GEOGRAPHY:
SPATIAL ANALYSIS, 
ADVANCED TOPICS
NRE501, SECTION 043 (3 credits)
SCHOOL OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
http://www.umich.edu


Class Resource Pages
http://www.snre.umich.edu/~sarhaus  and follow links

 
 
Robin Currie Robin Saha 
Seema Desai Iyer Rosalyn Scaff
Audra Laug David Stutz
Charles Rennie

Professor Sandra Arlinghaus (Ph.D.)
Winter, 1998
Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.
Office in Dana:  2044
Research office:  1130 Hill Street (Community Systems Foundation, CSF)
Phone: 761-1357 (research office); 975-0246 (home, call between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.--phone with machine)
e-mail: sarhaus@umich.edu (preferred method of communication)
Office Hours:
    Monday (CSF), 10a.m.-1p.m.; Thursday (CSF), 10a.m. - 1p.m.
    Wednesdays available much of the day in Dana.

    Others by appointment.

 
 
This course offers students an opportunity to pursue advanced spatial topics related to their own interests. Students must bring their own project to this course (a chapter of a thesis, an ongoing project, or such). In consultation with the instructor, students will be guided to appropriate tools, both theoretical and practical, that enable them to probe various spatial aspects of their project. As technology advances, so too must an understanding of the broad conceptual issues surrounding the technology. 

Class is informal lecture and discussion. 
Course Requirements 
  • Initial description of interests: 5% for a one-page statement handed in on time, the first day. 
  • Midterm oral presentation of about 15 minutes illustrating progress to date; written statement (on diskette) of such to be handed in.Students will be encouraged to capture their work in some sort of electronic format for this presentation (such as PowerPoint---say, 20 slides). This presentation is worth 15% of the grade. 
  • Midterm written project abstract, worth 10% of the grade. 
  • Presentation of the final project (15 minutes for each, as above). Presentation worth 35% of the grade. 
  • Website displaying final project. (Students who do not already know how to do this can get trained in this course, if they wish). Worth 35% of the grade.