Geography 609
Entering Graduate School &

Meet-the-Faculty Sessions
Fall 2007, 4:00 - 5:50 Tuesday
207 Condon Hall

                            W. Andrew Marcus

                            Condon 109
                            marcus@uoregon.edu

                            (541) 346-5709

                            Office hours: TBA

Alexander (Alec) Murphy

Condon 173

abmurphy@uoregon.edu

346-4571 

Office hours: T 1:30-3:00 p.m

The Geog 609-620-621 sequence

Alec Murphy home page / Andrew Marcus home page

Department of Geography  / University of Oregon


Date Topics Assignment due on that date

Readings

additional reading to be announced

Sept 25 Introduction to course - discussion of setting up 1st round research questions

Meet w/ Alec Murphy

Review faculty cv and read article

- Murphy cv

- Murphy, 2004. Territorial Ideology and International Conflict.?  In The Geography of War and Peace, C. Flint (ed.)  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, pp. 280-296.

Oct 2 Scope and content of geography

Meet w/ Andrew Marcus

- Present your article that represents geography

 

- Present your "Elevator definitions" of geography

- Marcus cv

- Marcus & Fonstad,. In review, Optical remote mapping of rivers at sub-meter resolutions and watershed extents

- Marcus et al. 2007. Atlas of Yellowstone

Oct 9

Meet w/ Susan Hardwick

 

Meet w/ Xiaobo Su

- Review faculty cv and  article

- Hardwick cv

- Hardwick & Meacham, 2005, The Professional Geographer. (in Tea Room file)

- Su cv

- Su & Teo, In review, Tourism Politics in Lijiang, China:

Oct 16

Overview of professional expectations -  Personal conduct in a professional world

 

Derrick Hindery

 - Readings

 

 - Review faculty cv and  article

 

- Review student elevator definitions of geography

- Royal Geographical Society, 2007

- UW guidelines for good practice in graduate education

- Hindery cv

- Hindery, 2004, Singapore J. Tropical Geog.

Oct 23

  Professional expectations: Writing

 

  Meet w/ Shaul Cohen

- Review faculty cv &  article

- Cohen cv

- Orwell, George, 1956, Politics and the English Language

- Ron Abler's Rules for Writers

- Andrew's writing examples

Oct 30  Meet w/ Jim Meacham

Library resources for geographers

- Readings

- Review faculty cv & article

- Meet w/ Map Librarian in the Map Library

- Meacham cv

- Meacham & Allan, 2003, Cartographic Perspectives:

          article

          figures

Nov 6

Basic requirements of the program 

 

Meet w/ Patricia McDowell

 

Readings, plus review faculty cv & article

- McDowell cv

- McDowell, 2001

- Reading: Grad handbook – develop questions about program

- Use of computer resources and addenda to this policy.

Nov 13

Meet w/ Dan Gavin

 

Meet w/ Lise Nelson

 

Readings, plus review faculty cv & article

- Gavin cv

- Gavin, 2007, Part 1and Part 2

- Nelson cv

- Nelson, 2006, J. Latin Amer. Geog..

Nov 20

 Meet w/ Amy Lobben

 

 Meet w/ Patrick (Bart) Bartlein

 

Review faculty cvs &article

 

1st round research questions due

- Lobben cv

- Lobben, 2004, Professional Geographer

- Bartlein cv

- Shinker et al., 2006, QSR

- Bartlein & Hostetler, 2004, Dev. in Quaternary Sci.

Nov 27

Meet w/ Peter Walker 

 

Research questions & Introduction to the proposal process

Review faculty cv & article

- Walker cv

- Walker & Hurley, 2004, Society and Natural Resources

 


last update:  11/12/07 12:42 PM
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