Home Page, Geog 620, Theory & Practice of Geography

Schedule
Date & Start Time	Topics	Assignments	Readings - to be completed on date shown Readings not available online are available in the file drawer in 108 Condon
Jan 5	Course Intro: Journal & annotated bibliography assignments, Moving toward round 2 research questions	Journal assignment & Annotated bibliography assignments handed out
Jan 7	Library resource and searches - Jon Jablonski
Jan 12	Formulating research questions (mapping/map use/behavioral research) – Amy Lobben		- Lobben, A.K, 2007. Navigational map reading... Annals of the association of American Geographers 97(1): 64-85. - Bordens & Abbott, Chapter 2, "Developing Ideas for Research and Evaluating Theories of Behavior" from Research Design and Methods In TEAROOM drawer.
Jan 14	Formulating research questions (human geography) – Xiaobo Su		.- Zukin, 1982. Preface to Loft Living. - Bradshaw and Stratford, 2005. Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, Chapter 3. - Additional short handout provided in class.
Jan 19	Martin Luther King Day	No Class
Jan 21	Formulating research questions (physical geography) – Dan Gavin		- Gavin NSF Proposal, Introductory pages - Miller et al., 2006. Tree Ring Isotope Records of Tropical Cyclone Activity - Pakeman, 2001. Plant Migration Rates and Seed Dispersal Activities
Jan 26	Research writing		- Limerick, P., 1993. Dancing With Professors: The Trouble With Academic Prose. - Gregory, D., 2005. Geographies, Publics, and Politics NOTE - only required to read Gregory portion of forum (starts on page 182). - Orwell, George, 1956, Politics and the English Language
Jan 28	Journals – advancing your research through knowing sources - Student led reports	Journal assignment due
Feb 2	H&T – pre 20th Century		- Martin, G.J. & James, P.E., 1993: Chap 6 & Chap 15 - DoHG – Entries on “exploration,” “anthropogeography” - DoPG – Entries on “Darwinism,” “evolution”
Feb 4	H&T – 1900 – 1950		- Martin, G.J. & James, P.E., 1993: Chap 16 - Semple, Ellen C., Influences of geographic environment on the basis of Ratzel’s system of anthrpogeographie - Sauer, Carl, 1925. The Morphology of Landscape - DoHG – Entries on “areal differentiation,” “landscape,” “regions and regional geography” - DoPG – Entries on “cycle of erosion,” “peneplain ”
Feb 9		No class
Feb 11	H&T – 1900 – 1950		- Hartshorne, R., 1939. The Character of Regional Geography. - Leighley, J. 1955. What has happened to physical geography? - DoHG – Entries on “areal differentiation,” “landscape,” “regions and regional geography” - DoPG – Entries on “climate classification” “climatic geomorphology,” “climax vegetation,” “succession”
Feb 16	H&T – Roots of the Quantitative Revolution		- Schaefer, F. K., 1953. Exceptionalism in Geography - Morill, R.L. ,1984. Recollections of the Quantitative Revolution’s Early Years: The University of Washington 1955-65. - DoHG – Entries on "quantitative revolution," “positivism,” “location analysis,” “central place theory,” “von Thünen model”
Feb18	H&T – Wake of the Quantitative Revolution		- Golledge, Reginald, 1997, The Development of Geographical Analysis - Gould, Peter, 1979. Geography 1957-1977: The Augean Period DoHG – Entries on “quantitative revolution,” “location theory,” “population geography,” “ neo-classical economics,” “mental maps,” “diffusion” DoPG – Entries on “stochastic models,.” “stochastic processes,” “hydraulic geometry”
Feb 23	H&T – Alternatives to positivism in Human Geography (1970s) - Dan Buck		- Harvey, D., 1984, On the History and Present Condition of Geography” - Tuan, Yi-Fu, 1979, Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective - Jackson, P., and Smith, S. J., 1984. Exploring Social Geography. London: Allen & Unwin, pp. 1-11 of the introduction. - DoHG – Entries on “structuralism,” “Marxist geography,” ”structural Marxism,” “uneven development,” “humanistic geography,” “place”
Feb 25	Quantitative and System Concerns in Physical Geography (70s-80s) - Pat McDowell	Annotated bibliographies due	- Selections from Gregory, K., The Changing Nature of Physical Geography Chap 3 Chap 4 DoPG - Entries on "systems," "equilibrium," and "threshold, geomorphological"
Mar 2	Environmental Processes and Environmental Change in Physical Geography (80s-90s) - Patrick (Bart) Bartlein		- Selections from Gregory, K., The Changing Nature of Physical Geography Chap 5 Chap 6 DoPG - Entries on "habitat," "carbon dating" (also note many other entries under "dating" in the index), and "digital image processing"
Mar 4	H&T – Alternatives to positivism in Human Geography in the late 20th Century - Shaul Cohen	Turn in 2nd round research questions - submit electronically to Marcus	- McDowell, L.& Massey, D., 1984. A Woman’s Place? - Harley, J. B., 1989. Deconstructing the Map. - Gregory, Derek, 1989. Areal Differentiation and Post-Modern Human Geography. - DoHG – Entries on “structuration theory,” “realism,” “modernity,” “postmodernism,” “feminist geographies”
Mar 9	Discussion of 2nd round research questions
Mar 11	Discussion of 2nd round research questions
Required Texts: Johnston, R.J., Gregory, D., Pratt, G., A., Watts, M. (eds.), 2000. The Dictionary of Human Geography, 4th ed. Malden, MA, Blackwell, 958 p. Thomas, D.S.G., Goudie, A., 2000.The Dictionary of Physical Geography, 3rd ed. Malden, MA, Blackwell, 610 p.

last update: 04/17/09 09:33 PM Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, 97403-1251