182 / FIELDS OF INSTRUCTION
 Geography of the United States and Canada, with emphasis on patterns of
settlement and the distribution and development of economic activities.
GPY 685-SEMINAR: MIDDLE AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. 5 credits
 Cultural, economic, political, and resource characteristics and development of
representative areas.
GPY 686-SEMINAR: SOUTH AMERICA. 5 credits
 Cultural, economic, political, and resource characteristics and development of
representative areas.
GPY 687-SEMINAR: BRAZIL. 5 credits
 Prerequisites: GPY 484, GPY 485, GPY 486. Search for and analysis of prob-
lems arising from the interaction between the physical and cultural environments
in Brazil's major geographic regions.
GPY 688-RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND CONSERVATION IN LATIN AMERICA.
 4 credits
 Regional appraisal of the human and natural resources. Analysis of the role of
resource utilization and conservation in the development of Latin American countries.
GPY 689-SEMINAR: LAND, MAN, AND MIGRATION IN LATIN AMERICA.
 4 credits
 Physical and cultural factors operative in population movements in Latin Amer-
ica, particularly from cold highlands to hot lowlands, and from rural sectors to
metropolitan areas.
GPY 690-TROPICAL LANDS AND THEIR UTILIZATION. 12 credits
 Prerequisites: GPY 501, GPY 605. Field course emphasizing analytic inquiries
into land use systems in Costa Rica. Special topics on land utilization types are
environmental influences, settlement and field patterns, the market factor, labor
supply, and transportation. Given in Costa Rica as part of the program of the
Organization for Tropical Studies.
GPY 695-SELECTED TOPICS IN GEOGRAPHY. 1 to 6 credits
 Prerequisite: Master's degree in geography or equivalent. Seminar in modern
geography.
GPY 697-SUPERVISED RESEARCH. 1 to 5 credits
 Credit not applicable toward degree. May be repeated.
GPY 698-SUPERVISED TEACHING. 1 to 5 credits
 Credit not applicable toward degree. May be repeated.
GPY 699-MASTER'S RESEARCH. 1 to 17 credits
GPY 799-DOCTORAL RESEARCH. 1 to 17 credits

 GEOLOGY
 (College of Arts and Sciences)
 GRADUATE FACULTY 1971-72
WAHL, F. M., Chairman; BLANCHARD, F. N.; BROOKS, H. K.; EADES, J. L.;
EDWARDS, R. A.; GRIFFIN, G. M., JR.; MIFFLIN, M. D.; NICOL, D.; PATTON,
T. H.; PIERCE, R. W., JR.; PIRKLE, E. C., JR.; RANDAZZO, A. F.; RAPPE-
NECKER, C.; WEBB, S. D.

Graduate Coordinator: A. F. RANDAZZO
 For admission to graduate status in the Department of Geology a student