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Geography (GEOG)
GEOG 5930 Readings in Geography Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
GEOG 6120 Seminar in Urban Geography Prerequisites: Graduate standing in geography or consent of instructor. Description: Analysis of research on urban systems, internal morphology, urban problems and urban spatial behavior. Review and analysis of student research efforts. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Other: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Geography GEOG 6130 Seminar in Political Geography Prerequisites: Graduate standing in geography or consent of instructor. Description: Theoretical foundations of political geography from MacKinder and Hartshorne to recent writings by Smith, Anderson and other modern theorists. Nationalism, national identity, state formation and cohesion considered in a spatial context. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Other: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Geography GEOG 6180 Seminar in Transportation Geography Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Description: Examination of transportation systems, emphasizing their effects on trade, land use, location issues, and development. Review of trends, problems, and methods related to transport issues. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Other: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Geography GEOG 6210 Seminar in Historical Geography Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Description: This seminar explores historical geographic research concerning places and environments, the dynamics of place, space, and landscape as well as how the past shapes the geographies of the present and the future. It considers methodological practices and theoretical understandings associated with historical geographic scholarship. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Other: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Geography GEOG 6303 Geographic Analysis II Prerequisites: GEOG 5303. Description: An advanced course in the application of statistical methods to spatial problems. Focuses on univariate and bivariate spatial autocorrelation, geographically weighted regression (GWR), spatial weighting, and visualization of geostatistical data. Heavy emphasis on current research in geospatial techniques and student research. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Geography
Description: Directed readings on selected topics, regions or methods in geography. Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-3 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Geography GEOG 5940 Graduate Cooperative Education Internship Prerequisites: Consent of departmental internship coordinator and graduate committee. Description: Practical experience in applying geographical concepts and tools to business or governmental problems. Emphasis on educational aspects of applying discipline-related tools to real-world problems. Credit not available for regular employment positions; must have fixed start/end dates. Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 3 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-3 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Geography GEOG 6000 Doctoral Dissertation Research Prerequisites: Admission to candidacy and consent of major professor. Description: Offered for variable credit, 1-12 credit hours, maximum of 30 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-12 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Geography GEOG 6013 Seminar in Quaternary Paleoecology Prerequisites: Graduate standing in geography or consent of instructor. Description: Analysis and discussion of various aspects of research on the Quaternary period, emphasizing the roles played by climate, geomorphic processes, vegetation, soil and fauna. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Geography GEOG 6110 Seminar in Cultural and Political Ecology Prerequisites: Graduate standing in geography or consent of instructor. Description: Study of the relationship between culture and environment and competing theories of human-environment interactions. Traces the roots of cultural ecology starting with classic ecological systems and adaptation theory, to criticisms leading to the development of "political" and "hybrid" ecologies. Course focuses on Marxist influences, inequalities of third world development, gender and resource management, social and environmental movements, indigenous knowledge, natural disasters and environmental vulnerability. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Other: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Geography
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