GES4900 Geography Summit

Welcome!

Syllabus

Powerpoints

Grad School 3/13

Labs

n/a

Readings

Semester Schedule

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Week 1

• Topic: COH 329 (Introductions, how you became a geographer, articulate your specific interests in geography)

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Week 2

• Topic: COH 329 (Research guidance for Olive Report topic)

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Week 3

• Topic: COH 329 (Olive Report presentations, Week 1 of 2: Alexander von Humboldt, American Association of Geographers, The Anthropocene, The Arctic, CERCLA, Eratosthenes, National Geographic Society)

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Week 4

• Topic: COH 329 (Olive Report presentations, Week 2 of 2: Jared Diamond, Mexico City, The Silk Road, The Smithsonian Institution, US Census Bureau, US Geological Survey, Waldo Tobler, William Morris Davis, Yi-Fu Tuan)

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Week 5

• Topic: CLYDE'S 6:30 pm: Cafe Scientifique (A class-time Potlatch)

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Week 6

• Topic: UCCS Career Services presentation by Bev Kratzer, MA, MCC. CVs, resumes, careers in geography. Bev is the Director of the UCCS Career Center, a Certified Federal Employment Advisor, and a Staff Pre-Health Advisor.

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Week 7

• Topic: Attend a Potlatch

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Week 8

• Topic: Class meets inside the UCCS Heller Center in main building: Guest speaker Joni Palmer, PhD: Topics: Exploring and Making Connections: Teaching, Research, and Practice

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Week 9

• Topic: COH 329: All about graduate school (options, timelines, requierements, examples of research scope). Presenters / panelists: GES graduate students Ivan Valles, Thad Swan, and Arielle Cassiday.

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Week 10

• Topic: COH 329 Begin work on Online Portfolio, resume/CV due

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Week 11

• Topic: COH 329: Resume/CV returned with tentative grade, exchange resumes / CVs, incorporate Brandon's / classmates' feedback

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Week 12

• Topic: No class - AAG in New Orleans (revised resume / CV due; attend a Potlatch)

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Week 13

• Topic: Class meets at Heller Center inside main building (organize your group's Teaching Snippet talks)

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Week 14

• Topic: COH 329: Practice / streamline your group's Teaching Snippet Talks

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Week 15

• Topic #1: Class meets at Heller Center outside main building (Teaching Snippet presentations, week 1 of 2: Physical Geography)
• Topic #2: Online portfolio (website) due

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Week 16

• Topic: Class meets Downtown Colorado Springs in Pioneers Museum (Teaching Snippet presentations, week 2 of 2: Human Geography)

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READINGS

• TBD