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Fall 2024: Syllabus and Schedule
Syllabus Outline:
Course Overview
Course Goals and Learning Outcomes (Objectives)
Course Netiquette
Course Requirements
Course Delivery and Organization
Your instructor, course staff, and course advisor Units
Supplemental videos Review quizzes
Assessments Quizzes
Writing Assignment
Mid-semester self evaluation Course Policies
MSU privacy statement (and use of course materials) Academic honesty
Plagiarism
Spartan Code of Honor Attendance Policy
Grading
**Fall 2024: Semester: Schedule**
Course Overview:
Economic Geography is a survey of the global economy from a spatial perspective. In other words, this course explores the connections between economies, patterns of economic activity, and variation in levels of economic development and prosperity, in the context of location and place. There are three overarching course themes that will be woven throughout the material in this course: globalization, uneven development,and place. To gain a better understanding of these macro-level themes, we will explore many aspects of the economy and economic activity, including the distribution of physical and human resources, transportation networks, business practices, new business formation, and where production and consumption take place, at multiple scales (local,regional, national, and so on). In these investigations, we will also consider the historical, cultural, and institutional context of economics and economic activity.
Course Goals and Learning Outcomes (Objectives):
Goals
The purpose of this course is to:
1. Introduce students to the study of economic geography, including the approaches, methods, tools, and vocabulary.
2. Broaden students' knowledge and understanding of economics, economic systems, principles, and practices, at multiple scales, local, regional, national, and international.
3. Cultivate an appreciation of the diversity in economies, economic systems, activities, and landscapes around the world, and how those landscapes are interrelated.
4. Develop students' geographic perspective and provide opportunities for them to place local and global events in a geographic context (at various scales).
5. Foster critical thinking about local and global events and phenomena, and the assessment of how those events might influence the economy, and economic activities, of locations based on levels of economic development and economic conditions there.
Learning outcomes (objectives)
By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
1. Describe the spatial variation in different components of economic development and activities and the factors that contribute to the pattern we observe on the landscape.
2. Describe some of the major political, social, and economic ideologies and systems, and the ways in which each has developed over time.
3. Define and use common terms associated with the study of economic geography from the more general, like place, scale, and state, to the more sub-discipline-specific terms, like neoliberalism, spatial fix, and means of production.
4. Evaluate how the spatial distribution of economic activities and development changes over time and space and be able to discuss potential causes for that change.
5. Define globalization in the context of the economic landscape, describe the technological
advancements andinstitutions that facilitate a global economy and provide some examples of connections,interactions, and exchanges that take place on a global scale.
6. Explain how globalization and capitalism contribute to patterns of uneven socioeconomic development at various scales and be able to identify signs of uneven development on the landscape.
7. Explain the increasing importance of trade and foreign investment in the global economy and the role of the state in facilitating trade and investment relationships with other countries and/or regions.
8. Describe the increasing importance of fi nance in daily life and how that significance can
negatively impact the various actors in an economy including people, fi rms, and governments.
9. Describe the negative impacts of economic development and activities can have on the
physical and cultural environment at various scales and the role of producers and consumers in mitigating these negative impacts.
10. Identify major events in the history of the global economy and explain the factors that
contributed to the occurrence of those events and the effects those events had on specific economies, locations and/or regions.
11. Research topics related to economic geography and draw connections between the material presented in the course to events and happenings that take place in the world as well as personal and life experiences.
Note: If you wish to explore the basic geographic concepts covered in this course in more detail,
we recommend taking Human Geography (Geo151), Physical Geography (Geo206), or a regional geography course, such as Regional Geography of the United States (Geo330), Africa (Geo338), Europe (Geo336), Asia-Pacific (Geo227), Middle East (Geo339), and more, offered by the
Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University.
An entirely online course is different from a traditional, in-person course. In an online course, the only contact you are likely to have with your instructor and others in the class is through email, social media, and chatrooms/discussion forums. In general, this system works very well and some students even prefer it because they can ask questions freely without feeling intimidated. That same feeling of freedom can also be negative, particularly because some students feel that they can be disrespectful toward others. That said, most students make an effort to respect others and their opinions. We ask that you make a special effort to be one of these respectful people.
Students who make inappropriate comments will be warned the first time by email. Upon the second offense, you will be asked to discuss the matter with Juliegh Bookout. REMEMBER: THE ONLY BASIS YOUR INSTRUCTOR HAS FOR GRADING AND DISCUSSIONS ARE THROUGH YOUR WORDS ON A COMPUTER SCREEN. The instructor has no other context in which to understand your thinking.
Therefore, it is important to be concise, informative, and polite while talking with your instructor and other students in the class.
● Text:
○ There is no required textbook for this course. A copy of the recommended text is on reserve in the MSU Main Library.
● Technology:
○ Computer, high-speed internet connection, web browser (preferably Google Chrome or
Mozilla Firefox), applications/plugins, etcetera (see the Help-Setup page for details). Use of other browsers may lead to D2L malfunctions.
○ Each unit has associated videos to supplement the topics covered in the readings; you are responsible for the content in the videos. All of the videos are available on YouTube at no cost.
● General:
○ Complete each unit. You are responsible for watching videos and completing the readings, including all of the associated components.
○ Take the quizzes and submit assignments on or before the scheduled due date/time.
○ Check your mail.msu.edu account at least once daily for emails from your instructor and
course staff. If you need to, please set your Michigan State account to forward your emails to an account that you do check frequently. All course emails will be sent to your Michigan State
(mail.msu.edu) account only via the D2L learning management system.
○ It is recommended that you spend the same amount of time on this course as you would on a traditional lecture course; this includes both classroom time and study hours. According to the University, as a general rule, students budget a minimum of 9 hours attending and working on a 3-credit course each week during a full semester (even more during an abbreviated summer session).
Course Delivery and Organization:
While a team of Geography faculty and staff manages the course, an instructor teaches your section. Moreover, this course is delivered through a series of online units that include lesson readings, news articles, map/images, videos, and other online media delivered through the D2L learning management system. Course assessments are accomplished through online quizzes and assignments.
Your instructor, course staff, and course advisor
Juliegh Bookout is the instructor. Ms. Bookout is responsible for the day-to-day management of this course, including grading all assignments and assessments, responding to any content questions you may have, answering any questions about how to work through the course, and issuing final grades. ALL email correspondence should go to Juliegh Bookout.
Meicheng Shen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University, and she will be assisting with the course this semester. You will occasionally receive emails about the course, the assignment in particular, from Ms. Chen.
Units
This course content consists of online units (left-hand column in the table below). All units can be found in D2L.
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Unit/Topic |
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Introduction to Economic Geography - What is Economic Geography? - Place, Space, and Scale |
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Approaches to Economic Geography - Early Perspectives in Economic Geography - Positivism, Spatial Analysis, and the Quantitative Revolution - Marxian Economics and the Geographical Political Economy - Modern Divisions of Thought in Economic Geography |
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Geographies of Production - Driving Forces of Production - Spatial Division of Labor |
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The State - Functions of the State - Varieties of Capitalism - New Regionalism |
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Finance Part 1: Personal Finance and Financial Exclusion - Personal Finance - Uneven Geographies of Finance |
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Finance Part 2: Evolution of the Global Financial System - Central Banks - Globalization of the Financial System |
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- Financial Crises, Crashes, and Cycles - Financialization of the Economy |
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Geographies of Development - Entities Involved in Economic Development - Measuring Development - Economic Growth versus Economic Development - History of Economic Development - Theories of Economic Development - The International Debt Crisis - Success of Economic Development Efforts |
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Global Production Networks - Commodity Chains - Global Production Networks - Investment, GPNs, and Regional Development Outcomes |
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Urban Agglomeration, Innovation, and Creativity - Cities and Agglomeration - Knowledge Work and the Creative Class |
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Economic Geography and the Environment - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - The Environment and Economic Development - Approaches to Economy-Nature-Society Relations - Carbon Democracy and Energy Transitions |
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Alternative Economic Geographies - Modes of Production - The Need for Alternatives - Looking Beyond Capitalism |
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Consumption and Retail - Consumption - Commodities and Retail - Global Cultures and Local Variations - Online Retailing |
Each unit contains several videos that support ideas presented in the readings. Most videos are short clips explaining a concept or the application of a concept in the real world. These videos are housed in each unit in a folder called Videos. Please be sure to watch the videos and take notes as some content is not repeated in the lesson readings.
Each graded quiz has an associated review quiz for you to use to prepare. It will be available for you to take as many times as you need. The purpose of the review quiz is to help you assess (for yourself) what you have learned, to get accustomed to quiz questions, and to get used to taking online quizzes in D2L. Review quizzes are not graded. Completing review quizzes can (and will) only help you on a graded quiz and will demonstrate to your instructor that you are interested in learning the course material.