GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline

Development

Before Lecture
Reading assignment for today: Greiner pp. 260-293
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review before lecture (write a short definition): development, normative model, sustainable development, indicators, Gross national income, gross domestic product, purchasing power parity, poverty, sociodemographic indicators, environmental indicators, human development index, gender-related development index, gender empowerment measure, vulnerability, income distribution, income inequality, factors affecting income distributuion, classical (Rostow) model of development, dependency theory, world-system theory, neoliberal model, structural adjustment program, poverty reduction theory  
I have the following question(s) about the textbook reading:

• Measuring Development and Explaining Uneven Develpoment
  • Human Development Index (HDI)
  • Economic Measures
    • GDP—Gross Domestic Product Per Capita (Per Capita Income)
    • Factors influencing GDP
  • Sociodemographic Measures
    • Gender
      • GDI and GEM
    • Education and Literacy
    • Health

Development is Uneven

• Classical Model: Rostow's Stages of Development
• Theories of Uneven Development
  • Key Ideas
    • Underdevelopment
    • Development is Interconnected with Underdevelopment
  • Dependency Theory
    • Dominant and Dependent states
  • World-System Theory
    • Core, Periphery, and Semiperiphery
• Neoliberal Model
• Poverty-Reduction Model

After Lecture

What was the main point of today's lecture?

Important concepts covered in this lecture (write a short definition):

One thing I did not fully understand today is:

What did I learn today that I did not know before?