GEOG 620
Journal Assignment
GEOG 620
Assignment for January 27, 2010
The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize you with the scope and content of basic geographical journals in English. Each of you should spend a few hours in the library browsing the following general geographical journals: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The Professional Geographer, Physical Geography, Geographical Review, Progress in Human Geography, Progress in Physical Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Come to class prepared to discuss the scope, content, and style of these journals. In addition, each of you is assigned one of the subfields of geography listed below. Your job is to prepare a short written review of three or four journals that are likely to be of use to individuals doing research in that subfield. You need not limit yourself to geographical journals, but the geographical journal listed after the subfield should be among the three or four you choose to review. Each journal review should be no more than one paragraph and should explain the nature of the journal, the audience it is trying to reach, the types of articles found in the journal (applied, theoretical, statistical, descriptive, etc.), and the types of materials included in the journal (book reviews, commentaries, software reviews, etc.). Please circulate copies of your journal reviews to everyone in the class by Jan. 25 (two days before the assignment will be discussed in class).
Subfield
Journal
Student
Political Political
Geography
Vincent
Social Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Meche
Historical Journal of Historical
Geography Gretchen
Cultural Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene)
Easther
Economic Economic Geography
Laurie
Urban Urban
Geography
Rene
Feminist Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of
Feminist Geography Heather
Geomorphology Geomorphology
Amanda
Climatology Journal of
Climate
Sarah
Hydrology Journal of the American Water Resources
Association Denise
Biogeography Journal of Biogeography
Aquila
Cartography Cartographic Perspectives
Nancy
Env Change Quaternary Research,
Holocene Jenn
Spatial analysis
Geographical
Analysis
Matt
GIS International Journal of Geographic
Information Systems Ben
Education Journal of Geography Walter