Geography Graduate Group

"The Geography Graduate Group at UCDavis offers an interdisciplinary academic program emphasizing spatial interactions between humans and the biophysical environment. Like all graduate groups at UCDavis, the GGG is its own entity, 'floating' above the academic departments on campus, incorporating the best faculty on campus from diverse, yet interrelated areas. Faculty interests include..." more

Projects

Community Mural, Knights Landing CA, 2006
World of Davis Game
GLOBAL: geography club
Human Geography Research Group
Physical Geography Research Group

Classes

Graduate geography classes are taught by professors in a variety of different fields, such as history, anthropology, geology, and various environmental science disciplines. Geography classes are available under other course listings (for example: CRD, PLS, and ABT) for undergraduates and graduate students. Graduate courses listed as geography are also still offered and sometimes available to undergraduates with permission from the instructor. Please see the list below for geography classes currently being offered at UCD.

Fall 2008

GEO 200A

GEO 200B

GEO 297

SPRING 2008

HYD 286 — Topics in Remote Sensing

GEO 298 — natural history journaling

ECL 290 — Spatial Statisitcs

PLS/PLB 102 — California Floristics

PLS 298 — Spatial Statistics

GEO 298 — Spatial Technologies

GEO 200D — Geography Methods

WINTER 2008 UCD Geography Classes

Geography 210 — Biogeography

Geography 297 — Seminar

GEO 298- — Geography Studio - QGIS, R

LDA 280 — Landscape Conservation

TTP 289 — Road Ecology

PLS 162 — Urban Ecology

GEO 200C — Theory & Concepts in Geography

FALL 2007 UCD Geography Classes

ABT/PLS 180 — Introduction to GIS

Meeting Time: MWF 8:00-9:00 am, Wellman 26

Labs M 11:00 - 4:00, W 11:00 - 4:00, T 9:00 - 12:00, R 9:00 - 12:00

Geography 200A & 200B

Geography 298 — Advanced Computing in Geography

A self directed course to explore alternative GIS methodologies through collaborative coding. Notes, Syllabus and Code available at: https://svn.cse.ucdavis.edu/trac/geo298-09f07/

Seminars

The Group Sponsors many Seminars and Study Groups on geography topics. See the list on their website.

Courses Offered

ABT/PLS 180 — Introduction to GIS

ABT/LDA 185

AHI 168 — Great Cities (4)

Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Transformation in architecture and urban form in Paris, London, and Vienna in the context of varying social, political, and economic systems as well as very different cultural traditions, concentrating on the years 1830-1914.

ANT/STS — Scientific Visualizations

Instructor Joe Dumit

ANT/STS 201 — Critical Readings in Ethnography (4)

Seminar—3 hours; term paper. Critical readings of selected ethnographies that examine a wide range of important topics and analytical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Emphasis on how and why ethnographic writing has changed over time and its relationship with contemporary theoretical explorations. Instructor Joe Dumit Science and Technology Studies

ECI 165 — Transportation Policy

ECL 206 — Plant Community Ecology

Various sampling methods and multivariate statistical analysis. Field trips/labs and papers have a geographic component. Instructor: Marcel Rejmanek

ECL 207 — Plant Population Biology

This class has both a geographic and population modeling component. Instructor: Kevin Rice

EDU 205A — Ethnographic Research I

Full Title: Ethnographic Research in Schools I: Current Theory and Practice

Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Current literature from anthropology and society related to schools. Emphasis on the organizational structure of institutions, and the analysis of face-to-face interaction. Will explore the relationship between field-based research and theory development on the acquisition of knowledge in specific social and cultural contexts. Instructor Karen Watson-Gegeo

EDU 209 Image-based Field Research

Lecture/discussion—3 hours; fieldwork—2 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing or upper division standing with consent of instructor. Critical and practical understanding of video tape and still photography as resources for enhancing field research in schools and other social setting. Offered in alternate years.—I. (I.) Wagner

ERS 186 — Introduction to Remote Sensing

Geography 200A

Geography 200B

Geography 200C

Geography 200D

HYD 286 — Topics in Remote Sensing

LDA 201 Theory and Philosophy of the Designed Environment

Seminar—4 hours. Examines the major theories of environmental design. Epistemology of design serves as framework to examine modern landscape architecture, architecture, urban design and planning. Normative theories of design are reviewed along with the social and environmental sciences. Offered in alternate years.—Francis

LDA 205(Previously 204) — Physical Planning and Design

Description:
This course introduces students to the regulation, design, and development of the built landscape. It will investigate planning and land development processes, zoning and subdivision regulation, site planning, urban design goals and methods, and public participation strategies. Throughout, the aim is to give students an understanding of how built landscapes evolve, and how they can be creatively designed in the future to meet community and ecological goals. This class is appropriate for students in landscape architecture, community development, geography, and environmental planning programs, as well as others interested in place-making strategies beyond the building scale. The emphasis in this class is on "learning by doing;" in addition to lecture, the course will emphasize sketch exercises, short assignments, group discussion, and field trips to observe the physical environment firsthand.
Instructor
Stephen M. Wheeler, Ph.D., AICP

LDA 260 Landscape and Power

Seminar—4 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. How various representations of landscape have historically worked as agents of cultural power. Course framework is interdisciplinary, including studies of landscape representation in literature, art, photography, cartography, cinema, and landscape architecture.—Schenker

LDA 280 Landscape Conservation

Seminar—3 hours. Focus is on land planning, design, and management techniques to further the goal of resource preservation. Examines current critical theory in the establishment and management of conservation areas. Offered in alternate years.—Greco

Classes We Would Like to See

Please describe courses you would like to see added to the UCD curriculum.

Cartography

Upper Division Undergraduate

Data Display
Graphical Methods
Drafting
Possible Texts

Tufte

Possible Departments: LDA

Web Mapping

Upper Division Undergraduate

Ethics and Technologies of web based maps.
Possible Texts

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmapping/ Web Mapping Illustrated
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mappinghks/ Mapping Hacks

Possible Departments: ESP

Databases

Spatial
Temporal
Principals, Design and Implementation for small and large projects
Possible Departments: CS

Geography Education

Graduate

Methods and Concepts of teaching geography to varying target levels(elementary->university, general public, professionals)
Possible Departments: GGG/EDU

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