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I've been invited to team teach a course on doing library research in
geography.  We've decided to have much of the course revolve around the
six step model of research proposed by Carol Kuhlthau (task initaition,
topic selection, prefocus exploration, focus formulation, information
collection, search closure). The course is a upper 400-level class
and is usually fairly small.
 
1) -- Has anyone out there in MAPS-L land ever taught a course like this?
 
2) -- Does anyone have a favorite article/piece about doing geographic
research? -- we're talking about the books and journals type of research
not the scientific method with all of the number crunching.  It would be
nice to be able to read about real geographers doing real research
 
3) -- How about ideas for a quarter long project -- or maybe some way to
tie/link the course with other courses being offered at the same time.
There has to be some way of making this kind of information "real."  One
thing we had thought about was having people work on the background
information required for a "grant application."
 
Many thanks!
 
 
Jenny Marie Johnson
Map Collection
University of Washington
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