About the Department
The department’s courses, as well as the faculty’s interests and research activities, include aspects of physical and human geography and geographic information technology. Major focuses are on natural environment and its resources and urban and economic development. There is a strong emphasis on the learning and applications of modern techniques of quantitative methods and geographic information technology.
Among the Faculty
The faculty members of the Department of Geography are listed below along with their primary specialties:
Dr. Shawn Banasick, assistant professor: urban, economic, Japan and East Asia.
Dr. Surinder Bhardwaj, Emeritus Professor: cultural, medical, pilgrimage, India.
Dr. Ute Dymon, professor: cartography, geographic information systems, risk, emergency and evacuation mapping, geography of women.
Dr. Frank Erickson, Emeritus Professor, geography of wine, environmental.
Dr. Mary Ann Haley, assistant professor: economic development, industrialization, North America, Europe, the post-Soviet region.
Dr. Milton E. Harvey, professor: regional analysis, behavioral, methodology.
Dr. David Kaplan, professor: urban, economic, political, ethnicity, population.
Dr. Jay Lee, chairperson and professor: geographic information systems and analysis, spatial analysis, Southeast Asia.
Dr. Emmanuel Mbobi, assistant professor (Stark Campus): wetlands, environmental hazards.
Dr. Keith Muller, associate professor (Trumbull Campus): agriculture, population, rural settlement, Brazil, Latin America.
Dr. Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, associate professor
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Program Requirements
All students pursuing bachelor’s degrees at Kent State complete a series of liberal education requirements. Geography majors take courses in English composition, mathematics or logic, foreign language, humanities, fine arts, social sciences and basic sciences.
The following geography courses are required of each student in the major:
· World Geography
· Physical Geography
· Geography of the United States and Canada
· Statistical Methods in Geography
· Senior Seminar in Geography
· Cartography
· Cartography Laboratory
· One non-LERs Regional Course
Additionally, students are required to take at least 21 hours selected from one of the following concentrations: social geography, environmental geography or geographical information sciences. These concentrations are detailed on the major requirement sheet.
Geography courses cover most regions of the world and such topics as urban geography, historical geography, meteorology, climatology, soils, conservation of natural resources, resource geography, marketing, computer cartography, air photo study, remote sensing, political geography, population and environment and geographic information systems.
Special Departmental Programs
Internship in Planning
The Department of Geography provides qualified students an Internship in Planning program for academic credit.
Interdisciplinary Minor Programs
Geography students have the opportunity to earn a minor in urban studies and planning by taking appropriate courses in geography, economics, political science and sociology. The minor in cartography is also interdisciplinary and qualifies students for professional cartographic employment. The minor in climatology provides an overview of the atmospheric sciences along with detailed study of world climates and current issues in climatology. The Asian studies minor provides focused study in the cultures, histories and governments of Asia.
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