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Schedule
Date & Start Time	Topics	Assignments	Readings - to be completed on date shown (click here to get reference list with full citations for Marcus & Murphy reading assignments. Guest lecture readings are not listed.) Readings not available online are available in the file drawer in 108 Condon
Jan 8, 12:30	Course Intro: Journal & annotated bibliography assignments, Moving toward round 2 research questions	Journal assignment & Annotated bibliography assignments handed out
Jan 10, 5 p.m.	Data/Information acquisition (quantitative) – Pat McDowell		O'Brien ,L., 1992, Introducing Quantitative Geography, London, Routledge. Chapter 2 Parker, K.C.,, 2001, Enrichment and frustration in fieldwork, The Geographical Review, 91(1-2):168-174. Gersmehl, P.J. & Brown, D.A., 1992. Observation, in Abler, R.F., Marcus, M.G., & Olson, J.M. (eds.), Geography's Inner Worlds, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, p 77-98.
Jan 15	Martin Luther King Day	No Class	No Class
Jan 17,	Data/Information acquisition (qualitative) – Lise Nelson	Note early start time	Mason, Qualitative Research, Chap 1 & 2. Patton, M.Q., Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Pub., Chapter 8.
Jan 22	No class - attend lucnh with job candidate	No Class
Jan 24, 5 p.m.	Data/information analysis (quantitative) – Pat Bartlein Overview notes of Bart's presentation (to be posted later)		Poon, J.P.H. ,2003, Prog Human Geog 27(6):753-762. Poon, J.P.H., 2004, Prog Human Geog 28(6):807-814. Poon, J.P.H., 2005, Prog Human Geog 29(6):766-772. Zwiers, F.W. & Storch, H.V., 2004, Intl J. Climatology 24:665-680.
Jan 29, 12:30	Data/information presentation & use – Amy Lobben	Role of visualization assignment
Jan 31, 5 p.m.	Data/information presentation & use – Jim Meacham		Cartographic Principles - an overview Tufte, chapters 1 - 3 Williams, chapters 2 - 5 (very quick read) Browse the ColorBrewer web site.
Feb 5 - 12:30	Journals – advancing your research through knowing sources	Journal assignment due
Feb 7 - 5 p.m.	Research writing; formulating research questions & proposals	reminder - 2nd round research questions due on March 7	- Limerick, P., 1993. Dancing With Professors: The Trouble With Academic Prose. - Gregory, D., 2005. Geographies, Publics, and Politics NOTE - only read Gregory portion of forum (starts on page 182).
Feb 12 - 12:30	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 14 - 5 p.m.	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 19 - 12:30	H&T – 1900 – 1950	Annotated bibliographies due	- 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 21 - 5 p.m.	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”
Feb 26 - 12:30	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 28, 5 p.m.	H&T – Resurgence of Physical Geography: A Personalized Tale		- Revisit Leighley, 1955. - Thornthwaite, C.W., 1961. The task ahead. Bios: Sack, D., 2004. Experiences and viewpoints of selected women geomorphologists from the mid-20th Century. - Marcus, W.A. and Marcus, M.G., 1996. Geographer, Explorer, Friend: The Worlds of Barry C. Bishop, 1932-1994. - Browning, C.E., 1982. Melvin G. Marcus,
Mar 5, 12:30	H&T – Alternatives to positivism in Human Geography (1970s)		- 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”
Mar 7, 5 p.m.	H&T - Physical Geography: Paradigms and paradigm shifts in the late 20th Century	Turn in 2nd round research questions - submit electronically to both Murphy and Marcus	- James, L.A. and Marcus, W.A., 2006, The human role in changing fluvial systems: Retrospect, inventory, prospect. - Gleick, ., 1987. Chaos: Making a new science. Penguin Books, p. 1-56 - DoPG – Entries on “nonlinear system,” “threshold, geomorphological” “carbon dating” (also note many other entries under “dating” in the index), “digital image processing”
Mar 12, 12:30	H&T – Alternatives to positivism in Human Geography in the late 20th Century		- 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 14, 5 p.m.	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.

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