2010-2011 UF Graduate Catalog (PDF Format) - Graduate School ...

University of Florida Graduate School
Geography
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Graduate Faculty
Chair: N. J. Smith. Graduate Coordinator: J. Southworth.
Complete faculty listing by department: Follow this link
The Department of Geography offers the Master of Arts, Master of
Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Complete descriptions of
the minimum requirements for these degrees are provided in the
General Information section of this catalog.
The Department provides three main areas of specialization for
graduate research: economic and business geography and policy;
resource management and land use and land cover change; and
physical geography. Economic and business geography and policy
concerns such topics as technological change; entrepreneurship;
spatial economic theory; historic places; population change and
housing patterns; housing and care of the elderly; behavioral
geography; and internal urban structure. Resource management and
land use and land cover change focus on agricultural change and
resource conservation and development in the tropics and
subtropics, and rural and urban land use and land cover change in
tropical and temperate regions. Africa and Latin America are the
primary areas of regional emphasis. Physical geography in the
Department concentrates on climatology, coastal management,
fluvial geomorphology, and hydrology. The Department's extensive
geographic information system, remote sensing, and computer
cartography teaching and research facilities contribute to and
support all of the areas of research. Faculty from the Department
are also major participants in the Land Use and Environmental