Data, Evidence, and Methods in Geographic Inquiry

Topics

• 1. Identifying, compiling, and working with qualitative and quantitative data types that are relevant to the main fields within geography through field and library / archive research methods. 2. Generating research questions - What is where? Who is where? Asking when (history); asking why (explanation); asking how: processes, relations, and interactions. 3. Using one’s research questions to explore, propose, hypothesize, characterize, analyze, explain, demonstrate, refute, adapt, and finalize one’s findings. 4. Gaining proficiency in using archival sources of information; primary documents. 5. Gaining conceptual and empirical familiarity with core meta-concepts in geography, and reading and interpreting humanized and biophysical landscapes. 6. Engaging change over space in geographic inquiry; working with temporal change. 7. Reading critically and characterizing a reading for the WHAT, the SO WHAT and the NOW WHAT of a reading.

Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes