Geography W12: Maps and Spatial Reasoning Syllabus

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Geography W12: Maps and Spatial Reasoning Syllabus

Course: Geography W12 - Maps and Spatial Reasoning

Term: Winter 2024

Description: My goal for this course is to get you excited about maps and geographic approaches to solving the world’s most challenging problems. The learning outcome for the lecture component of the course is to give you a sense about how a range of critical social and environmental challenges are being addressed through geographic data science and technology. In the lab, the learning outcome is to give you a hands-on introduction to a range of geospatial  technology.

Grading: The grading for this course will be based on 8 labs, 3 quizzes, a short writing assignment, lecture participation, lab participation.

● There are 8 labs and each is worth 6.25% (50%)

● There will be 3 quizzes worth 10% each (30%)

● There will be one written assignment, the map blog post, worth (10%)

● There will be 18 lecture videos (with two participation points embedded in each) and each video is worth .27% (5%)

● There will be 8 lab participation activities and each activity is worth .625% (5%)

Late lab assignments: Late assignments will be deducted 10% per day for up to 5 days. After 5 days you cannot hand in a late assignment and will receive a zero. Any concerns about your grades should be brought up with you TA or Instructor within 1 week of receiving the grade.

Map Blog Post Assignment: The goal of this assignment is to give students a chance to find and explain a map they find exciting and to evaluate the effectiveness ofmaps based on aspects (no pun intended!) ofmaps they have learned about in this course.  Please find a map that you are excited about. It could be in the news, part of a research project, or generated by a community organization, or from a government agency. In the style of a blog a post, describe the map.

Outline what works and what doesn’t work, with an emphasis on aspects of mapping you have learned about in this class.  The length should be 400-500 words.  Late assignments will lose 5% per day and will be not be marked if more than 3 days late.

Rubric that will be used for assessing the Map Blog Post

Rubric

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2

3

4

5

Clear

Identifies a map

Somewhe

Identifies the

Somewhe

Identifies a map

explanation

but does not

re

map and the

re

that is unique and

of what the

explain the value

between 1

impact is

between 3

clearly articulates

map means

and 3

minimally

and 5

why the map is of

and why it is

explained.

value to them

of interest to

them

Identifies and explains what elements of the map

works well

Explains one

element of the

map that is

effective

Somewhe

re

between 1 and 3

Explains, in

detail, several   of the effective features of the maps

Somewhe

re

between 3 and 5

Explains, in detail, several of the

effective features of the maps and     relates to elements learned in the

course

Identifies and

Explains one

Somewhe

Explains, in

Somewhe

Provides

explains what

element of the

re

detail, several

re

interesting idea of

elements of

map that is

between 1

of the

between 3

how the map

the map

ineffective

and 3

ineffective

and 5

could be changed

could be

features of the

or utilized in an

improved

maps

effective way

Clear writing with good

grammar

Has written

400-500 words

but the narrative is difficult to follows

Somewhe

re

between 1 and 3

Has written

400-500 words and the

narrative is

easy to follow but there are grammatical errors

Somewhe

re

between 3 and 5

Has written

400-500 words and the narrative is easy to follow and there no

grammatical

errors

Creates

The assignment is

Somewhe

The assignment

Somewhe

The assignments

interest and

complete but I

re

is complete and

re

is complete and I

enthusiasm

don't get a sense

between 1

I feel minimal

between 3

feel really excited

about maps

of excitement

and 3

excitement

and 5

about the map and

narrative.


2024-01-22