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ACADEMIC PLAN, ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS, AND<br />

FINANCIAL AID:<br />

UNDERGRADUATE: The University operates on a semester system and<br />

122 semester credit hours of acceptable course study in a planned<br />

curriculum are necessary to receive a degree. First year students must<br />

submit ACT scores and transfer students must provide transcripts<br />

from their institution for admission. Undergraduate scholarships,<br />

student employment and assistantships are available through the<br />

Department of Geography. Per the rules of the College of Arts &<br />

Sciences, all undergraduate geography majors are required to take a<br />

minor outside of geography.<br />

GRADUATE: Graduate courses are concentrated during the Fall and<br />

Spring semesters, although academic progress may be accelerated<br />

through independent study during the Summer I and II terms. Students<br />

with at least a 3.0 grade-point average (A=4.0) during the last four<br />

semesters of undergraduate work are eligible for admission to the<br />

program. Students make general application for admission thorough<br />

the Admission Office online site. Teaching and Research<br />

Assistantships for the academic year (September-April) are available.<br />

Applications for financial assistantship submitted to the Department of<br />

Geography. Graduate assistants are provided office space, as are other<br />

graduate students insofar as possible.<br />

FACULTY:<br />

Kathleen Baker, Ph.D., Michigan State, 2002, Associate Professor &<br />

Acting Director, W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of<br />

Geographical Change — geographic information systems,<br />

physical geography, geoddata information processing, global<br />

positioning systems, computer mapping, surveying techniques,<br />

remote sensing, geospatial techniques, spatial analysis,<br />

quantitative methods agricultural and biogeography<br />

Matthew Borr, M.A. Western Michigan University, Instructor —<br />

geographic information systems, physical geography<br />

Stephen R. Cameron, ABD, Michigan State, 2007, Instructor — Latin<br />

America & land cover change, regional geography, geospatial<br />

techniques<br />

Lisa DeChano, Ph.D., Southwest Texas, 2000, Associate Professor —<br />

environmental geography, physical geography, hazards,<br />

environmental impacts, sports geography, space studies, general<br />

physics<br />

Todd Ellis,PhD, Colorado State University, 2008, Assistant Professor<br />

— meteorology and climatology, earth science education k-12,<br />

informal atmospheric, remote sensing,<br />

Charles Emerson, Ph.D., Iowa, 1996, Associate Professor —<br />

geographic information systems, global positioning systems,<br />

computer mapping, surveying techniques, remote sensing,<br />

geospatial techniques, spatial analysis, quantitative methods<br />

Michael Gutowsky, M.A. Western Michigan University, Instructor —<br />

geographic information systems, physical geography, political<br />

geography, remote sensing, regional geography<br />

Lucius Hallett IV, Ph.D., Kansas, 2007. Associate Professor —<br />

human geography, tourism and travel, culinary geography and<br />

food networks, regional geography, agricultural geography,<br />

agritourism<br />

Rebecca Harvey, M.A., Western Michigan University, 1988, AICP<br />

American Institute of Certified Planners, PCP State of Michigan<br />

Professional Community Planner, Instructor — community and<br />

regional planning, planning zoning, groundwater protection,<br />

local land use, development of open space, community planning<br />

consultant<br />

Chansheng He, Ph.D., Michigan State, 1992, Professor — natural<br />

resource management, geographic information systems,<br />

agricultural zoning, agronomy, physical geography, water<br />

resource management<br />

David Lemberg, Ph.D., AICP, California-Santa Barbara, 1998,<br />

Associate Professor — community and regional development<br />

planning<br />

James McManus, M.A. Western Michigan University, 1992, B.S.<br />

Valparaiso University, 1987, AICP American Institute of<br />

Certified Planners, PCP State of Michigan Professional<br />

Community Planner, Instructor — geographic information<br />

systems (GIS), physical geography, community and regional<br />

planning, planning zoning, groundwater protection, local land<br />

use, soil erosion program, county planning director since 1994<br />

Lei Meng, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2009, Assistant Professor<br />

— land-atmospheric interactions, meteorology and climatology,<br />

geo-hydrology & engineering geology, soil physics<br />

Benjamin Ofori-Amoah, Ph.D., Simon Fraser, 1990, Professor,<br />

Department Chair & Acting Director, W.E. Upjohn Center for<br />

the Study of Geographical Change — economic geography,<br />

economic development, urban and regional planning, geographic<br />

information systems, Africa<br />

Joseph P. Stoltman, Ed.D., Georgia, 1971, Professor — geographic<br />

education, cultural geography, cartographic visualization<br />

Gregory Veeck, Ph.D., Georgia, 1988, Professor — economic<br />

geography, agricultural geography, China, qualitative methods,<br />

research methods in geography, agritourism, political geography<br />

JessicaWesel, M.A. Western Michigan University — environmental<br />

geography<br />

Li Yang, Ph.D., Waterloo, 2007, Associate Professor — tourism<br />

planning, tourism marketing, and cultural tourism<br />

Laiyin Zhu, Ph.D., Texas A&M University,2013, Assistant Professor<br />

— land-atmospheric interactions, meteorology and climatology,<br />

geo-hydrology & engineering geology, soil physics, geographic<br />

information systems<br />

ADJUNCT FACULTY:<br />

Michelle Metro-Roland, PhD, Indiana University, 2008 — cultural<br />

and urban geography, landscape, tourism, semiotics<br />

EMERITI FACULTY:<br />

David G. Dickason, PhD, Indiana — land and water resources<br />

assessment, geodata information processing, South Asia<br />

Val Eichenlaub, Ph.D., Ohio State — meteorology and climatology,<br />

U.S. and Canada<br />

Rainer R. Erhart, Ph.D., Illinois — remote sensing, physical<br />

geography, biogeography<br />

Charles F. Heller, Ph.D., Illinois — agriculture, urban social,<br />

historical geography<br />

Eugene C. Kirchherr, Ph.D., Northwestern — urban geography, urban<br />

and regional planning, Sub-Saharan Africa, political<br />

Philip P. Micklin, Ph.D., Washington — post-Soviet states,<br />

conservation, environmental impact assessment, Aral Sea<br />

Eldor C. Quandt, Ph.D., Michigan State — tourism and travel,<br />

population, Scandinavia<br />

Hans J. Stolle, Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison — cartography, computer<br />

graphics, remote sensing, cartographic visualization<br />

W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change:<br />

Kathleen Baker, Ph.D., Michigan State, 2002, Associate Professor &<br />

Acting Director, W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of<br />

Geographical Change — geographic information systems,<br />

physical geography, geoddata information processing, global<br />

positioning systems, computer mapping, surveying techniques,<br />

remote sensing, geospatial techniques, spatial analysis,<br />

quantitative methods agricultural and biogeography<br />

Gregory Anderson, B.S., Western Michigan — geographic<br />

information system analysis<br />

Kevin Agema, B.S., Western Michigan — geographic information<br />

system analysis<br />

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