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.
Information
Program Address
Department of Human Ecology
133 Hunt Hall
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Phone:
(530) 752-4119
Fax:
(530) 752-3677
Program Type
Interdisciplinary Graduate Group
Lead Dean:
College of Agriculture and Environmental Studies
Major Code:
GGEO
Administrative ByLaws
Application Deadlines
General:
Dec 15, 2019
Prospective Student Fellowship:
Dec 15, 2019
Continuing Student Fellowship:
Jan 15, 2020
Degrees Offered
M.A. Plan I
M.A. Plan II
Ph.D. Plan B