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  • Department of Environmental Design
    133 Hunt Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-4119
    Fax: (530) 752-3677
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Geography

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Final: Jan. 2

  • 2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Jan. 2
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.A. Plan I
  • M.A. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan B

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE scores
  • Copy of transcripts
  • Supplemental application

Degree Requirements

Administrative Bylaws

Students gain advanced knowledge of the spatial interactions between humans and the biophysical environment, including landscape change; sustainable resource management; human and physical geography; domestication and geographical dispersal of plants and animals; biogeography and climate change; acculturation of indigenous peoples and immigrants; indigenous agrosystems; women in development; and medical-nutritional geography. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in the acquisition, analysis and synthesis of geographic information.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Geography website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Robert Hijmans Geography (530) 752-6555
Academic Advisers
Ryan Galt
(Adviser: General)
Geography 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 754-8766
Steven E Greco
(Adviser: Admissions and General)
Environmental Design 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 754-5983
Robert Hijmans
(Adviser: Primary Contact)
Geography - (530) 752-6555
James F Quinn
(Adviser: General)
Environmental Science & Policy 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-8027
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Carrie Armstrong-Ruport Human & Community Development & Design (530) 752-4119
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Jean Telford Graduate Studies (530) 752-9292