Geography
Prerequisites
Students pursuing the Master of Arts in Latin American Studies (MALAS) with a specialization in Geography must have completed Introduction to Quantitative Analysis for Geography (GEO 3162) and either Maps and Graphs (GEO 4100C) or Foundations of Geographic Information Systems (GEO 3171). Equivalent courses may qualify if approved by the specialization coordinator.
Requirements
MALAS students must complete 33 credit hours of approved courses, write a thesis on a topic related to the specialization, and demonstrate intermediate-high proficiency in Spanish, Portuguese or Haitian Creole.
The course requirements are distributed as follows:
• 6 hours of gateway seminars (preferably in the
first semester):
* Issues and Perspectives in Latin American Studies
* Research Design and Methods in Latin American Studies
• 15 hours of courses in the specialization (see below)
• 9 hours of courses with Latin American content outside the specialization, selected in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Richmond Brown
• 3 hours of LAS 6971, Master's Research
Required Courses (One in A and one in B)
(A)
GEA 4465 Amazonia
GEA 6419 South America
(B)
GEA 6468L Resource Utilization & Consrvation in Latin America
GEA 6109 Tropical Lands & Their Utilization
Optional Courses
GEO 5145C Remote Sensing
GEO 5346 Natural Hazards
GEO 5556 Geography of Innovation & Technological Change
GEO 5567 Agricultural Development & Administration
GEO 5605 Advanced Urban Geography
GEO 5809 Geography of World Agriculture
GEO 5930/ 6938 Selected Topics
GEO 6118 Contemporary Geographic Thought & Research
GEO 6356 Land & Water Utilization
GEO 6509 Economic Geography
Faculty
Michael Binford (GIS techniques, environmental geography; Bolivia, Thailand)
Eric Keys (Tropical agriculture, tropical forests, cultural and political
ecology, land use and land cover change, global environmental change; Mesoamerica)
Corene Matyas (Climatology, hurricanes, climate and change; Caribbean)
Nigel Smith (Third World development; Brazil)
Jane Southworth (Climate change, remote sensing, land use, land cover change;
Honduras, Guatemala)
Peter Waylen (Hydroclimatology; Central America)
Contact Information
319 Grinter Hall
P.O. Box 115530
Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
USA Tel: (352) 392-0375
Fax: (352) 392-7682
Graduate Advisor
Richmond F. Brown
rfbrown@latam.ufl.edu
Specialization Coordinator
Eric Keys
ekeys@ufl.edu