Geography 696
ProSeminar II

Tentative Topics:
  1. Introduction and Objectives
  2. The Nature of Research in Geography
  3. Bibliographic and Library Techniques
  4. Identifying a Research Topic
  5. The Research Proposal & Specifics of the NSF Model
  6. A Framework for Knowledge
  7. Humanistic Frameworks
  8. Fieldwork in Foreign Countries
  9. Field Methods in Physical Geography
  10. Field Methods in Human geography
  11. Using Secondary and Census Data
  12. Writing Geographically
  13. Statistical Reasoning
  14. The Cartographic Method and GIS/Spatial Analysis
  15. Ethics and Geographic Research
  16. Final Proposal Presentations