Teaching: Geography, Businesses, and Cities

I teach, have taught, and will teach the following courses related to geography, businesses, and cities in our UNT Geography undergraduate and graduate programs:

Established Courses, 2017-18 Teaching Schedule

• Fall 2017: GEOG 3100: United States and Canada - Cities, Economies, and Sustainability
• Fall 2017: GEOG 4220/5220: Applied Retail Geography
• Spring 2018: GEOG 5190: Advanced Quantitative Methods

New Course, Spring 2018: GEOG 4230/5230 (Location Intelligence: Business GIS Concepts and Applications)

• GEOG 4230/5230 fills a key gap in UNT Geography's course offerings: addressing the combination of advanced business location concepts and GIS methods and applications
  • The classroom and GIS lab materials for this course are still under development, but you can find a preliminary draft of the GEOG 4230 syllabus here 
• How is GEOG 4230/5230 unique? This new course extends on the business geography focus in GEOG 4220/5220 (Applied Retail Geography) in two key ways:
  • (1) GEOG 4230/5230 has a more technical and methodological orientation compared with GEOG 4220/5220 (key activities include a series of business GIS lab exercises, plus an applied semester project)
  • (2) GEOG 4230/5230 offers a broader coverage of a wider range of business types, including retail but also going beyond to encompass marketing, transportation, and health

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 Geography study opportunities with me at UNT. I welcome inquiries from students who are up for a knowledge- and skill-building challenge.

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Past Teaching: Archived Course Material

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

I may teach one or more of the above courses again at some point in the future, but they are not on my upcoming teaching schedule. There are undoubtedly some broken links and missing resources in these course pages (I am not actively maintaining these pages like I do with my currently-offered courses). However, these archived pages should give a good idea of the overall structure and emphasis I have created for each of these past courses. Note, each of these courses are being offered in the current academic year by other UNT Geography faculty.

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Related Teaching Resources

There are a few primary software resources that I use in my classroom teaching. All of the below are excellent GIS 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 (Esri's venerable business GIS software  front end, tailoring the ArcGIS package specifically for business uses)
• Esri's Business Analyst Web App (BA Web) (user-friendly cloud GIS package focusing on basic business location and market analytics)

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

Questions? Contact me here

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