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[ Logo Image: Old map of Planet Earth fading into images of California State University, Long Beach ] 		Department of Geography
College of Liberal Arts
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California State University
Long Beach, CA 90840-1101 USA
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 [ NASA image of Earth, Chair: Dr. C.M. Rodrigue, 1 (562) 985- 8432, Office: LA4-106 ]
 
Geographers study the interaction between human societies and their environments, characterize the regions and localities that result, and analyze the spatial distributions and processes of particular natural and human phenomena. Being equally a natural science and a social science equipped with geographical information science techniques, geography integrates the physical and human environments. Thus, geographers have long applied integrated multidisciplinary approaches to solve real-world problems at all spatial scales from local to global.

Geography Department News
The Department of Geography at California State University, Long Beach, has developed four areas of active research and curricular development:

* Geospatial Techniques
       =   GIScience
       =   Remote sensing
       =   Cartography
       =   Spatial Statistics
 		       =   Field methods
       =   Qualitative methods
       =   GPS
       =   Epistemology and ethics
       =   Responsible faculty:
  Drs. Ban, Dallman, Del Casino, Gossette, Jocoy, Laris, Lee, Mills, Rodrigue, Thien, and Wechsler
with Fall 2009 adjunct faculty Dr. McDaniel

* Environmental and Physical Geography
       =   Hazards
       =   Water resources
       =   Hydrology
       =   Biogeography
       =   Landscape restoration
 		       =   Climatology
       =   Palæoclimatology/Palæoecology
       =   Arid environments
       =   GIS in environmental geography
       =   Environment and remote sensing
       =   Responsible faculty:
  Drs. Dallman, Laris, Lee, Mills, Rodrigue, and Wechsler, and
with Fall 2009 adjunct faculty Dr. Pepper and Ms. Wranic

* Human Geography
       =   Urban cultural geography
       =   Urban social geography
       =   Urban economic geography
 		       =   Medical geography
       =   GIS in urban geography
       =   Geographies of tourism
       =   Responsible faculty:
  Drs. Ban, Curtis, Del Casino, Jocoy, Sidorov, and Thien
with Fall 2009 adjunct faculty Dr. Lassiter and Messrs. N. Carter, and Frazier

* Global Studies
       =   World regional geography
       =   Globalization
       =   Uneven development
       =   Gender and development
       =   Local change/global context
 		       =   Latin America
       =   Asia
       =   Africa
       =   Europe and Russia
       =   The U.S. and California
       =   Responsible faculty:
  Drs. Baruah, Curtis, Del Casino, Gossette, Jocoy, Laris, Lee, Sidorov, and Thien
with Fall 2009 adjunct faculty Drs. Lassiter and McDaniel; Messrs. N. Carter and Frazier; and Ms. Wranic

The Department of Geography also maintains four areas of teaching service to the larger University community:

* Regional Geography
with courses covering all major regions of the world
* General Education
with lower division courses satisfying Natural Science and Social Science requirements and interdisciplinary Explorations and Capstone courses for the upper division General Education requirement
* Geographic Education
ties with the College of Education and the Liberal Studies Program
ties with the Yadunandan India Studies Center
expertise in curriculum and program assessment
* Extension Courses
including a GIS Certificate offered through University College and Extension Services
Revised: 04/05/17
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