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Date |
Topics |
Assignments |
Readings - to be completed on date shown
(required texts at bottom of table) - additional readings TBA |
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Week 1 |
H&T
Resurgence of Physical Geography: A personal tale from Andrew
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Readings |
Bios:
Sack, D., 2004. Experiences and
viewpoints of selected women geomorphologists from the mid-20th Century.
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Week 2 |
Discuss previous week's readings
Writing a proposal: Structure & goals |
Readings |
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Week 3,
April 14 |
H&T - Physical
Geography: Paradigms and paradigm shifts in the late 20th Century
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James,
L.A. and Marcus, W.A., 2006, The human role in changing fluvial
systems: Retrospect, inventory, prospect.
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Gleick, ., 1987.
Chaos: Making a new science. Penguin Books, p. 1-56
Phillips, Jonathan D., 2004. Independence, contingency, and scale
linkage in physical geography. in Sheppard, E. and McMaster, R.B.
(ed.), Scale and geographic inquiry: Nature, society, and method.
Blackwell, p. 86-100.
- DoPG
Entries on nonlinear system, threshold,
geomorphological carbon
dating (also note many other entries under dating
in the index), digital image
processing
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Week 4, April 21 |
H & T - Crossing the
Human-Environment Divide
Peter Walker |
Readings |
Harrison. S. et al., 2008.
Conversations across the divide.
Geoforum 39:549-551.
Lau, L. & M. Pasquini, 2008.
"Jack of all trades? The negotiation of interdisciplinarity in
geography." Geoforum 39:552-560.
Robbins, P. & K. Bishop, 2008.
"There and back again: Epiphany, disillusionment and rediscovery in
political ecology." Geoforum 39:747-755.
Blaikie, P., 2008.
"Epilogue: Towards a future for political ecology that works."
Geoforum 39:765-772.
Walsh, S. and D. McGinnis, 2008. "Biocomplexity in coupled human-natural systems: The
study of population and environment interactions." Geoforum
39:773-775.
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Week 5 |
Geographic Practice: Ethics in geographic research,
education & practice - Megan Lawrence & Suzanne Walther |
Readings |
Walther, Suzanne. 2009. Comps response on ethics in overseas
research and education practice
Lawrence,
Megan, 2008. Comps response on ethics in behavioral research |
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Week 6 |
H & T - Geography and Education
Susan Hardwick |
Readings |
Hardwick, 2005. Mentoring Early Career Faculty in Geography.
Gersmehl, 2005. Teaching Geography (excerpt).
Murphy, Alexander B., 2007, Geography's place in American higher
education. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
Stoltman, 1997. Geography Curriculum and Instruction Research
Since 1950. |
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Week 7 |
H & T - New theories/approaches/topics in human
geography |
Readings & develop questions for class |
Bondi, Liz and Davidson, Joyce, 2005, Situating gender.
In Nelson,
Lise & Seager, J. (eds.) A Companion to Feminist Geography,
Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 15-31, . (Mahmood, Tom, Heather, Jessica)
Duncan, Nancy, 1996. Postmodernism in human geography, in Earle,
C., Mathewson, K., & Martin, M.S. (eds.), Concepts in Human
Geography, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield. (Alex,
Nate, Didi, Erin)
Sayer, Andrew. 1993. Postmodernist Thought in Geography: A
Realist View. Antipode 25 (4): 320-244. (Matt,
Derrick, Kate)
Hanson, S., 2004. Who are "we"? An important question for
geography's future. Annals of the Association of American Geographers
94(4):715-722. (Kenji, Lindsay, Innisfree, Ian) |
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Week 8 |
PART I: Geographic Practice: -
Cross-cutting ideas/approaches/themes; where is geography headed?
PART II: Geographic Practice: Employment Opportunities in
geography and related
fields
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Readings |
Rediscovering Geography Committee, 1997. Rediscovering
geography: New relevance for science and society. National Academy
Press, Washington, D.C., Chapter 3,
Geography's perspectives, p. 28-46. ( Erin, Ian, Derrick)
The 3
short articles below, all from the 100th anniversary issue of the
Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(4)
Kwan, M., 2004, Beyond
differences: From canonical geography to hybrid geographies, p.
756-763. (Mahmood. Alex, Matt, Kenji)
Rhoads, B. L., 2004, Whither
physical geography, p. 748-755. (Tom, Nate, Derrick, Jessica,
Lindsay)
Sheppard, E., 2004,
Practicing geography, p. 739-743. (Heather, Didi, Kate, Innisfree)
AAG Careers in Geography Web Site |
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Week 9 |
Presentation of proposals |
Oral presentations |
Presentations by: Didi, Jess, Innisfree, Lindsay,
Tom, Erin, Matt |
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Week 10 |
Presentation of proposals |
Turn in proposals, Oral presentations |
Presentations by: Kate, Alex, Ian, Nate, Heather, Kenji, Derek,
Mahmood |
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last update:
10/05/09 03:14 PM
Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, 97403-1251 |
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