Power Point Lectures
Note these files will only open on campus in computer labs at WWU
(most recent update 2/26/2009)
Lecture 1 -- Chap 1 -- Globalization a Defintion
Lecture 2 -- Chap 1 -- Defining Geography & Economic Geography
Lecture 3 -- Global Cultural Impacts: Hofested & Todd
Lecture 4 -- Chap 2 -- Feudalism
Lecture 5 -- Chap 2 -- Capitalism
Lecture 6 -- Chap 2 -- Industrial Revolution
Lecture 7a -- Chap 3 -- Demographic Transition
Lecture 7b -- Chap 3 -- Population and Migration
Lecture 8 -- Chap 4 -- Food Resources
Lecture 9 -- Chap 4 -- Prof. Kulcinski on Energy Resources
Lecture 10 Chap 4 -- Energy Resources Continued
Lecture 11a Chap4 -- Simmons on Peaking Production
Lecture 11b Chap 4 -- Simmons on Tight Oil Supplies
(OPTIONAL) Lecture 11c Chap 4 -- Simmons on China and Energy
(OPTIONAL) Lecture 12 Chap 4 -- Alcoa on Renewable Energy Certificates
Lecture 13 Chap 14 -- Development Chapter
Lecture 14 Chap 14 -- Development and Surplus
(Optional) Lecture 14b Lagging African Development and the Heritage of Slave Trade
Lecture 15 Chap 6 -- Agriculture
(Optional) Lecture 15 a -- Farm Subsidies and Obesity in US
(Optional) Lecture 15 b -- Farm Subsidies and Collapse of WTO Doha Round
Spreadsheet on Von Thunen Model
Lecture 16 Chap 5 -- Basics of Location
Video Notes on The Nike Shoe Plant in China
Lecture 17 Chap 5 -- Weber's Industrial Location Model
Lecture 17b Weber Applied Exercises
Spreadsheet on US Steel Exercise
Lecture 18 Chap 5 -- Silicon Valley
Lecture 19 Chap 7 -- Manufacturing
Video Notes on Just-In-Time system in the American Midwest