2014-2015 Academic Catalog

May 21, 2024

2014-2015 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GEOG 338 - Current Research in Geography

This course will expose students to cutting-edge research across the range of geography and cognate disciplines, primarily via close engagement with a series of visiting speakers and their works. It will complement the other required courses for first year graduate students in the department, Geography 368 (The Development of Western Geographic Thought) and Geography 318 (Explanation in Geography): where they provide historical and conceptual approaches to the development and content of the discipline, Geography 328 will have students engage with specific, grounded, and current examples of geographic research and the ongoing development of the discipline, with particular attention to full coverage of its breadth. The course, run in conjunction with the department’s colloquium series, will include required attendance at each of the lectures by speakers in the series; readings of selected articles or other works by visiting scholars prior to their visits; and class sessions with visiting scholars to discuss the works read, the lecture, and current research in the visitors’ areas of expertise. Students will write papers critically analyzing the talks and papers in terms of both content and presentation, and situating them within both the discipline and interdisciplinary fields of inquiry.
The course will be required for first-year graduate students in geography, and open to other graduate students and senior undergraduate majors with permission of the instructor.

Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 (we expect to offer this course both semesters every year).