmperia1i
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1966.
Denevan, W. M., The Native Population of the Americas in 1492. 2nd ed., Madison: U
of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Gibson, C. The Aztecs under Spanish Rule, Stanford: Stanford U.P., 1964.
Sauer, C.O, The Early Spanish Main. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1969.
Simpson, LB., Man
y
Mexico& Berkeley: U of California Press, 1961.
Viola, H.J., and C. Margoles, Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial Commemoration.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
Section Four: Facing the 21st Century
Gates, M., In Default: Peasants. the debt crisis and the agricultural challenge in Mexico.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
Gilbert, A., The Latin American Cit
y
. London: Latin American Bureau, 1994.
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In Search of a Home. Tucson, Ariz: U of Arizona Press, 1993.
Knapp, G., Andean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics in Ecuador. Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 1991.
Lisansky, Migrants to Amazonia: Spontaneous Colonization in the Brazilian Frontier.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
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Morse and Hardoy, Rethinking the Latin American City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University, 1992.
Rudel and Horowitz, Tropical Deforestation: Small farmers and land clearing in the
Ecuadorian Amazon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Schmink and Wood, Frontier expansion in Amazonia. Gainesville: University of Florida
Press, 1984.
Ward, P., Mexico City: The production and reproduction of an urban environment.
Boston: OK Hall, 1990.
Wilken, G.C., Good Farmers. Traditional Agricultural Resource Management in Mexico
and Central America. Berkeley: U of California Press,
1985.
Section
Brandon,
Five:
G., Santeria
Political
from
and
Africa
Cultural
to the
Questions
New World,
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Bloomington IL: U of Illinois
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Press, 1993
Canclini, N.G., Transforming Modernity, Popular Culture in Mexico. Austin TX: Univ.
of Texas Press, 1993.
Goodman, D. and A. Hall, (eds.), The Future of Amazonia: Destruction or Sustainable
Development. New York: St. Martins Press, 1991.
Hecht, S. K., and Cockburn, A., The Fate of the Forest. New York: Harper, 1990
Momsen, J.H, and V. Kinnaird, (eds.), Different Places. Different voices. Gender and
development in Africa. Asia. and Latin America. London and New York: Routledge,
1993.
Naya (ed.) Lessons in development: a comparative study or asia anu Latin i-meuua.
San Francisco: International Center for Economic Growth, 1989.
Rakowski, C. Contrapunto: The informal sector debate in Latin America. Albany NY:
SUNY Press, 1994.
Stoll,
D.,
Is Latin America Turning Protestant? Berkeley: U of California Press, 1990.
Teitel, S (ed.), Towards a new development strategy for Latin America: Pathways from
Hirschman's Thought. Washington: Inter-American Development Bank, 1992.
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COURSE INFORMATION
DISCIPLINEThEPARTMENT:OGRAPHY
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IMPLEMENTATION DATE: JAN 1996
Revised:__________
GEOGRAPHY 481-4
SUBJECr/NUMBER OF COURSE
Directed Studies
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
4
UCFV CREDITS
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Designed for upper level geography students who wish to continue research started in
conjunction with
an
earlier course.
RATIONALE:
To allow advanced study in specialized topics for students who have completed geog 480.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Permission to enter requires written consent of both the faculty member supervising the
student and the department head.
COURSE COREQIJISITES:
HOURS PER TERM
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Lecture
?
hrs ?
Student Directed
.
FOR EACH
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Laboratory ?
hrs ?
Learning ?
75 hrs
STUDENT
?
Seminar ?
hrs ?
Other - specify:
Field Experience
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hrs
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__________ ?
hrs
TOTAL ?
75
HRS
MAXIMUM ENROLMENT:_
Is transfer credit requested?
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Yes
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No
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Geoa 481-4 -
Directed Studies
NAME
&
NUMBER OF COURSE
SYNONYMOUS COURSES:
(a)
replaces
(course
#)
(b)
cannot take
?
?
for further credit
(course #)
SUPPLIES/MATERIALS:
N/A
TEXTBOOKS, REFERENCES, MATERIALS (List reading resources elsewhere)
Dependent
upon research topic.
OBJECTIVES:
1.
To formulate a topic for research.
2.
To develop a
bibliography related to topic.
3.
To discuss and choose appropriate methodologies and techniques for topic selected.
4.
To apply methods and techniques to selected topic and produce an appropriate project (usually on extensive paper).
METHODS:
1.
Weekly discussion with faculty advisor and other appropriate resource persons.
2.
Preparation of major assignments.
STUDENT EVALUATION PROCEDURE:
1.
Formulation, of research question 101/6
2.
Bibliography ?
20%
3.
Weekly discussions
with
faculty advisor
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20%
4.
Projectlpaper ?
50%
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