UC Davis General Catalog, 2006-2008 - General Catalog - UC Davis
UC Davis General Catalog, 2006-2008 - General Catalog - UC Davis
UC Davis General Catalog, 2006-2008 - General Catalog - UC Davis
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284 Geology<br />
Margaret Swain, Ph.D., Associate Adjunct Professor<br />
(Anthropology)<br />
Susan Ustin, Ph.D., Professor<br />
(Land, Air, and Water Resources)<br />
Stefano Varese, Ph.D., Professor<br />
(Native American Studies)<br />
Charles Walker, Ph.D., Associate Professor (History)<br />
Wesley W. Wallender, Ph.D., Professor<br />
(Land, Air, and Water Resources)<br />
Miriam J. Wells, Ph.D., Professor<br />
(Human and Community Development)<br />
Diane Wolf, Ph.D., Professor (Sociology)<br />
Truman Young, Ph.D., Professor<br />
(Environmental Horticulture)<br />
Minghua, Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Adjunct Professor<br />
(Land Air and Water Resources)<br />
Emeriti Faculty<br />
Thomas A. Cahill, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus<br />
Dennis Dingemans, Ph.D., Associate Professor<br />
Emeritus (Geography)<br />
Jack Ives, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus<br />
Stephen Jett, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus<br />
Robert L. Thayer, Jr., M.A., Professor Emeritus<br />
Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor<br />
Emeritus<br />
Affiliated Faculty<br />
James Grieshop, Ph.D., Specialist, Cooperative<br />
Extension (Human and Community Development)<br />
Eric Larsen, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist,<br />
(Landscape Architecture)<br />
Greg McPherson, Ph.D., Researcher/Lecturer<br />
(Western Center for Urban Forest Research and<br />
Education)<br />
Charlene Sailor, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist<br />
Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr, Ph.D., Specialist<br />
(Cooperative Extension Specialist in Nutrition)<br />
Graduate Study. The Graduate Group in Geography<br />
offers programs of study and research leading<br />
to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Faculty and students<br />
share a common interest in spatial interaction<br />
between humans and the biophysical environment.<br />
Areas of thematic emphasis include biogeography,<br />
gender geography, agricultural geography, medicalnutritional<br />
geography, tourism, and environmental<br />
geography. Current research project locales include<br />
the Caribbean, eastern Europe and Russia, China,<br />
Japan, Africa, Latin America, and the United States<br />
(especially California).<br />
Preparation. Most students considered for admission<br />
will have an undergraduate major in geography<br />
or in a closely related field. <strong>General</strong>ly, a student<br />
without an undergraduate degree in geography will<br />
be required to complete the equivalent of a minor in<br />
geography, consisting of one course each in human<br />
geography, physical geography and geographic<br />
methods, plus an additional 9 units of geographic<br />
coursework. The student's guidance committee must<br />
certify fulfillment of this requirement.<br />
The wide faculty interests attract a diverse set of students<br />
in such areas as biogeography, urban forestry<br />
and related natural science and engineering fields,<br />
as well as human geography and related social science<br />
fields. A number of faculty members use and<br />
teach geographic information systems, remote sensing,<br />
and related geographic techniques, and many<br />
have a strong field orientation as well. The strengths<br />
of the <strong>Davis</strong> campus and its faculty enable the program<br />
to focus on several areas of emphasis where<br />
faculty expertise and student interest is greatest: biogeography,<br />
zoogeography, environmental and natural<br />
resource geography, gender and geography,<br />
tourism, agricultural geography and landscape<br />
architecture.<br />
Graduate Adviser. S. Brush (Human and Community<br />
Development), D. MacCannell (Landscape<br />
Architecture).<br />
Courses in Geography (GEO)<br />
Graduate Courses<br />
200A. Research Trends in Geography (1)<br />
Seminar—1 hour. Major current research themes<br />
and trends in geography. (S/U grading only.)<br />
200B. Geographical Concepts (4)<br />
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: undergraduate<br />
course work in geography or consent of<br />
instructor; graduate standing. Survey of key concepts<br />
and thematic content of the discipline of geography,<br />
including the role of science and humanism,<br />
the classical context of the discipline, and process,<br />
structure and scale.—I. (I.) Dingemans<br />
200C. Theory and Practice of Geography<br />
(4)<br />
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: graduate<br />
standing. Development of geographical theory; key<br />
concepts and theories; their chronology, and application<br />
to the practice of geography. Analytical background<br />
to geographical theory; application of<br />
theory to geographical practice and research<br />
projects.—II. (II.) Momsen<br />
200D. Research Methods in Geography (4)<br />
Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: graduate<br />
standing, courses 200B and 200C, or consent of<br />
instructor. Survey of research methods in geography,<br />
including the use of logic, theory and paradigms,<br />
research design, and analytical techniques, including<br />
statistics and modeling.—III. (III.)<br />
201. Sources and <strong>General</strong> Literature of<br />
Geography (4)<br />
Discussion—4 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing<br />
in geography; consent of instructor. Designed for students<br />
preparing for higher degrees in geography.<br />
May be repeated for credit in one or more of the following<br />
subfields: physical, cultural, economic,<br />
urban, historical, political, conservation, and<br />
regional geography.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)<br />
210. Topics in Biogeography (3)<br />
Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:<br />
Evolution and Ecology 147 or Wildlife, Fish, and<br />
Conservation Biology 156 (may be taken concurrently)<br />
or equivalent; consent of instructor for undergraduates.<br />
Current topics in historical and<br />
ecological biogeography, including macroecology<br />
and areography, GIS and remote sensing, phylogeography,<br />
vegetation, plant and animal community<br />
and species geography. Systematics, climate<br />
change, and conservation will be addressed.<br />
Offered in alternate years.—II. Shapiro<br />
280. Field Studies in Geography (3)<br />
Lecture—1 hour; fieldwork—6 hours. Prerequisite:<br />
undergraduate or graduate coursework in geography<br />
and consent of instructor. A topic or subdiscipline<br />
of geography will form the theme for the course<br />
in any given offering, with a focus on current<br />
research on this topic, field methodologies, and data<br />
analysis in human and physical geography. May be<br />
repeated two times for credit. Limited enrollment.<br />
—III. (III.) Elliott-Fisk<br />
290. Seminar: Selected Regions (4)<br />
Seminar—3 hours. Region to be announced annually.—I,<br />
II, III. (I, II, III.)<br />
291. Seminar in Cultural Geography (4)<br />
Seminar—3 hours.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)<br />
292. Seminar in Plant Geography (4)<br />
Seminar—3 hours; seminar paper. Prerequisite:<br />
graduate standing. Examination of that aspect of cultural<br />
plant geography dealing with human impacts<br />
and vegetation change in the earth’s major biomes.<br />
Particular emphasis on the New World’s savannas,<br />
deserts, and grasslands. Offered in alternate<br />
years.—I.<br />
293. Graduate Internship (1-12)<br />
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Individually<br />
designed, supervised internship, off campus, in community<br />
or institutional setting. Developed with advice<br />
of faculty mentor. May be repeated for credit. (S/U<br />
grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)<br />
295. Seminar in Urban Geography (4)<br />
Seminar—3 hours.—II. (II.)<br />
297. Graduate Group in Geography<br />
Seminar (2)<br />
Lecture/discussion—1 hour; term paper. Prerequisite:<br />
graduate standing. Seminars by <strong>UC</strong> <strong>Davis</strong> faculty<br />
and prominent national and international<br />
scholars; research presentations by Graduate Group<br />
in Geography Ph.D. candidates. May be repeated<br />
for credit. (S/U grading only.)<br />
298. Group Study (1-5)<br />
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (S/U grading<br />
only.)<br />
299. Research (1-12)<br />
(S/U grading only.)<br />
299D. Individual Study (1-12)<br />
Prerequisite: graduate student status in Geography<br />
and consent of instructor. (S/U grading only.)<br />
Professional Course<br />
396. Teaching Assistant Training Practicum<br />
(1-4)<br />
Prerequisite: graduate standing. May be repeated<br />
for credit. (S/U grading only.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)<br />
Geology<br />
(College of Letters and Science)<br />
Louise H. Kellogg, Ph.D., Chairperson of the Department<br />
David A. Osleger, Ph.D., Vice-Chairperson of the<br />
Department<br />
Department Office. 174 Physics/Geology<br />
Building<br />
(530) 752-0350; http://www.geology.ucdavis.edu<br />
Faculty<br />
Magali I. Billen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor<br />
Sandra J. Carlson, Ph.D., Professor<br />
William H. Casey, Ph.D., Professor (Chemistry)<br />
Kari M. Cooper, Ph.D. Assistant Professor<br />
Eric S. Cowgill, Ph.D. Assistant Professor<br />
Howard W. Day, Ph.D., Professor<br />
John F. Dewey, Ph.D., Professor<br />
James A. Doyle, Ph.D., Professor<br />
(Evolution and Ecology)<br />
Graham E. Fogg, Ph.D., Professor<br />
(Land, Air, and Water Resources)<br />
Tessa M. Hill, Ph.D., Assistant Professor<br />
Louise H. Kellogg, Ph.D., Professor<br />
Charles E. Lesher, Ph.D., Professor<br />
James S. McClain, Ph.D., Professor,<br />
Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award<br />
Isabel P. Montañez, Ph.D., Professor<br />
Ryosuke Motani, Ph.D. Associate Professor<br />
Jeffrey F. Mount, Ph.D., Professor<br />
Alexandra Navrotsky, Ph.D., Professor<br />
(Thermochemistry Facility, Chemistry)<br />
David A. Osleger, Ph.D., Lecturer<br />
John B. Rundle, Ph.D., Professor (Physics, Computational<br />
Science and Engineering)<br />
James R. Rustad, Ph.D., Professor<br />
Peter Schiffman, Ph.D., Professor<br />
Howard J. Spero. Ph.D., Professor<br />
Dawn Y. Sumner, Ph.D., Professor<br />
Donald L. Turcotte, Ph.D., Professor<br />
Geerat J. Vermeij, Ph.D., Professor<br />
Kenneth L. Verosub, Ph.D., Professor,<br />
Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award<br />
Qing-zhu Yin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor<br />
Robert A. Zierenberg, Ph.D., Professor<br />
Emeriti Faculty<br />
Richard Cowen, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Emeritus,<br />
Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award<br />
Charles G. Higgins, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus<br />
Robert A. Matthews, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Emeritus<br />
Eldridge M. Moores, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus<br />
Robert J. Twiss, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus<br />
The Major Programs<br />
“Civilization exists by geological consent—subject to<br />
change without notice.”—Will Durant<br />
Geology is the study of the Earth, and in particular<br />
the history, the structure, the evolution of life, and the<br />
processes that have molded the Earth and its inhabitants.<br />
The coming of the space age has also<br />
extended the field to include the solid planets of the<br />
Quarter Offered: I=Fall, II=Winter, III=Spring, IV=Summer; 2007-<strong>2008</strong> offering in parentheses<br />
<strong>General</strong> Education (GE) credit: ArtHum=Arts and Humanities; SciEng=Science and Engineering; SocSci=Social Sciences; Div=Social-Cultural Diversity; Wrt=Writing Experience