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The Department of Geography at California State University, Long Beach, has
developed four areas of active research and curricular development:
Environmental and Physical Geography
= Hazards
= Water resources
= Hydrology
= Biogeography
= Landscape restoration
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= Climatology
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Palæoclimatology/Palæoecology
= Arid environments
= GIS in environmental geography
= Environment and remote sensing
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= Responsible faculty:
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Drs. Holmgren, Laris, Lee, Rodrigue, and Wechsler, and
with 2005-06 adjunct faculty Messrs. Behrens and Ludwig and Ms. Wranic
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Human Geography
= Urban cultural geography
= Urban social geography
= Urban economic geography
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= Medical geography
= GIS in urban geography
= Geographies of tourism
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= Responsible faculty:
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Drs. Blazey, Curtis, Del Casino, Gossette, Jocoy, Sidorov, and Splansky
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Geospatial Techniques
= GIScience
= Remote sensing
= Cartography
= Spatial Statistics
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= Field methods
= Qualitative methods
= GPS
= Epistemology and ethics
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= Responsible faculty:
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Drs. Del Casino, Gossette, Laris, Lee, Rodrigue,
Splansky, and Wechsler, and Mr. Woods
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Global Studies
= World regional geography
= Globalization
= Uneven development
= Local change in global context
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= Latin America
= Asia
= Africa
= Europe and Russia
= The U.S. and California
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= Responsible faculty:
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Drs. Curtis, Del Casino, Gossette, Jocoy, Laris, Lee,
Sidorov, and Splansky
with 2005-06 adjunct faculty Drs. Karabenick, C. Carter,
McDaniels, and Sumner; Messrs. N. Carter, Ebiner, and Frazier;
and Ms. Wranic
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The Department of Geography also maintains four areas of teaching service to
the larger University community:
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Regional Geography
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with courses covering all major regions of the world
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General Education
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with lower division courses satisfying Natural Science and Social Science
requirements and interdisciplinary Explorations and Capstone courses for the
upper division General Education requirement
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Geographic Education
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including a joint position with the College of
Education and the Liberal Studies Program
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Extension Courses
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including a GIS Certificate offered through University College and Extension
Services
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