Graduate Studies Diversity Recruitment Day

GRADUATE STUDIES IN GEOGRAPHY

DIVERSITY RECRUITMENT DAY

An introduction to the Berkeley campus for prospective graduate students interested in exploring the experiences of underrepresented students in Geography and related departments*
at the University of California, Berkeley

Saturday, November 6, 2004
9:00 am to 3:30 pm
112 Wurster Hall, Bancroft & College
University of California, Berkeley

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•	Applying to the graduate program
	• Clarifying the application process • Deadline reminders • Writing the Personal Statement (Form C) and the Statement of Purpose (Form F) -- Bring drafts for comments.
•	Funding your education
	The low-down on • Fellowships • Work-study • Loans • Research funding
•	Berkeley Geography—What’s it all about?
	Come meet faculty and continuing students who will talk about the program, discuss student life and career opportunities, and answer your questions about the application process. Fields of inquiry in our department include the culture of cities and the dynamics of the global economy; race, gender, and social movements; glaciers and climate change; the origins of agriculture and the evolution of plant life. Students have great freedom to choose a research topic, develop an intellectual style, and select approaches to gathering evidence and making persuasive arguments. That freedom also includes opportunities to go outside of the department and make use of the tremendous resources of the campus as a whole. Our goal is to help each student find his or her own combination of intellectual rigor, creativity, and independence.
Critical questions being asked in the Geography Department
•	What are the interactions between the physical and human landscapes?
•	What is the significance of “place” in an era of globalization?
•	How can race and gender be situated geographically as well as historically?
•	How can we understand city planning through film and literature?
•	How can pollen help us understand the origins of agriculture?
•	How have environmental feedbacks operated during the past 400,000 years of ice-age climate cycles?
•	What is the tempo and magnitude of climate changes in polar regions?

*Sponsors: Students of Color in Planning, the Graduate Assembly, and the Departments of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Architecture, City and Regional Planning, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Transportation Engineering), Energy and Resources Group, Geography, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, and Environmental Science, Policy and Management.

Please RSVP to Kaye Bock by November 1, 2004
at 510-643-9440 or kbock@berkeley.edu

Diversity Recruitment Day Agenda
Saturday November 6, 2004
9:00am to 3:30pm

College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
112 Wurster Hall, Bancroft & College

Welcome to the 2004 Diversity Recruitment Day

We are pleased that you are attending this event and we hope to provide you with information about all that the sponsoring graduate programs, as well as what the UC Berkeley academic community has to offer.

9:00-9:30AM
Registration/Check-in

9:30-9:40AM
Welcome

9:40-10:30AM
Graduate Program Introductions
Each department will give some introductory information to introduce students to all the graduate programs sponsoring this event.

10:30-11:30PM
Graduate Programs--Small Group Meeting
Each graduate program will meet with students, alumni, faculty and staff in the following rooms to discuss the degree programs, academic and professional opportunities within the programs; as well as the admissions process.
* Agriculture and Resource Economics
* Architecture
* City & Regional Planning
* Civil and Environmental Engineering (Transportation)
* Energy and Resources Group
* Geography
* Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
* Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Society and Environment

11:30-1:30PM
Lunch
Resource tables, with faculty, staff and/or current students available to answer questions.

1:30 - 2:30
Graduate Programs--Small Group Meeting
Each graduate program will meet with students, alumni, faculty and staff in the following rooms to discuss the degree programs, academic and professional opportunities within the programs; as well as the admissions process.

2:30-3:30PM
Plenary Wrap-ups. "Writing the Statement of Purpose" and funding your Graduate Education

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