Readings, in order of assignment (Spring 1999)

Introduction to Graduate School (2 February)

Hornbeck, D. 1989.

So ... you wanna go to graduate school? In On Becoming a Professional Geographer, ed. M.S. Kenzer, pp. 10-16. Columbus, OH, and other places: Merrill.

Feingold, A. 1990.

Understanding your advisor: A survivor's guide for beginning graduate students. Journal of Polymorphous Perversity 7, 1: 12-14.

Pierce, D.L. 1990.

Understanding your doctoral dissertation committee: A survivor's guide for advanced graduate students. Journal of Polymorphous Perversity 7, 2: 19-20.

Scientific Method and Its Interrogation in Geography (10 February)

Duncan, N. 1996.

Postmodernism in human geography. In Concepts in Human Geography, ed. C. Earle, K. Mathewson, and M.S. Kenzer, pp. 429-458. Lanham, MD, and London: Rowman and Littlefield.

Kerlinger, F.N.. 1973.

Science and the scientific approach. Ch. 1 of his Foundations of Behavioral Research, pp. 2-15.

Literature Content Analysis and Human Geography (16 February)

Anonymous. n.d.

Transylvania, seen from Southern California. Unpubl. seminar paper, California State University, Northridge.

O'Laughlin, J. and Grant, R. 1990.

The political geography of presidential speeches, 1946-87. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 80, 4: 504-530.

Rodrigue, C.M. and Rovai, E. 1995.

The "Northridge" earthquake: Differential geographies of damage, media attention, and recovery. National Social Science Perspectives Journal 7, 3: 97-111.

GIS Applications in Physical Geography and Issues (23 February)

Burrough, P.A., and McDonnell, R.A. 1998.

Geographical information: Society, science, and systems (Ch. 1) and Current issues and trends in GIS (Ch. 12). In their Principles of Geographical Information Systems, 1-16, 292-297. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (recommended reading)

Butler, D.R., and Walsh, S.J. 1990.

Lithologic, structural, and topographic influences on snow-avalanche path location, eastern Glacier National Park, Montana. Annals, Association of American Geographers 80, 3: 362-378.

Miller, R.P. 1992.

Beyond method, beyond ethics: Integrating social theory into GIS and GIS into social theory. Proceedings, GIS/LIS: 585-592.

O'Brien, K.L. 1998.

Tropical deforestation and climate change: What does the record reveal? The Professional Geographer 50, 1: 140-153.

Qualitative Methods in Human Geography: Issues and Examples (2 March)

Maxwell, J.A. 1992.

Understanding and validity in qualitative research. Harvard Educational Review 62, 3: 279-300.

Herod, A. 1993.

Gender issues in the use of interviewing as a research method. The Professional Geographer 45, 3: 305-317.

Morgan, D.L. 1988.

Focus groups as a qualitative method. Section 2. and The uses of focus groups. Section 3. In Ch. 1 of his Focus Groups as Qualitative Research, pp. 15-38.

The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and the Ecological Fallacy (9 March)

Openshaw, S. 1983.

The modifiable areal unit problem. Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography 38: 1-41.

King, G. 1997.

Qualitative Overview. Ch. 1 of his A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data , pp. 3-27. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Available at: http://gking.harvard.edu/eicamera/kinroot.html, from the Chapter 1: Qualitative Overview link.

Time and the Use of Historical Sources (16 March)

Hornbeck, D.; Earle, C.; and Rodrigue, C.M. 1996.

The way we were: Deployments (and redeployments) of time in human geography. In Concepts in Human Geography, ed. C. Earle, K. Mathewson, and M.S. Kenzer, pp. 33-61. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Morin, K.M. and Kay Guelke, J. 1998.

Strategies of representation, relationship, and resistance: British women travelers and Mormon plural wives, ca. 1870-1890. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88, 3: 436-462.

Cowell, C.M. 1995.

Presettlement piedmont forests: Patterns of composition and disturbance in central Georgia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, 1: 65-83.

The Process of Getting through Your Thesis/Project (30 March)

Rudestam, K.E. and Newton, R.R. 1992.

Overcoming barriers: Becoming an expert while controlling your own destiny. Ch. 8 of their Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, pp. 131-144. Newbury Park, CA, and other places: Sage.

Veroff, J. 1992.

Writing. Ch. 9 of Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process, ed. K.E. Rudestam and R.R. Newton, pp. 145-167. Newbury Park, CA, and other places: Sage.

Reidenberg, M.M. 1974.

A mechanism for the evaluation of the importance of research results. The Journal of Irreproducible Results 21, 1: 3.

Multi-Method Research (20 April)

McKendrick, J.H. 1999.

Multi-method research: An introduction to its application in population geography. The Professional Geographer 51, 1: 40-50.

Winchester, H.P.M. 1999.

Interviews and questionnaires as mixed methods in population geography: The case of lone fathers in Newcastle, Australia. The Professional Geographer 51, 1: 60-67.

Sporton, D. 1999.

Mixing methods in fertility research. The Professional Geographer 51, 1: 68-76.

Graham, E. 1999.

Breaking out: The opportunities and challenges of multi-method research in population geography. The Professional Geographer 51, 1: 76-89.

Geomorphology: Surface Waters (27 April)

King, G. 1992.

Geomorphology of piedmont vernal pool basins. The California Geographer 32: 19-38.

McArthur, D.S. and Hope, A.S. 1993.

A physiographic streamflow model for small Sierra Nevada basins. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 55: 66-75.

Locke W.W. and Wyckoff, W.K. 1993.

A method for assessing the planimetric accuracy of historical maps: The case of the Colorado-Green river system. The Professional Geographer 45, 4: 416-424.

Planning (4 May)

Solnit, A. 1988.

Ethics and the planner. In The Job of the Practicing Planner, ed. A. Solnit, with C. Reed, P. Glassford, and D. Erley, pp. 173-180.

Ozawa, C.P. and Seltzer, E.P. 1999.

Taking our bearings: Mapping a relationship among planning practice, theory, and education. Journal of Planning Education and Research 18, 3: 257-266.

Buntin, S. 1995.

Environmental liberty and social justice for all: How advocacy planning can help combat environmental racism. Reports @igc. http://www.igc.apc.org/envjustice/ejplan.html.

Bank of America. 1996.

Beyond sprawl: New patterns of growth to fit the new California. Radical Urban Theory. http://www.exuberance.com/rut/misc/beyondSprawl.html.

Non-Academic Career Possibilities (11 May)

Richardson, D.B. 1989.

Doing geography: A perspective on geography in the private sector. In On Becoming a Professional Geographer, ed. M.S. Kenzer, pp. 66-74. Columbus, OH, and other places: Merrill.

Warf, B. 1989.

Geographers and government employment. In On Becoming a Professional Geographer, ed. M.S. Kenzer, pp. 75-85. Columbus, OH, and other places: Merrill.

No Readings (18 May)

The Majestic Final Draft of your proposal is due.

With the proposal, please include a signed statement from a tenured or tenure-track faculty member in the department that s/he is willing to serve as your committee chair. This can be nothing more than a one-liner with a signature.

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