Rebecca Sheehan

Professor

Geography

TEACHING

  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Topics in Geography
    12 Jan 2026 - 1 May 2026
    Specialized physical, social and methodological topics in geography.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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    Doctoral Dissertation Research
    18 Aug 2025 - 5 Dec 2025
    Offered for variable credit, 1-12 credit hours, maximum of 30 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy and consent of major professor.
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    Readings in Geography
    18 Aug 2025 - 5 Dec 2025
    Directed readings on selected topics, regions or methods in geography.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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    Exploring North America and Diversity (DS)
    11 Mar 2024 - 3 May 2024
    This course presents a regional analysis of the United States and Canada, including physical and cultural landscapes, population and migration trends, regional development, natural resources, and U.S.-Canada relations as well as global relations. In addition, it emphasizes diversity in both countries, with special attention to those geographies of under-represented and minority groups in the U.S. May not be used for degree credit with GLST 3713.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Exploring North America and Diversity (DS)
    11 Mar 2024 - 3 May 2024
    This course presents a regional analysis of the United States and Canada, including physical and cultural landscapes, population and migration trends, regional development, natural resources, and U.S.-Canada relations as well as global relations. In addition, it emphasizes diversity in both countries, with special attention to those geographies of under-represented and minority groups in the U.S. Same course as GEOG 3713.
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    Introduction to Cultural Geography (IS)
    16 Jan 2024 - 3 May 2024
    Surveys the principles of human geography by exploring the world's diverse patterns of culture and associated cultural landscapes. Examination of global patterns of population; language; religion; ethnic, national, and sexual identities; the development of regions, cities, and industry; food production and environmental change, especially as they are affected by globalization.
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    Doctoral Dissertation Research
    21 Aug 2023 - 8 Dec 2023
    Offered for variable credit, 1-12 credit hours, maximum of 30 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy and consent of major professor.
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    Thesis
    10 Jul 2023 - 4 Aug 2023
    Open only to students working on the master's degree in geography.Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of adviser or major professor.
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    Research Problems in Geography
    27 Mar 2023 - 5 May 2023
    Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Doctoral Dissertation Research
    17 Jan 2023 - 5 May 2023
    Offered for variable credit, 1-12 credit hours, maximum of 30 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy and consent of major professor.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Introduction to Cultural Geography (IS)
    17 Jan 2023 - 5 May 2023
    Surveys the principles of human geography by exploring the world's diverse patterns of culture and associated cultural landscapes. Examination of global patterns of population; language; religion; ethnic, national, and sexual identities; the development of regions, cities, and industry; food production and environmental change, especially as they are affected by globalization.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Readings in Geography
    17 Jan 2023 - 5 May 2023
    Directed readings on selected topics, regions or methods in geography.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Thesis
    17 Jan 2023 - 5 May 2023
    Open only to students working on the master's degree in geography.Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of adviser or major professor.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Doctoral Dissertation Research
    22 Aug 2022 - 9 Dec 2022
    Offered for variable credit, 1-12 credit hours, maximum of 30 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy and consent of major professor.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Exploring North America and Diversity (DS)
    22 Aug 2022 - 9 Dec 2022
    This course presents a regional analysis of the United States and Canada, including physical and cultural landscapes, population and migration trends, regional development, natural resources, and U.S.-Canada relations as well as global relations. In addition, it emphasizes diversity in both countries, with special attention to those geographies of under-represented and minority groups in the U.S. May not be used for degree credit with GLST 3713.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Exploring North America and Diversity (DS)
    22 Aug 2022 - 9 Dec 2022
    This course presents a regional analysis of the United States and Canada, including physical and cultural landscapes, population and migration trends, regional development, natural resources, and U.S.-Canada relations as well as global relations. In addition, it emphasizes diversity in both countries, with special attention to those geographies of under-represented and minority groups in the U.S. Same course as GEOG 3713.
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    Geographic Renderings in Qualitative Methods
    22 Aug 2022 - 9 Dec 2022
    Seminar engages with geographic facets in qualitative research and provides students with experience in collecting and working with qualitative data. Students explore avenues of qualitative inquiry in cross-cultural, community participation, and storytelling/testimonial/oral history/life history, and ethnographic research with special consideration to space, place, scale, context, body, and senses. Course addresses issues involved with analysis, interpretation, and 'writing-up' research.Prerequisite(s): SCFD 5913 or SCFD 6123 or SOC 5273 or consent of instructor.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Thesis
    22 Aug 2022 - 9 Dec 2022
    Open only to students working on the master's degree in geography.Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of adviser or major professor.
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    Black Geographies & Memorialization in the Landscape
    10 Jan 2022 - 29 Apr 2022
    How and why have African American people sought to memorialize their history in public places? How have Black counterpublics shaped discourse on memorials to African American history? What has this discourse done to the field of landscape and memory studies? To explore these questions, this course is organized around memory in the landscape as it relates to black geographies, including, for example, slavery, the Civil War, civil rights, and the Tulsa Race Massacre in the United States. Approaches may be comparative or transnational. May not be used for degree credit with AFAM 4453, AMST 4453, or GEOG 4453.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Doctoral Dissertation Research
    10 Jan 2022 - 29 Apr 2022
    Offered for variable credit, 1-12 credit hours, maximum of 30 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy and consent of major professor.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Readings in Geography
    11 Oct 2021 - 3 Dec 2021
    Directed readings on selected topics, regions or methods in geography.Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Doctoral Dissertation Research
    16 Aug 2021 - 3 Dec 2021
    Offered for variable credit, 1-12 credit hours, maximum of 30 credit hours.Prerequisite(s): Admission to candidacy and consent of major professor.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Exploring North America and Diversity (DS)
    16 Aug 2021 - 3 Dec 2021
    This course presents a regional analysis of the United States and Canada, including physical and cultural landscapes, population and migration trends, regional development, natural resources, and U.S.-Canada relations as well as global relations. In addition, it emphasizes diversity in both countries, with special attention to those geographies of under-represented and minority groups in the U.S. May not be used for degree credit with GLST 3713.
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Exploring North America and Diversity (DS)
    16 Aug 2021 - 3 Dec 2021
    This course presents a regional analysis of the United States and Canada, including physical and cultural landscapes, population and migration trends, regional development, natural resources, and U.S.-Canada relations as well as global relations. In addition, it emphasizes diversity in both countries, with special attention to those geographies of under-represented and minority groups in the U.S. Same course as GEOG 3713.
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    Seminar in Historical Geography
    16 Aug 2021 - 3 Dec 2021
    This seminar explores historical geographic research concerning places and environments, the dynamics of place, space, and landscape as well as how the past shapes the geographies of the present and the future. It considers methodological practices and theoretical understandings associated with historical geographic scholarship.Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.