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Instructor's E-mail Address: lapaloma@ecst.csuchico.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-11 a.m.; Wednesday 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Examination of retail, service, and industrial location decision processes. Use of geographic information systems, quantitative methods, and field techniques to analyze and optimize business locations.
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in or prior completion of GEOG 215 or equivalent. Contact instructor.
The course will be operated most of the time in a seminar/light lecture format. Students are responsible for doing the readings each week, preparing to discuss and critique their main ideas, and identifying problem areas to be clarified in class discussions. There will be some weeks in which they class will meet, not at the scheduled time, but in the field on a weekend day to learn the basics of field observation, mapping, and analysis, as practiced by location analysts. Students will be assigned to research teams to carry out these field assignments and a major business location project and present their results. These presentations will occupy the last part of the semester.
Class contribution, attendance, and exercises will count for forty percent of your grade. The team research project will count for sixty percent, comprising both a team and an individual aspect to the grade, as described above.