Thrall's Geography 4620: Land Use & Urban Form

Fall 2008
(updated August 23, 2008)


GEOGRAPHY 6938 Business Geography Integrating Theory Graduate level enrollment
Section 3673X Periods: T 5-6 (11:45-12:35, 12:50-1:40), R 6 (12:50-1:40)	This course provides the general integrating theory to business geography. It is one of the four courses in the core Business Geography stream. This course is a prerequisite for advanced courses in the business geography stream, Geo 5605 and 6509 in the Department of Geography at University of Florida. Geo 5605 and Geo 6509 are open to undergraduates after completion of Geo 4620 and Geo 3602, or prior permission of instructor.
Department of Geography, University of Florida Fall Term 2004	Classroom: 3018 Turlington Professor Grant Ian Thrall 3121 Turlington Hall 1-352-392-4652 thrall@geog.ufl.edu

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Prerequisite: Geo 3602 (Urban and Business Geography). Students that have not completed Geo 3602 may also enroll in the course if they have completed a 3000 level course or above in Economics, Real Estate, Marketing, or Urban Planning. A university course in quantitative methods that covers up through regression analysis is also required.

"Business geography integrates geographic analysis, reasoning, and technology for the improvement of the business judgmental decision. Without the demonstrated ability to improve the business decision, there is no business geography. This differentiates business geography from the traditional descriptive or explanatory objective of economic and urban geography (Thrall, 2002, i)."

Business geography is important to marketing, decision and information sciences, real estate, economics, and other business subjects. Business geography is also relevant to urban planning, particularly those who desire career paths to become economic development officers.

This class integrates ideas, methods, technologies, and objectives in an opportunistic manner to achieve the goal of providing information to improve the business decision. This class provides an overview and general theory of geographic markets and submarkets.

Registration for this course as 6938 allows graduate students under certain circumstances to receive graduate credit for Geography 4620. Other than the term paper requirement, the two courses are the same. Please see the course outline for Geography 4620 for further details.

REQUIRED TERM PAPER

OVERVIEW: Students enrolled in Geog 6938 are required to complete a term paper. The topic of the term paper must be approved by Dr. Thrall no later than ten days after the midterm. The term paper will relate to the general theory and other material covered in this course. The term paper is worth 20% of the total grade. The midterm and final exams will each be reduced by 10%
GENERAL GUIDELINES: The required term paper is to be a minimum of nine pages, and no more than twelve pages, double spaces, 12 pt. font, one inch margines, excluding the cover/title page and any figures or maps. The term paper must be typed and follow all the standard university rules on writing style, spelling, and layout. Term papers must be submitted as Microsoft Word file. If the topic is applied to a specific location, the location must be within Alachua County.