Teaching: Geography, Businesses, and Cities

My teaching schedule for 2019/2020 features the following UNT Geography courses:

Summer 2019 Course

• I am not teaching in summer 2019​​

Fall 2019 Courses

• Mo/We: GEOG 3100: United States and Canada - Cities, Economies, and Sustainability
• Mo/We:  GEOG 4220/5220: Applied Retail Geography

Spring 2020 Courses​

• Tu/Th: GEOG 3100: United States and Canada - Cities, Economies, and Sustainability
• Tu/Th: GEOG 4230/5230: Location Intelligence - Business GIS Concepts and Applications​

I am always interested in talking with prospective students. Please feel free to get in touch with me about courses, research topics, and career opportunities in geography (rice@unt.edu). My particular teaching focus is represented by a track in our MS program called business geography, but my teaching interests also extend to urban environments, geographic information systems, analytical methods, and human geography more broadly.

If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in any of the above topics, I invite you to learn more about Master of Science in Applied Geography study opportunities with me at UNT. I welcome inquiries from students who are up for a knowledge- and skill-building challenge.

​Here are a few employers who have hired some of our great UNT Geography graduates:

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Past Teaching: Archived Course Material

• GEOG 1200: Global Societies (World Regional Geography)
• GEOG 4210/5210: Urban Geography
• GEOG 5190: Advanced Quantitative Techniques
• GEOG 5800: Research Design and Geographic Applications

I may teach one or more of the above courses again in the future, but they are not on my current teaching schedule. Please note that there are undoubtedly some broken links and missing resources in these course pages, as I am not actively maintaining these pages like I do with my currently-offered courses. However, these archived pages give a good idea of the overall structure and emphasis I have created for each of these past courses. Lastly, please note that most of these courses may be offered in the coming year by my UNT Geography faculty colleagues.

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Related Teaching Resources

There are a few primary software resources that I currently use in my classroom teaching. All of the below are excellent GIS/geospatial data analytics packages that combine a solid core of analytical capabilities with good datasets. I recommend all of these packages highly, although they each have distinctive strengths:

• Caliper's Maptitude (general-purpose GIS package with good census datasets and analytical capabilities)
• Esri's Business Analyst Web App (BA Web) (user-friendly cloud GIS package focusing on basic business location and market analytics)
• Alteryx (powerful data management software with extensive geospatial analytical capabilities)

Lastly, please check out my YouTube channel for videos related to each of my classes.

Questions? Contact me here

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