GEOG 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jared Diamond, Food Security, Agricultural Productivity
Document Summary
General information: office hours, tuesday 12-12:45 and 3-4pm, bunche 1251, the format of lectures, jared diamond (9-11:50pm, the history of how the differences in regions developed, skewed towards asia. 60% of people in the world live there. Two most populous countries in the world: no textbook (readings, do readings for viewpoint not necessarily detailed viewpoints, mostly modern. 50-85 pages per week: participation (25%, weekly mini paper (25%) 1 page: on readings, discuss/reflect/say what you saw as takeaway/significance. Thursday @7pm this week, then mondays @7pm: midterm (25%) Short answer & essay: final exam (25%) If you have above 95% you can write a research paper instead. Consider: where are you from, you can assume a lot about someone based on where they live. Food security, income, access to education, etc: the privilege of living here, how old are you, world events that you are alive for change your viewpoint greatly, he was alive for the beginning of the war (pearl.
