17.1.1 GRADUATE FACULTY
Stebelsky, Ihor; B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Washington)—1968.
Trenhaile, Alan S.; B.Sc., Ph.D. (Wales)—1969.
Romsa, Gerald H.; B.Sc. (Manitoba), M.A. (Waterloo), Ph.D. (Florida), M.C.I.P.—1970.
Innes, Frank C.; B.Sc. (Glasgow), M.A., Ph.D. (McGill)—1972.
Lakhan, V. Chris; B.A. (Guyana), M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Toronto), F.R.G.S. (U.K.), C.E.I., C.E.S. —1984.
Phipps, Alan G.; B.A. (Manchester), M.A. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Iowa), M.C.I.P.—1988.
La Valle, Placido D.; B.A. (Columbia), M.A. (Southern Illinois), Ph.D. (State U. of Iowa)—1969.
Matthew, Malcolm R.; B.A., M.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Waterloo), M.C.I.P.—1988.
Wang, Jinfei; B.Sc., M.Sc. (Peking), Ph.D. (Waterloo)—1990.
Duncan, Kirsty E.; B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Edinburgh)—1993.
Vakil, Anna C.; B.A. (Carleton), M.U.P. (McGill). Ph.D. (Michigan)—1993.
The offerings of the Department emphasize two areas: physical geography and environmental resource management, and urban-economic geography. The Department offers some courses in planning and students may take a maximum of two planning courses at Wayne State University if they are not available at Windsor.
The general admission, residence, and period of study requirements may be found in the regulations of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (see 1.3 and 1.6.). The Department's Handbook of Procedures for Graduate Students in Geography provides additional information on requirements for specific areas of focus.
All graduate students will be assigned to an advisory committee and may be examined to determine research capabilities and deficiencies in background courses. Remedial courses or supplemental readings may be required.
After being counselled in the Department, candidates may proceed toward the degree in one of the following programs:
(a) a minimum of six courses, one of which may be replaced by a senior undergraduate course with the permission of the Department, and a thesis on an approved research problem, plus an oral examination on the thesis;
(b) a minimum of eight courses, one of which may be replaced by a senior undergraduate course with the permission of the Department, and a major paper on an approved topic. The completion of the major paper will be followed by a comprehensive written examination covering two subject areas of the candidate's choice.
The option to complete program (a) or (b) will be kept open in consultation with the Department.
All candidates will take 42-230 and 42-231 as non-credit courses, if they have not taken them or equivalent course(s) at the undergraduate level.
All candidates will take 42-500 and 42-504 as required courses.
Designed to inform the student of rational inquiry through modern social science literature and thought. (Prerequisites: 42-230 and 42-231, or equivalent.)
The translation of statistical methods used by geographers and planners into operational computer programs; spreadsheet, statistical-package and C++ programs are applied to the student's data set.
A discussion of medical geography based on the concept of ill-health as maladjustment to the environment; world-wide examples of inappropriate development and human disease, with an emphasis on prevention techniques and appropriate amelioration.
Readings and discussion of economic, demographic, and cultural basis for development and regional inequalities in a developed or developing region.
A research seminar on current problems in climatology, selected in consultation with the instructor.
Readings and seminars on different interpretations of urban dynamics. Selected topics are assigned for analysis. (Cross-listed with 50-517.)
Supervised readings and seminars relating to the development of modern geomorphological theory and its application.
This course concentrates on the various aspects of geomorphology that relate to human use of the natural environment. Discussions and selected readings will demonstrate that geomorphology can contribute toward the analysis of several environmental problems.
A seminar of research and readings on environmental systems, their analysis, and application to the management of natural and human resources.
Selected research projects involving the management of resource systems and the planning of resource control schemes, applying concepts evolved in 42-521. Particular emphasis is placed on the discussion of agricultural resource systems.
A seminar on selected problems in cultural geography such as culture-ecology relationships, cultural landscape analysis, multiculturalism and ethnic communities and their spatial dynamics and impact.
Supervised readings and seminars on selected aspects of population distribution and redistribution; migration mechanism, theories and applications; international and internal migrations in Canada or a selected region; population theories and their geographic implications.
Selected research projects in applying geographic information systems (GIS) and computer analysis of remotely sensed data to resource management, urban planning, and other geographic and environmental problems. A GIS system (SPANS) and a computer image analysis system (EASI/PACE) are used. (Prerequisites: 42-402 and 42-405.)
Readings and seminars on the forces and sectoral needs influencing the locational decisions of firms and the resulting patterns of activities, with emphasis on the service, information, and control sectors.
Theoretical developments in economic geography; application to transport systems planning and to developing countries.
Topics to be selected in consultation with the instructor.
An introduction to the legal principles and rules governing the planning process in Ontario; the course will examine the Planning Act and other related statutes and their interpretation by the courts and will focus on substantive and procedural aspects of the law governing the operation of planning boards, committees of adjustment, land division committees, and municipal councils in the exercise of their planning powers and the function of the respective ministers and the Ontario Municipal Board in the planning process. (Cross-listed with 99-213.)
A study of social policy issues related to housing. Emphasis is on housing market management, program design, land use regulations and urban growth assessment.
(Available at Wayne State University.)
Issues raised in the literature of planning will be discussed in lectures and seminars. Metropolitan expansion and various planning responses to it, living environments, community arrangements, economic development, transportation and similar topics may be included.
This course is concerned with issues associated with planning in the developing areas of Canada and the Third World. Taking a case study approach, the course addresses key theoretical, methodological, and implementation problems related to planning in inner city, native, and other disadvantaged communities in Canada, as well as in urban squatter settlements and poor rural communities in the Third World.
Current topics in strategic planning: meeting the needs of an aging society; provision of leisure activities; addressing problems at the urban fringe.
(Available at Wayne State University.)
(Available at Wayne State University.)
(Available at Wayne State University.)
(Available at Wayne State University.)