OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES MA CONCENTRATION IN CULTURAL & HUMAN GEOGRAPHY The Institute for the Humanities at ODU offers a Master of Arts degree in the Humanities. The interdisciplinary curriculum allows students to pursue individualized and customized programs of study that incorporate classes from across the University. Students in this concentration study the relationships SAMPLE COURSES between natural and built environments and the • Cultural Geography humans that occupy them, focusing on how through • Dark Ecology: Environmental Literature their usage and traversal of these spaces, people • Geographies, Gender & Sexuality convert them into places filled with meaning, struggle, • GIS & Social Justice and negotiation over cultural identities, practices and values. Students will study the intersections between • Medical Geography global and local economic, political, regulatory, and • Political Geography cultural flows and place-based identities. Students can • Urban Resiliency also explore the sociocultural and political-economic implications of climate change on communities. FEATURED FACULTY • MICHAEL ALLEN: geography & health, climate Projects like Mapping Lambert’s Point allow students to variability, climate change learn digital story mapping tools and integrate them into their research (mappinglambertspoint.org). • TOM CHAPMAN: cultural geography, geographic information systems, history of geographic thought, Students in this concentration will primarily take political geography, geographies of gender, sexuality, courses in the Departments of Geography, History, and social justice Public Administration, and Environmental Science. • MICHELLE COVI: climate change and sea level rise adaptation issues and risk perception, communication This concentration will prepare students to be able to and public participation in regional decision-making teach college-level geography courses, to pursue a PhD in Geography or related fields, and to do work • NICOLE HUTTON: population geography, urban related to environmental rights, community organizing, resiliency, gender, NGOs digital mapping, and urban affairs. • JONATHAN LEIB: political geography, cultural geography, ‘race,’ public memory & sense of place 757-683-3821 | [email protected] | www.odu.edu/humanities .