GEO 435 Research Methods Fall 2011

Lectures:

Research Intro

Literature review

Study area

Ethics, part I

Ethics, part II

Safety issues

Sampling

Field observations

Repeat photography part I

Urban sampling

Vegetation sampling

Human-based research

Secondary data

Analyzing data

Analyzing data, part deux

Presenting data

Archival research

Presenting a project

Exercises:

Exercise 1, due Sept 2nd

Exercise 2, due Sept 16th

Repeat photography exercise, due Oct 31

Reading assignments:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 24 (ethics)

Chapters 3 and 4

Websites

Chicago Manual of Style - Online help for citing other people's works, use author-date system

Plagarism Tutorial

Plagarism for Students

Contact me: Dr. Carol Sawyer (email)

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