Upcoming Exams

First Level Exam (2009):

A written and oral examination is administered by the Geography First Examination Committee, comprising members of the doctoral faculty in Geography, following the student’s successful completion of between 18 and 24 course credits including the following requirements:

A. The three first-year core courses (EES 704, 709, 712)
B. A methods course directed to the student’s specific needs
C. At least one graduate-level course in each of two of the following areas: Geographic Education, Geographic Information Science, Geography and Social Theory, Physical Geography, Urban Regional Dynamics

Please notify the EES Program office if you will be a candidate for the First Exam in Geography in January, 2009.

We will send a set of questions to all students who have registered for the Exam by Monday, January 19, 2009. Typed answers will be due by e-mail to the EES Program office by Monday, January 26, 2009. Oral exams will be scheduled for the weeks of February 2 or February 9, 2009.
Reading lists for EES 704, 709 and 712, and for the fields of Geography and Social Theory, Geographic Information Science, and Urban and Regional Dynamics can be downloaded HERE (PDFs in a zip file). Reading lists for Geographic Education and Physical Geography will be posted if any students express an interest in being examined in those fields.