Mar 29, 2024  
2011-2012 Graduate Catalog 
    
2011-2012 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Geography


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http://web.utk.edu/~utkgeog/

Carol Harden, Interim Head

Professors
Foresta, R.A., PhD - Rutgers
Harden, C.P., PhD - Colorado
Horn, S.P., PhD - California (Berkeley)
Pulsipher, L.M., PhD - Southern Illinois
Ralston, B.A., PhD - Northwestern
Shaw, S.L., PhD - Ohio State
 
Associate Professors
Grissino-Mayer, H. D., PhD - Arizona
Kalafsky, R. V., PhD - New York (Buffalo)
Tran, L.T., PhD - Hawaii
 
Assistant Professors
Inwood, J.F., PhD - Georgia
Li, Y.K., PhD - Beijing
Nagle, M. N., PhD - California (Santa Barbara)
Sharma, M., PhD - Ohio State
Van Riemsdijk, M., PhD - Colorado
 
Adjunct Faculty
Kappelle, M., PhD - Amsterdam
Lane, C.S., PhD - Tennessee
Liu, C., PhD - Tennessee
Orvis, K.H., PhD - California (Berkeley)
Zanetta, M.C., PhD - Ohio State
 
MAJOR DEGREES
Geography 
MS, PhD


 The master’s degree emphasizes development of professional competence as a geographer and offers opportunities to gain substantial depth in a concentration or a major technique. An emphasis in geographic information science is available for students who have appropriate backgrounds in mathematics and computer science. The doctoral program is for those who have demonstrated proficiency in conducting independent research. The department is particularly well-qualified to direct graduate work in location analysis, transportation geography, urban and rural geography, cultural ecology, and the geography of the natural environment (especially biogeography and geomorphology). The faculty is qualified to direct students from a variety of approaches ranging from historical and humanistic to rigorously analytic and GIS-based.

 

Environmental Policy Minor
The department participates in a program designed to give graduate students an opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary specialization in environmental policy. See Department of Political Science  for program description.

 

Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science (IGMCS)
The Department of Geography participates in the interdisciplinary graduate minor in computational science (IGMCS) program. Any student pursuing a master’s or PhD with a major in geography can receive a minor in computational science by completing the appropriate IGMCS requirements. For additional information, see the description of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science  listed under Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or visit the IGMCS website at http://igmcs.utk.edu/.

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