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Course list
Fall
Aug 25 2014 to Dec 19 2014
An introduction to fire on natural and anthropogenic landscapes that explores physical, ecological, political, and management-related perspectives.
Oct 18 2013
GEOG 391: Preceptorship. Spring 2010, Precession 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013. Involved undergraduate preceptors in laboratory preparation and setup, exam question drafting, evaluation of research projects and student presentations, and in delivering a college course lecture.
Summer
Oct 18 2013
GEOG 397B: Field Study in Geography (Workshop). Summers 2011, 2012. Course provides field trip experiences to supplement existing courses. Used in conjunction with GEOG 455: Tucson and the Santa Cruz to engage students in 6 off-campus field trips.
Spring
Oct 18 2013
GEOG 303: Field Study in Environmental Geography. Summer 2010. Course teaches skills and research methods common in environmental field research. Course was taught in accelerated summer format. Course was organized around the ecological dynamics of invasive buffelgrass in the Sonoran Desert.
Fall
Oct 18 2013
GEOG 397A: Field Study in Geography (Workshop). Fall 2011. Companion class to "Our Dynamic Landscape" that offers experiential field experience in reading a landscape, especially fire effects and the post-fire recovery of areas burned in the Horseshoe 2 Fire of 2011. Readings and seminar-style class meetings culminate in an overnight field trip to the Chiricahua Mountains of SE Arizona.
Fall
Oct 18 2013
GEOG 240: Our Dynamic Landscape. Fall 2011. Course explores the multiple drivers of landscape formation and change: geomorphology, biogeographic topics, ecological disturbance, and human-derived landscapes. Tier-2 Science general education class.
Spring
Oct 18 2013
GEOG 230: Our Changing Climate. Spring 2012, Winter 2012-2013 (online); Spring 2013. Course covers weather and climate factors over space and time. Tier-2 Science general education class.
Fall
Oct 18 2013
GEOG/ECOL/GEOS 438/538: Biogeography. Fall 2012. Biogeography covers the spatial and temporal patterns of biota and the abiotic and biotic factors that limit species distributions: spatial ecology.
Summer
Oct 18 2013
GEOG 455: Advanced Regional Study- Environmental History of the Santa Cruz River. Summers 2011, 2012. Course explores the environmental history and political ecology of the Santa Cruz River and its relationship with a growing Tucson. This class is primarily field-based and experiential.
Summer
May 13 2013 to Jun 1 2013
HIST 495F: Current Topics in US History: Environmental History of Landscapes and Watersheds from the San Juan Mountains to the Grand Canyon. Summer 2013. Coinstructor of an experiential field course in environmental history and political ecology entirely designed by the instructors.
UA News writeup: http://uanews.org/blog/qa-value-experiential-fieldbased-courses