GEOG 2251
Geographical Inquiry and Interpretation
Winter 2025
Topics
- Are You a Geographer
- No Lab th
- Jobs for Geographers: Feldman p8
- Early Geography Holt Jensen 16th Lab 1 Place Names
- rd Lab 2 Distance Decay
- Geographic Terms: Feldman pp7
- Concepts and Maps: pp9-12
- Map Projections Feldman pp 18-24 th
- Mental Maps Feldman pp26=28 th Lab 4 Mental Maps
- Bar Graphs Hay & Giles Chp 8 th Lab 5 Choropleth
- Line Graphs, Tables Lab 6 Street
- Tues th
- Making Presentations Hay &Giles Chp
- Showing Movement
- Making boundaries Lab 8 Main Street
- Primary Data Hays & Giles Chp 2 Lab 9 Population
- Lab 10 Web page
- Class Presentations
- M 31/Sampling Hay & Giles Chp4
- So What Did I Learn
Readings
- Required: Lectures: Text: Communicating in Geography and the Environmental Sciences Iain Hay and Philip Giles (2006) 2nd Canadian Edition. 1st edition is significantly different. We will use in weeks 4 though 12
- Required: Feldman & Getis (2009) Human Geography Chapter One is posted on D2L for weeks 1-5
- Required: Holt-Jensen, Arild (2009) Geography History and Concepts 4th ed. Sage: Los Angeles (You do not have to buy this book, but it is useful for weeks 2 & 3 so on reserve in library)
- Required: Labs Text: Human Geography Lab Manual (2013) Hackett, Noble and Gunn, Oxford
Fall 2024
Topics
- Geographical research traditions and design
- literature reviews and secondary data
- historical sources
- hypothesis testing
- qualitative fieldwork and interviews
- transcript, archival and visual analysis
- quantitative observations and measurement
- numerical modeling
- remote sensing
- statistics, geostatistics, mapping and GIS.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2025
- Course source ↗
- syllabus ↗Fall 2024
- Course source ↗
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.
- No named reading list identified. Term follows the official 2024–25 archive, FA section and September–December schedule. The false automatic Summer 2006 date came from office number RC 2006A, not a course date.