I teach classes in:
The Department of Geography and the Environment
Environmental Studies Program
International Studies Program
GPS instruction in the Peruvian Amazon
Teaching Approach
My classes involve a great deal of student participation and often contain a real world application or project. A good example of this is GEOG 345: Society, Economy and Nature: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development. More information can be found by listening to this 3 minute MP3 podcast from a WCVE 88.9 FM (local NPR) December 4, 2009 interview with John Ogle or by reading this newspaper article, UR students’ research helps protect wildlife and plants in Afghanistan. See links below and student research for more examples of applied projects completed in class.
Courses Taught
Year 2021-2022 on sabbatical and working on NASA SERVIR project
Courses taught Academic Year 2020-2021
- GEOG 333 Geographies of Amazonia
- GEOG 345 Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, and Nature
- GEOG 210/GS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
- GS 290 Introduction to Global Perspectives
Courses taught Academic Year 2019-2020
- GEOG 345 Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, and Nature
- GEOG 210/GS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
- GS 290 Introduction to Global Perspectives
Courses taught Academic Year 2018-2019
- GEOG 345 Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, and Nature
- GEOG 210/GS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
- GEOG 401/ENVR 391 Geography Capstone/Environmental Senior Seminar: Human Dimensions of Climate Change
Courses taught Academic Year 2017-2018
- GEOG 333 Geographies of Amazonia
- GEOG 345 Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, and Nature
- GEOG 210/GS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
- GS 290 Introduction to Global Perspectives
Courses taught Academic Year 2016-2017
- GEOG 401/ENVR 391 Geography Capstone/Environmental Senior Seminar: Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- GEOG 345 Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, and Nature
- GEOG 210/GS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
- GS 290 Introduction to Global Perspectives
Year 2015-2016 on sabbatical
Courses taught Academic Year 2014-2015
Fall 2014
- IS 400 Senior Seminar: Boundaries, Borderlands and Frontiers
- GEOG 210/IS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
Spring2014
- GEOG 345 Society, Economy, and Nature: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development
Courses taught Academic Year 2013-2014
Fall 2013
- GEOG 210/IS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
Spring2014
- GEOG 333 Geographies of Amazonia
- GEOG 401/ENVR 391 Environmental Senior Seminar: Human Dimensions of Climate Change
Courses taught Academic Year 2012-2013
- GEOG 345 Society, Economy, and Nature: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development
- IS 290 International Perspectives (also good for Geography credit)
- GEOG 333 Geographies of Amazonia
Courses taught Academic Year 2011-2012
- GEOG 221: Mapping Sustainability: Cartography and Geographic Information in an Environmental Context
- GEOG 345/ENVR 345 Society, Economy, and Nature: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development
- GEOG 210/IS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
- ENVR 391/GEOG 401 Environmental Studies Senior Seminar/Geography Capstone: Socio-Environmental Impacts of Road and Rail
Courses taught Academic Year 2010-2011
- Fall Fulbright lecture/research in Peruvian Amazon at Universidad Nacional de Ucayali
- Ordenamiento Territorial (Land Use Policy)
- Spring Research Leave (not teaching)
Courses taught Academic Year 2009-2010
- GEOG 210/IS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
- GEOG 345/ENVR 345 Society, Economy, and Nature: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development
- ENVR 391/IS 400/GEOG 401 Interdisciplinary Senior Seminar: The Transboundary Environment
- IS 290 International Perspectives (also good for Geography credit)
Courses taught Academic Year 2008-2009
- GEOG 210/IS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
- GEOG 380/IS 290 The Power of Maps: International Perspectives
- GEOG 333 Geographies of Amazonia
- GEOG 345/ENVR 345 Society, Economy, and Nature: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development
- LAC 250 Communication and Culture in the Amazon (Spanish)
Courses taught Academic Year 2007-2008
- GEOG 210/IS 210 Geographic Dimensions of Human Development
- ENVR 301 Environmental Research Methods
- ENVR 391 Environmental Senior Seminar: Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- GEOG 380/IS 350/QUST Amazonia in the Age of Globalization
- LAC 250 Communication and Culture in the Amazon (Spanish)
