GEOG 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Texas Central Railway, Mary Austin Holley, John Wesley Powell
23 Feb 2017
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We will talk about important cities in the u. s. Grades based on 3 exams and 2 quizzes, 2 writing assignments (4pg. s long) Quizzes= attendance and easier (points for name etc. ) Study guides and maps for each lecture on ecampus! Think in terms of maps- study the mapsssss. Textbooks present a mass of isolated facts , we don"t understand the meaning or signi cance of geography since it is taught in a dry as dust fashion. It has no animating principle of life not treated as part of a process or pattern. Geography like history, provides a strategy for thinking" about large and complex topics -donald w. meinig (we will talk more about him) The site of old plain, marked by hilltops, will long be visible to the skilled eyes of a geography -john wesley powell (led rst expedition to take boats through the grand.
