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1 UPDATED 11 March: abstracted Outline assignment is available here. NOTE: THIS COURSE IS NOT ON D2L. GEOG 3810 (01): Geography of Europe SPRING 2016, course ID # Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays 09:00 09:50, Hagg-Sauer 245 Mark Lawrence, Ph.D. Office: Hagg-Sauer 239 Office hours: M F 11:30 13:30, T&H 11:00 12:00

2 English by birth, Welsh by conviction, Lancastrian by choice, British by chance. N. Davies, 1999 Asia begins at the Landstrasse. Metternich, 1820s The challenge today is to fit the political geography of Europe to its natural geography- the Viennese must finally learn that Prague is a city to the northwest and not in the East. Instituts für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa, 2002 Of Europe obviously nobody knows anything exactly. Herodotus, 5 th Century BCE DESCRIPTION AND RATIONALE: While the impacts of European history- simultaneously magnificent but brutal- are unavoidably met in every part of the globe today, what precisely is meant by Europe has never been very clear. To be sure, much of this opacity has been willful (as has nearly everything about what America means), but it turns out that even the geographies of Europe- physical, economic, cultural, political, and human- likewise remain even today in many ways mysterious. This is so even as the rise of a so-called European Union has presented significant challenge to the decline of American hegemony since the end of the Cold War in Certainly, insofar as Americans are either descended directly from European settlers or those they colonized, enslaved, or otherwise dispossessed globally, the changing fortunes of Europe- that is, the ways in which the Old World is now becoming New again- should be of concern to all students of this course. What is Europe today, and who is European? For that matter, where is Europe, and what differences do its specific geographic assets and liabilities make? COURSE GOALS 1. To assess the unique character of Europe s environmental issues. 2. To appreciate the diversity of European regional cultures. 3. To understand the social, political, and economic impacts of Cold War division and post-cold War union in Europe. 4. To consider the demographic outlook for contemporary development in various regions of Europe. Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 2

3 The News From Europe (15%) Research Paper (25%, 10 full pages minimum) Exams (each 12%, 60% total) Absolutely no late work will be accepted for credit. Class participation counts for 15% of the final grade. To this end, at least five times during the semester, you need to turn in a typed response (at least 2 pages) to The News From Europe in the form of a news article from some part of Europe covering events of the previous week. Since you are expected {a} to attach the article to your response, you need to do more than merely repeat the story, {b} explaining the background as necessary for those unfamiliar with the details (and providing a full bibliography of sources used for research), and {c} providing at least three questions for possible discussion relating the particular story to general trends in European affairs (i.e., not answerable from within the article). Only European news dailies or weeklies can be used. The schedule below clearly indicates when the News From Europe is due. Each completed assignment is worth up to 3% of the final grade and you may complete more than five assignments (i.e., 6 or 7) for the same amount of credit. The Research Paper, worth 25% of the course grade, involves writing about a topic of your choice (but only with an instructor-approved précis) that fits within one of five frames to be described in a separate handout. Because this essay amounts to so much of the final course grade, it is composed of several elements due at different times: a précis (2%) due Monday, 25 January; an annotated initial bibliography (4%) due Friday, 11 March; an abstracted outline (7%) due Monday, 28 March; and a final draft (12%) due Friday, 22 April. Handouts will be supplied explaining each part of this assignment. It cannot be emphasized too strongly that this is expected to be a research paper and a Geography paper (i.e., not a history, political science, sociology, et cetera paper). Therefore, the page requirement is based on standard point fonts, no more than double spacing throughout, and 1.25 margins (meeting this requirement through the use of inappropriately large fonts or margins will be penalized), and does not include other required materials such as a title page & bibliography. Other formatting details of the paper will be described in assignment handouts. You should be well aware that most Internet sites, CD-ROMs, almanacs, yearbooks, encyclopediae and similar general-reference sources are not appropriate for a university research paper (especially at and above the 3000 level), and as such may not account for more than one-fourth of all bibliographic citations without suffering a 25% reduction in the grade assigned to the paper. Likewise, since sources more than 10 years old most likely do not reflect current reality in the region, except when trying to provide a basis for historical arguments, a more contemporary bibliography is expected. In short, it makes Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 3

4 sense to periodically check with me about the quality of your sources. In all likelihood, you will have to resort to InterLibrary Loan, so you should start this major project very early in the semester. Exams, each worth 12% of the final course grade, will be closed-book and will consist of multiple choice, true/false, map and short identification questions. The map portion of the exams may be done collaboratively. You will be notified about relevant locations to study for each exam in advance. You are greatly encouraged to study the preparatory materials made available in class handouts and online before each exam, including but certainly not limited to a complete list of all cities and other features to be located on the maps (which are themselves provided for you, together with everything else, well in advance of the exam date). The grading scale for the course is not curved; that is, 90% is the cutoff for an A, 80% for a B, 70% for a C, and 60% for a D. A total of 106% credit is available at the start of the semester; additional extra-credit opportunities may be added to the course in exams, but you should not assume so. REQUIRED TEXTS: Blouet, B.W. (2012) The EU & neighbors: A Geography of Europe in the modern world, 2 nd edition, New York: Wiley & Sons, ISBN ISBN-10: ; ISBN-13: Frankland, E. (2008) Global Studies: Europe, 10 th edition, McGraw Hill/Dushkin, ISBN-10: X, ISBN-13: The course schedule which follows is subject to change, so you should check the website often, please. Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 4

5 I. Europe as an idea (11 & 13 January) By 15 January, read: Blouet pp , and Frankland pp and II. Europe s changing physical geography (13 22 January; no class Monday 18 January) The News From Europe #1 due Wednesday, 20 January Wild Europe: A New Millennium By 20 January, read: Blouet pp and Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 5

6 III. An historical geography of Europe 2d(27 & 29 January) Research Paper précis due Monday, 25 January The News From Europe #2 due Friday, 29 January By 29 January, read: Blouet pp Friday, 29 January: Exam #1 (Parts I, II, and III) Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 6

7 IV. A regional geography of Northern Europe (1 17 February; no class Monday, 15 February) Scandinavia (Greenland, Iceland, Faeroes, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, & Denmark) The Baltic Sea (Denmark, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Kaliningrad, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland, & Sweden) The North Sea (United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium) The News From Europe #3 due Friday, 12 February Baltic Summer Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 7

8 By 19 February, read: Blouet pp , , , and Frankland pp , , , , , and Friday, 19 February: Exam #2 (Part IV) Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 8

9 V. A regional geography of Western Europe (22 February 21 March; no classes March) Northwest Europe (Ireland, United Kingdom, France) The Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Spain, Andorra, & France) The Low Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, & Luxembourg) The Rhine River Basin (Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) The Alps (France, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Italy, & Slovenia) The Western Mediterranean (Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, & Malta) The News From Europe #4 due Monday, 22 February Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 9

10 Research Paper annotated initial bibliography due Friday, 11 March The News From Europe #5 due Monday, 21 March By 23 March, read: Blouet pp , , , , , and Frankland pp , , , , , , and Wednesday, 23 March: Exam #3 (Part V) Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 10

11 VI. A regional geography of Central & Eastern Europe (25 March 13 April; no class 6 April) Central Europe (Germany, Czech Republic, & Poland) The eastern European Plains (Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, & Russia) The western steppe (Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, & Kazakhstan) March Research Paper abstracted outline due Monday, 28 The News From Europe #6 due Monday, 4 April Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 11

12 By 15 April, read: Blouet pp , , and Frankland pp , 54 57, 71 74, and Friday, 15 April: Exam #4 (Part VI) Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 12

13 VII. A regional geography of Southeastern Europe (18 27 April) The middle & lower Danube Basins (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, & Ukraine) The Western Balkans (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, & Albania) The Black Sea (Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, & Moldova) The Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey, & Cyprus) The News From Europe #7 due Monday, 18 April Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 13

14 Research Paper final draft due Friday, 22 April By 27 April, read: Blouet pp , , , , and Frankland pp , 57 67, 69 71, 92 97, , and :00 10:00, Thursday, 5 May: Exam #5 (Part VII) Geography of Europe (GEOG : Lawrence), Spring 2016 page 14

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