Welcome to Geography 107 Introduction to Human Geography

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Welcome to Geography 107Introduction to Human
Geography

• Dr. Steve Graves
• California State University, Northridge

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First day housekeeping

• Dr. Steve Graves
• Syllabus, Course Expectations, Schedules, Office
  Hours, Grades, Assignments, etc. all available
  at
• http//www.csun.edu/sg4002/courses/107/107_home.h
  tml
• Better yet, Google Steve Graves Geography and
  look for my web pages there.

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Who Am I?

• Title protocol
• Dr. Coach

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Me

• 6th of 7 kids (not catholic)
• Industrial upbringing in Ohio
• Education
• BA Ohio State
• BSed Ohio Univ.
• 2 years public school teacher
• MA Miami
• PhD Illinois
• 5 yrs at Louisiana Tech
• I love
• Football, music, road trips
• family

• top down desert burn

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Nikobe
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Elijah
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Marta-Wedding Day
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Why are you here?

• Its a requirement!
• Why is geography a requirement?
• Broaden horizons new places, new ideas
• Understand yourself and others better
• Spatial thinking
• Educationnotvocational training..but
• Life and death
• Citizenship
• http//www.ncge.org/publications/resources/busines
  s/page1.html
• http//www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/australia.sht
  ml
• http//satirewire.com/news/jan02/geography.shtml
• geography.shtml

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You dont want to wind up
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What will you get out of this course?

• 1. Knowledge You will know more about the United
  States and the rest of the world than you did
  when you began the course.
• 2. Skills You will be able to think like a
  geographer and use some of the tools of the
  geographer by the end of the semester.
• 3. Disposition Hopefully, you will be a better
  person and a better global citizen after
  completing this course.