Our Department was established in 2007
The Department of Geography and the Environment is Villanova’s newest department
and offers B.A. degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies, and a B.S.
degree in Environmental Science. The department also offers a minor in Geography
and an Environmental Studies Concentration. Majors can also participate in an
Honors Program, and undergraduate research is a cornerstone of our program. The
department was established in 2007 to serve as a multidisciplinary academic unit
to link the social and natural/physical sciences, within the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and across the University. The department’s
overarching objective is to integrate the disciplines of geography and
environmental science in seeking to understand the spatial patterns of human
systems and landscapes,
environmental processes, and the effects of people on the environment. The
department’s three major programs offer the possibility for students to
concentrate their studies in four exciting, discrete, multi-disciplinary categories: (1)
human systems analysis; (2) geographical technologies and techniques; (3)
regional analysis; and (4) environmental science and landscape analysis.
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Fall
2007 Course Offerings
New Course Fall
2007: Geography of National Security
New Course Spring
2008: Geo-Technology
Graduation 2007 Awards: The Alexander von Humbolt Medallion
Award -- Ensign Nicholas S. Andrejack
Graduation 2007 Awards: The Delaware Valley Geographical
Association Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in
Geography -- Ms. Diane E. Ditzel
The new Department of Geography and the Environment Graduates
its first group of Seniors on May, 18th
Three members of the Department present papers at the Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA,
15-19 April 2008: Dr. J. Harold Leaman: "Chad: The Other Refugee
Crisis"; Dr. Keith Henderson: "Daily Temperature Patterns During the
Autumn Transition Season"; and Dr. Frank Galgano: "Environmental
Security: A Framework for Conflict Analysis"
New Faculty Publications: Rodrigues, Lisa J., Grottoli, A.G.,
and Pease, T.K., 2008. "Lipid class composition of bleached and
recovering Porities compressa Dana 1846 and Montipora
capitata Dana 1846 corals from Hawaii." Journal of
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 358: 136-143.
New Faculty Publications: Galgano, Francis A., 2008. "Types and
Causes of Beach Erosion Anomaly Areas in the U.S. East Coast Barrier
Island System: Stabilized Tidal Inlets." Middle States Geographer,
40: 158-170.
New Faculty Publications: Hu, Bangbo. 2007. “Cultural Image: Reflection of
Political Power in the Maps of Chinese Administrative Gazetteers of the Song
Dynasty (960-1279 CE).” Cartographica, 42 (4): pp. 239-254.
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