Date

Topics

Assignment due on that date

Readings

additional reading to be announced

Sept 28

NO CLASS - Yom Kippur

Oct 5

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 12

Scope and content of geography

Meet w/ Andrew Marcus

- Present your article that represents geography

- Present your "Elevator definitions" of geography

- Review faculty cv and  article

- Marcus cv

- Marcus & Fonstad,. 2007, Optical remote mapping of rivers at sub-meter resolutions and watershed extents. Erth Srfc. Proc. Landfrm.

- Marcus et al. 2007. Atlas of Yellowstone

Oct 14 

WEDNESDAY

NOON

Oct 19

Professional expectations:  Personal conduct in a professional world

Meet w/ Susan Hardwick

-  Readings

- Review faculty cv and  article

- Royal Geographical Society, 2007

- UW guidelines for good practice in graduate education

- Fall, 2009 Elevator definitions of geography

- Hardwick cv

- Hardwick & Mansfield, 2009, Annals

Oct 26

   Meet w/ Lise Nelson

Meet w/ Shaul Cohen

- Review faculty cv &  article

- Nelson cv

- Nelson-Hiemstra, 2008 Soc & Cult. Geog..

- Cohen cv

Nov 2 

Meet w/ Derrick Hindery

   Meet w/ Dan Gavin

- Readings

- Review faculty cv & article

- Hindery cv

- Hindery, 2004, Singapore J. Tropical Geog.

- Gavin, 2009, Diversity & distribution

-  Gavin cv

Nov 9

Developing research questions

Meet w/ Dan Buck

- Review faculty cv & article

 - Buck, 2007. Antipode.

 - Buck cv

Nov 16

Basic requirements of the program 

Meet w/ Jim Meacham

- Readings: Develop questions about program

 - Review faculty cv & article

- Reading: Grad handbook

- Use of computer resources and addenda

- Meacham cv

- Meacham & Allan, 2003, Cartographic Perspectives: article,  figures

Nov 23

   Meet w/ Amy Lobben

   Meet /Xiaobo Su

 - Review faculty cvs &article

 - 1^st round research questions due

- Lobben cv

- Lobben, 2004, Professional Geographer

- Su cv

- Su, In review, Geoforum

Nov 30

Introduction to the proposal process

Discussion of research questions

Dec 7

Meet w/ Patricia McDowell

Meet w/ Patrick Bartlein

 - Review faculty cvs & articles

- McDowell cv

- McDowell, 2001

- Bartlein cv

- Shinker et al., 2006, QSR

- Marlon et al., 2009. PNAS