GEOG 365 Summer 2005

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Instructor: Masami Tsujita Office: Saunders Hall Room 419 Office Phone 956-7311 Office Hours: by appointment E-mail: masamit@hawaii.edu

Course Description: In this course, we will study geography of the Pacific Islands—a geographic realm that encompasses the regions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Studying the geography of the Pacific is more than just knowing the locations of the countries and island groups of the region. This course aims to introduce you to human geography approaches to a range of events that have created contemporary Pacific. We will explore causes of transformation of the Island landscapes, and ongoing debates about environmental alterations, cultural identities, economic development, and globalization. We take a critical look at issues affecting the region and stress the importance of understanding the diversity of the Pacific Island environments and peoples. Course Requirements: Participation: This class is based on 4 components: instructor’s lectures, guest lectures, films, and one or more assigned readings for each week. Students are expected to attend lectures, contribute to discussions, read the readings before the class, and write short reactions to guest lectures and the movies shown in class.

Attendance: Attendance is taken at the start of every class period. Each student is allowed 3 unexcused absences. Each additional unexcused absence will result in a lowered final grade (i.e., A becomes B). Texts: A course reader will be available soon from EMA Campus Copy. Exams: There will be one map quiz (May 27, 2005) and 2 exams (June 13, 2005 and July 1, 2005) covering material from the class discussions, readings, guest lectures, and movies. The Island Ambassador Project: For past decades, “development” has been a heated and controversial topic of discussion among leaders of the Pacific. In this discussion, tourism has often been regarded as one of the most feasible sources of development for island communities. In this project, you become an ambassador of a chosen country/island, internationally promoting tourism of the place as a form of sustainable development. This project is composed of three parts: journal, oral presentation, and final paper.

Journals: To promote your island, you must know current issues facing the place. You are required to keep a journal on a chosen island concerning the events that are happening there. The journal will be turned in every Friday for grading. In the journal, you must cite the sources of information.

Research Paper: Students are required to write a blueprint of tourism development on your chosen place. This paper should be 6-8 typed, double-spaced pages and must include citations from relevant source materials that are from academic journals and books. The paper should include:

1) a brief geographical and historical background of your island 2) at least two aspects of the place that might be considered obstacles to bringing tourists (e.g., the lack of air transportation, lack of uniqueness on the highly competitive market, political instability, etc), and their possible solutions.

3) discussion on a protective plan for any possible environmental damage caused by increased tourism

4) a plan for an alternative form of development IF you found that tourism would not be feasible and sustainable on your island

5) your own handwritten tourist map of your island The paper is due on June 27, 2005.

Presentation: Each student will give a short presentation (10 minutes) in class based on your project. The presentations are scheduled for the 6th week.

Evaluation:

Map Quiz 5% A= 100-90 Mid-term exam 15% B= 89-80 Project C= 79-70 Journal 10% D= 69-60 Research Paper 10% F= below 59 Presentation 10% Final exam 15%

Participation/Attendance 35% Total 100% Deadlines: The dues dates for assignments are indicated in the course schedule. Generally, there will be grade penalties for late work. Academic Dishonesty: Academic dishonesty, including plagiarism (submitting someone else’s work as your own), cheating, or fabrication of information or citations, will result in a grade of “F” for this course. If you have any questions or uncertainty regarding the use of sources in your research or other areas of potential conflict with this policy, discuss them with the instructor.

GEOG 365: Tentative Course Topic Outline

Assigned reading; ✿ Guest Speaker; Movies

Week 1: Introduction to Geography of the Pacific

May 23 M Overview of the Course & Mapping GEOG 365

May 24 T Framing the Pacific Reading #1

May 25 W Physical Environment Reading #2 & #3

May 26 R Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Rising Waters

May 27 F Early Settlement Reading #4 ✿ Guest Speaker Map Quiz

Week 2: Colonial Frame

May 30 M H O L I D A Y

May 31 T Colonial Settlement Reading #5 & #6

June 1 W Colonial Labor Sugar Slave: The History of Australia’s Slave Trade

June 2 R Nuclear Playground

June 3 F Fight for Independence Reading #7

Week 3: Re-framing the Pacific

June 6 M Re-discovering Polynesia: Hôkule’a Voyage Reading #8

June 7 T Oceania Regionalism #1: One Ocean Reading #9

June 8 W Oceania Regionalism #2: My Ocean Coconut Revolution

June 9 R Oceania Regionalism #3: Many Oceans Reading #10

June 10 F H O L I D A Y

Week 4: Economic & Development Geography

June 13 M Mid-Term June 14 T Economic Representations Reading #11

June 15 W A Different Approach Reading #12 A Chief in Two Worlds

June 16 R Development and Conflicts ✿ Guest Speaker

June 17 F Search for Development #1: Foreign Aid

Week 5: Development and Globalization

June 20 M Search for Development #2: Tourism Reading #13 Pacific Star

June 21 T Search for Development #3: Reading #14 Foreign Investment and Multinational Factories

June 22 W Tidal Wave of Globalization Advertising Missionaries

June 23 R Transitions in Health Reading #15

June 24 F Alternative Development?

Week 6: The Island Ambassadors

June 27 M Student Presentations Research Paper Due

June 28 T Student Presentations

June 29 W Student Presentations

June 30 R Student Presentations and Vote!

July 1 F Final Exam Important Dates: Map Quiz: May 27, 2005 Mid Term: June 13, 2005 Research Paper: June 27, 2005 Final Exam: July 1, 2005

GEOG 365 Reading List (Summer 2005)

#1

Howe, K. R. (2000), Introduction. In Nature, Culture, and History: The “Knowing” of Oceania.

#2 Fryer, G. and Patricia (1999), Geology. In The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, edited by M Rapaport, 33-42. Honolulu: The Bess Press.

#3 Nunn, Patrick (1999), Geomorphology. In The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, edited by M Rapaport, 43-55. Honolulu: The Bess Press.

#4 Thomas, F. R. (1999), The Pre-contact Period. In The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, edited by M Rapaport, 121-132. Honolulu: The Bess Press.

#5 Hau’ofa, Epeli (1994), Our Sea of Islands. The Contemporary Pacific, 6:147-160.

#6 Chappell, David (1999), The Post-Contact Period. In The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, edited by M Rapaport,134-143. Honolulu: The Bess Press.

#7 Bayliss-Smith, Tim (1988), Pampered Periphery. In Islands, Islanders, and the World, 131-165.

#8 Finney, Ben (1999), The Sin at Awarua. The Contemporary Pacific, 11:1-33.

#9 Hau’ofa, Epeli (1999), The Ocean in Us. In Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific, edited by Hanlon and White, 113-131. Lanham, Md. : Rowan & Littlefield Publishers.

#10

Crocombe, Ron (2001), Who Wants Regionalism? In The South Pacific, 618. Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific

#11

Callick, Rowan (1993), A Doomsday Scenario? In Pacific 2010: Challenging the Future, edited by Cole, 1-7. Canberra, Australia: National Center for Development Studies, Australian National University

#12 Wartho, Richard (1995), Conceptualizing Oceania in the New World Disorders. Pacific Viewpoint, 36: 211-226.

#13 Thaman, Konai Helu (1994), Environment-friendly or the New Sell? One Women’s View on Ecotourism in Pacific Island Countries. In Sustainable Development or Malignant Growth? Perspectives of Pacific Island Women, edited by Emerson-Bain, 183-191. Suva, Fiji: Marama Publications.

#14 Slatter, Claire (1994), Banking on the Growth Model? The World Bank and Market Policies in the Pacific. In Sustainable Development or Malignant Growth? Perspectives of Pacific Island Women, edited by Emerson-Bain, 17-36. Suva, Fiji: Marama Publications.

#15 Crocombe, Ron (2001) Health: More Lives and Longer, but Problematic Fitness. In The South Pacific, 75-99. Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific.