Instructor:
Charles Heatwole
Email:
Charles.Heatwole@hunter.cuny.edu
Telephone: (212) 772-5323
Office: 1005 HN
Office Hours: Tuesday 10 AM - 1 PM
Wednesday 1PM - 5 PM
Thursday 11 AM - 2 PM
And by appointment
Your grade will be based entirely on your attendance, weekly presentations, and class participation.
Academic Honesty: Hunter College regards acts of academic dishonesty (e.g., plagiarism, cheating on examinations, obtaining unfair advantage, and falsification of records and official documents) as serious offenses against the values of intellectual honesty. The College is committed to enforcing CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity and will pursue cases of academic dishonesty according to the Hunter College Academic Integrity Procedures. Plagiarism, dishonest, or cheating in any portion of the work required for this course will be punished to the full extent allowed according to Hunter College regulations.
TextsGeography for Life: The National Geography Standards, 1994. (I will loan you a copy.)
Getis, Getis, and Fellman, Introduction to Geography. (Any recent edition.)
This is the capstone course for students who are majoring in one of the Options in Social Studies Education offered by the Department of Geography. Focusing on the National Geography Standards (the foundations of the New York State Education Department's geography standards), the course's goals are to review the content and methods of geography, focusing on ways to effectively present them to K-12 students in a grade-appropriate manner.
| Date | Topic | |
| Th 9/3 | Course Overview | |
| Th 9/10 | Standard 1 | |
| Th 9/17 | Standards 2 & 3 | |
| Th 9/24 | Standard 4 | |
| Th 10/1 | Standard 5 | |
| Th 10/8 | Standards 6 | |
| Th 10/15 | Standard 7 & 8 | |
| Th 10/22 | Standard 9 | |
| Th 10/29 | Standards 10 | |
| Th 11/5 | Standards 11 | |
| Th 11/12 | Standards 12 | |
| Th 11/19 | Standards 13 | |
| Th 12/3 | Standard 14 & 15 | |
| Th 12/10 | Standard 16 | |
| Exam period | Standards 17 & 18 |