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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 Murphy reading assignments. Guest lecture readings are not listed.)
Jan 7	Course Intro: Journal & annotated bibliography assignments, Moving toward round 2 research questions	Journal assignment & Annotated bibliography assignments handed out
Jan 9	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. 14	Formulating research questions (techniques) – Amy Lobben		- Lobben NIH Proposal. - Kwan, 2002. Feminist Visualization. - Brown et al, 2007. Assessing Uncertainty in Spatial Landscape Metrics Derived from Remote Sensing Data.
Jan. 16	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 21	Martin Luther King Day	No Class	No Class
Jan. 23	Research Writing	reminder - 2nd round research questions due on March 5	- 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).
Jan. 28	Journals – advancing your research through knowing sources	Journal assignment due
Jan. 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. 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. 6	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. 11	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 13	H&T – Resurgence of Physical Geography: A Personalized Tale (Andrew Marcus)		- 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,
Feb. 18	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. 20	Quantitative and System Concerns in Physical Geography (70s-80s) - Pat McDowell		- Selections from Gregory, K., The Changing Nature of Physical Geography #1 #2 DoPG - Entries on "systems," "equilibrium," and "threshold, geomorphological"
Feb 22		Annotated bibliographies due
Feb. 25	Environmental Processes and Environmental Change in Physical Geography (80s-90s) - Patrick (Bart) Bartlein		- Selections from Gregory, K., The Changing Nature of Physical Geography #1 #2 DoPG - Entries on "habitat," "carbon dating" (also note many other entries under "dating" in the index), and "digital image processing"
Feb. 27	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 3	No Class		Attend Dan Buck's Talk, 3:30 pm, Lillis 127
Mar 5	H&T – Structuration Theory and Critical Realism (80s)		- Pred, A. Place as Historically Contingent Process - Gregson, N. On Dualities and Dualism. - DoHG – Entries on “structuration theory,” “realism,”
Mar. 10	H&T - The rise of poststructuralist and feminist geography	Turn in 2nd round research questions - submit electronically to Murphy	[Tentative Readings - Subject to Change] - 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 “modernity,” “postmodernism,” “feminist geographies”
Mar. 12	H&T- The GIScience Revolution		The GIS History Project Rediscovering Geography Committee, 1997. Rediscovering geography: New relevance for science and society. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., Chapter 4 (Geography’s techniques), p. 47-69. Schuurman, Nadine, 2000. Trouble in the heartland: GIS and its critics in the 1990s. Progress in Human Geography, 24:569-590.
Mar 17 or 18 Time TBA	Discussion of 2nd round research questions		(Make-up class for March 3)
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: 09/25/08 11:33 AM Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, 97403-1251