GEOG 3420: Research Design and Field Studies
GEOG 3420 is a required course for undergraduate honours geography majors at York University. Students should see the Department of Geography Undergraduate Supplementary Calendar for a complete list of degree requirements.
The official course description is as follows:
The unofficial course description will follow.
This weblog has been created for students enrolled in Section B of GEOG 3420 3.0 in the 2006-07 fall term. Lectures will be held on Fridays in the Ross Building, North Ross Room 143, from 12:30 until 4:30 om.
Your Course Director: Amy Lavender Harris (e-mail: alharris@yorku.ca); office location South Ross 401, office hours Fridays 11:30 to 12:30 am. Amy is a part-time faculty member in the Department of Geography. She holds an undergraduate degree in Geography and Literature from Queen's University, a master's degree in urban planning, also from Queen's, and another master's degree in industrial relations, from the University of mToronto. Her research interests include Toronto literature and literary geography, Canadian literature, city spaces and their meanings, architectural salvage, ecological phenomenology, the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, narratives of nature, finitude, and regeneration. In addition to researching and teaching at York for the past nine years, Amy has worked as a journalist (until 1991 she wrote regular columns for several newspapers and co-hosted a weekly television show on community cable), a civilian instructor teaching wilderness survival, an urban planner, and a trade unionist (Amy is the former President of CUPE 3903 at York University). She also reads a lot of Canadian literature, builds with stone, and commutes by bike.
The official course description is as follows:
"The course is an introduction to research design and methodology in geography. The course integrates on-campus preparation and report writing with off-campus fieldwork during which data collection and preliminary analysis are carried out. The fieldwork relates to a geographic problem offering scope for the special interests of students in various aspects of geography. "
The unofficial course description will follow.
This weblog has been created for students enrolled in Section B of GEOG 3420 3.0 in the 2006-07 fall term. Lectures will be held on Fridays in the Ross Building, North Ross Room 143, from 12:30 until 4:30 om.
Your Course Director: Amy Lavender Harris (e-mail: alharris@yorku.ca); office location South Ross 401, office hours Fridays 11:30 to 12:30 am. Amy is a part-time faculty member in the Department of Geography. She holds an undergraduate degree in Geography and Literature from Queen's University, a master's degree in urban planning, also from Queen's, and another master's degree in industrial relations, from the University of mToronto. Her research interests include Toronto literature and literary geography, Canadian literature, city spaces and their meanings, architectural salvage, ecological phenomenology, the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, narratives of nature, finitude, and regeneration. In addition to researching and teaching at York for the past nine years, Amy has worked as a journalist (until 1991 she wrote regular columns for several newspapers and co-hosted a weekly television show on community cable), a civilian instructor teaching wilderness survival, an urban planner, and a trade unionist (Amy is the former President of CUPE 3903 at York University). She also reads a lot of Canadian literature, builds with stone, and commutes by bike.
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