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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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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, geography forms a bridge between the physical and human environments. Thus, geographers have long applied integrated multidisciplinary approaches to solve real-world problems.

Geography Department News
Summer Session 2005
The Department of Geography at California State University, Long Beach, has developed three 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. Del Casino, Gossette, Laris, Lee, Rodrigue, Splansky, Tyner, and Wechsler, and Mr. Woods

* Environmental and Physical Geography
       =   Hazards
       =   Water resources
       =   Hydrology
       =   Biogeography
       =   Landscape restoration
       =   Climatology
       =   Palæoclimatology
       =   Arid environments
       =   GIS in environmental geography
       =   Environment and remote sensing
       =   Responsible faculty:
  Drs. Laris, Lee, Rodrigue, and Wechsler, and
with 2004-05 adjunct faculty Messrs. Behrens and Ludwig and Ms. Wranic

* Human Geography (Urban and International)
       =   Urban cultural geography
       =   Urban social geography
       =   Urban economic geography
       =   Medical geography
       =   GIS in urban geography
       =   Geographies of tourism
       =   Responsible faculty:
  Drs. Curtis, Del Casino, Gossette, Jocoy, and Sidorov
with 2004-05 adjunct faculty Drs. Karabenick, Blue, C. Carter, McDaniels, and Sumner; Messrs. Behrens, N. Carter, Frazier, Lajoie, and Senn; and Ms. Wranic and Moriarty

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
including a joint position with the College of Education and the Liberal Studies Program
* Extension Courses
including a GIS Certificate offered through University College and Extension Services
Revised: 06/07/05
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