We're almost done! Students in the Monday-Wednesday section have one last class meeting on Monday--where they'll take the Americas unit map quiz--and then their exam on the following Monday (December 15) from 8 to 11 AM in Drescher 208 (the regular classroom). Students in the Tuesday-Thursday section have no more meetings, except for the final exam on Tuesday from 8 to 11 AM in HSS 251 (the regular classroom). Regardless of the section in which you're enrolled, you are welcome to take the exam at either time/place listed above.

The exam will be the same format as the midterm, just longer. It will be comprehensive, covering material from the entire semester, but it will more heavily emphasize the second-half materials. And at the final exam, you'll take your last map quiz, this one covering Southeast Asia. Bring a scantron form.

Just a quick reminder to my Monday-Wednesday students that there is no class on Monday, November 10, when SMC will be closed to celebrate the Veterans' Day holiday. We will continue with Unit 5 next week, for which the notes have now been posted. There are no assignments due next week, but I will be handing out the fifth set of Kaplan questions, which are due November 20.

It's now week 6 of the semester, and we'll soon begin Unit 3 (South and Central Asia). This will take us up to the Midterm Exam at the end of Week #8, but in the meantime, you have your Unit 2 map quiz this week in class (Wednesday/Thursday). Then, due next week, October 9, is the 3rd set of Kaplan questions.

With the first three weeks of the semester behind us, we're almost finished with Unit 1. Next week we will thus move on to Unit 2, for which all the lecture notes are now posted. We will also have our first unit map quiz: on Tuesday for my Tuesday-Thursday students, and Wednesday for my Monday-Wednesday students. You will be given a copy of the blank outline world map that is available on our homepage, and you'll be asked to locate about a dozen examples of the "Key Places" that are listed with the lecture notes for Unit 1.

I will also be handing out next week the second set of Kaplan questions; they are due on the 25th.

Quick announcement: I have had to adjust my Tuesday afternoon office hour. The new time is 2:05 to 3:05 PM. Please make a note of this change.

Welcome to Geography 11 at Santa Monica College!
In addition to this website, be sure to explore, throughout the semester, our on-line discussion forum at SMC's eCompanion website. To access, simply direct your web browser to the following:
http://smconline.org/index.real?action=eCompanion
Once you've logged in and found your way to our class, click on "Bulletin Board" to read and participate in various discussions about the class. To help get you started, I've provided an easy ice-breaker topic, designed both to introduce us to each other and to get us thinking about the complicated and fluid ideas (in today's world at least) of "culture" and "identity". In the meantime, you can also get off to a running start by reading the first chapter of the textbook. See you in class!