Intro to Research at Manoa
Designated Writing Intensive
“This course will support the development of critical thinking and writing skills, emphasizing the processes and approaches of doing research, creative work, and innovation, and will examine the steps to building a project, including identifying problems/envisioning goals, formulating questions, reviewing literature, and developing appropriate approaches.”
Biogeography
Presentation of Group Fieldwork
Perspectives on Human Geography
Ethics-Focused
“Introduction to the breadth of contemporary human geography, with an exploration of both the range of topics that geographers study, and some of the key concepts and methods used to study geographic topics. Major themes will investigate how cultural, economic, political, and environmental interactions relate to geographic processes through detailed examinations of case studies in the United States and across the globe.”
Comparative Urbanism
Designated Writing Intensive
“Upper level seminar meant to investigate selected urban issues through the lens of comparative urbanism. Readings will introduce possible ways to design an effective comparative study and to the varying goals of such work. Other readings will target particular issues facing urban areas such as economic restructuring, uneven urban redevelopment, the social construction of race and ethnicity, aging in place, and urban poverty. "
Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)
“This course focuses on how to use data to develop solutions for geographic representation and analysis tasks using GIS software. Students will learn to gather or create relevant spatial data, clean/rectify the data into the GIS, perform GIS operations, visualize and communicate results in an informative way, and sufficiently answer research questions.”
Image Analysis
“Introduction to the principles of remote sensing, and the analysis of aerial and satellite data. Remote Sensing as a science primarily involves the extraction of information contained within energy, and is a vital tool expressed in a of myriad applications, from land-cover change analysis to weather forecasting”
Advanced Spatial Analysis
“Skills and knowledge for applying quantitative methods to analyze information with spatial distributions. The techniques that will be introduced in the course are often quite complex mathematically or statistically.”