As a junior or senior, participating student drafts and submits a work proposal to sponsoring agency and supervising instructor. Agency may pay student for work. Course may not count toward major credit in any program offered by the Department of Geography. Each student will be supervised directly by a faculty member who will also be available to the student and the sponsoring agency for consultation.
Actual assignments have a vast array of possibilities.
Each project will vary in content and assignments. Analyze the adequacy of fire protection in a multicounty region. Do a survey of city subdivision ordinances and make specific recommendation for improvements. Learn all aspects of work performed throughout the various divisions of a federal agency. The course emphasizes the application of skills and concepts learned in classrooms to real life problems.