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Spatial Analysis for the Undergraduate Social Science Curriculum

July 12-23, 2004: Santa Barbara, CA

Agenda

Overview
The UCSB workshop provides an introduction to core spatial concepts and analytic tools and their potential value in social science education. The two-week workshop schedule is designed to facilitate an introduction to basic spatial analysis content but also meet participants' specific instructional development goals. The workshop content will progress in three blocks: (1) Core spatial concepts and their implementation in GIS, (2) Spatially integrating social science theory and analysis, and (3) Visualization of social science data. The content will stress basic themes and methods that should transcend disciplinary base. The labs, in contrast, will allow the workshop participants to self select into tracks defined jointly by topic and data type. Small group discussions and teamwork will be used throughout the workshop to facilitate the integration of lectures and lab work with pedagogical development.

All lecture sessions will take place in Ellison Hall, Room 2620. The lab sessions will occur down the hall in the Star Lab.

WEEK I: CORE SPATIAL CONCEPTS AND METHODS

Monday, July 12: Introduction
9:00	Welcome Workshop vision, goals, and overview (password protected) Instructor greetings and introductions	Don Janelle, All SPACE Instructors
9:30	Participant Introductions and Statements of Personal Workshop Goals Discussion	Fiona Goodchild, Moderator
10:15	Break
10:30	Overview of Spatial Concepts in Social Science Disciplines Examples from undergraduate course planning and lectures with reference to topics in anthropology, economics, political science, sociology, urban studies. Discussion	Stuart Sweeney
12:00	Lunch
1:15	Workshop lab logistics and access	Alex Keuper, Rob Farrell
1:45	Small-group Pedagogy Discussion Undergraduate teaching experiences and philosophies of participants Role, or expected role, of spatial concepts or tools in their discipline	F Goodchild, Stacy Rebich, Moderators
2:45	Break
3:00 - 5:00	Introduction to GIS	Keuper and Farrell
5:30	Reception (UCSB Faculty Club)

Tuesday, July 13: Spatial Concepts in the Social Sciences
9:00	Core Concepts and Methods of Spatial Thinking Geographic Information Systems/Science: Basic concepts of GIS	Mike Goodchild
10:15	Break
10:30	The Challenge of Spatial Social Science GIS methods for spatial social science Nature of spatial processes and their representation in GIS GIS and its role in general social science education Discussion Thinking Spatially in the Social Sciences (4.5 MB) (password protected)	M Goodchild
12:00	Lunch
1:15	An Introduction to the SPACE Website Resources	Janelle and Gamaiel Zavala
1:45	Lab - Introduction to Basic GIS Functionality/ Hands-on Demo (ARCGIS)	Keuper and Farrell
2:45	Break
3:00 - 5:00	Continuation of lab

Wednesday, July 14:
6:00 a.m.	Hike to Inspiration Point, pick up at Manzanita Village (for those interested)
9:00	Integrating Space into Social Science Theory and Analysis Social science theory and relationship to fundamental spatial concepts Construct / measure issues in spatial analysis Philosophy of science and implied data types Basic data types, collections, measurement Discussion	Sweeney
10:15	Break
10:30	Spatial analytic methods (exploratory/descriptive/inferential) Point patterns - representation, pattern analysis tests and interpretations Areal analysis - representation, pattern analysis tests and interpretations Space-time analysis - conceptualization and representation Discussion	Sweeney
11:00	Introduction to Spatial Analysis Lecture Outline	M Goodchild
12:00	Lunch
1:15 - 5:00	Lab Multiple data source tailored to social science disciplines (segregation, income distribution, migration, language cultural diffusion, product flows, voting behavior, population and development) Parallel labs based on different data types and topics Lab exercises using GeoDA	Sweeney, Farrell

Thursday, July 15:
9:00	Visualization of Spatial Data I The cartographic communication process: map purpose, map functions, and map audience The art in c a r t ography: graphic design issues (14.1 MB)	Sara Fabrikant
10:15	Break
10:30	Locational Reference Systems and Map Projection	Waldo Tobler
12:00	Lunch
1:15 - 5:00	Lab Downloading and processing census data (WWW/Excel) Depicting spatial data for exploration and analysis with GIS (Excel/ArcGIS) US Census FactFinder (census data) ESRI Census Watch (census data portal and information) ESRI Geography Network (tiger line data and tons of other spatial data) cart/viz links by Slocum et al. (2004) Miller, G. A. 1994. Reprint of The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information. Psychological Review, vol. 101, no. 2: 343-351. The links below are password protected: Sample evaluation criteria for maps Downloading and pre-processing census data Choropleth mapping with GIS example table Evans, I.S. 1977. The Selection of Class Intervals. Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 2: 98-124. Fisher, W. D. 1958. On Grouping for Maximum Homogeneity. Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 53(Dec): 789-798. Tobler, W. 2001. Map Making for Social Scientists , ASA, Anaheim. Tobler, W. 2001. Geographical Movement , Santa Barbara, California. Tobler, W. 2002. Computer Cartograms , Santa Barbara, California. Tobler, W. 2002. A Continuous Transformation Useful for Districting Wiley , Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tobler, W. 2002. Geographic Area and Map Projections , Santa Barbara, California. Tobler, W. 2002. Pseudo-Cartograms , Santa Barbara, California.	Fabrikant, Keuper, Farrell
5:30	BBQ at Goleta Beach

Friday, July 16:
9:00	Visualization of Spatial Data II Mapping social science data: data classification Symbolizing point, line, and areal features Statistical Mapping: Volumetric Data (5.7 MB)	Fabrikant
10:15	Break
10:30	Problems and Principles for Mapping Spatial Interactions FlowMapper Introduction to weekend assignment	Tobler
12:00	Lunch
1:15	Resources for Course Evaluation and Learning Assessment Reading: The Cognitive Process Dimension (9.5 MB), from A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing (password protected)	F Goodchild, Rebich
2:15	Taking Stock General Participant Overview of Workshop Experiences, Questions, and Needs Overview of Objectives for Week Two	F Goodchild, Janelle, Rebich
3:15	Break
3:30 � 5:00	Open Lab	Farrell, Keuper

Saturday, July 17:
TBA	Whale Watching Trip (for those interested)

Sunday, July 18:
TBA	Santa Ynez Valley Wine Tasting (for those interested)

WEEK II. CURRICULUM DESIGN ELEMENTS AND CONSULTATIONS

Monday, July 19:
9:00	Review of FlowMapper weekend assignment	Tobler
9:30	Panel on How I Teach and Why I do it that Way Ideas on course design, use of exercises, course evaluation, student learning assessment – F Goodchild and Rebich, moderators	M Goodchild, Fabrikant, Sweeney, Tobler
10:15	Break
10:30	Participant Responses and Discussion of Panel	Participants
11:30	Schedule Individual and/or Group Project Discussions Participants may schedule meetings with workshop instructors to discuss their course and curriculum development projects
12:00	Lunch
1:15	Guest Presentation Bridging Social Theory and Social Research: Cross-National Comparisons of Religion and Authority in the US and Europe (password protected) Above also available online. Reading: Modernity's Wager Intro (password protected)	Jim Proctor, Geography / Religious Studies
2:45	Break
3:00 - 5:00	FlowMapper Exercise and/or Open Lab / Scheduled Individual and Group Project Discussions

Tuesday, July 20:
6:00 a.m.	Beach Hike, pick up at Manzanita Village (for those interested)
9:00	An Overview and Discussion of GIS Software Packages for Teaching ArcGIS GeoMedia (Intergraph) Idrisi Kilimanjaro Manifold MapInfo	Jeff Howarth
10:15	Break
10:30	Participant Progress Reports	Participants, Sweeney
11:00	Open Lab / Scheduled Individual and/or Group Project Discussions
12:00	Lunch
1:15	Guest Presentation "Research Design Issues in the Analysis of Spatial Data: An Example with Schools, Neighbors and Property Values" Please read in preparation: Thomas J. Kane, Douglas O. Staiger, and Stephanie K. Riegg 2004 “Do Good Schools or Good Neighbors Raise Property Values?” (password protected) Lecture Slides (password protected)	Peter J. Kuhn, Economics
2:45	Break
3:00 - 5:00	Open Lab / Scheduled Individual and/or Group Project Discussions

Wednesday, July 21:
9:00	Spatial Preference / Attitude Data: A Practical Application of Data Collection and GIS Functionality	Keuper
10:15	Break
10:30	Participant Progress Reports	Participants, Sweeney
10:45	Guest Presentation "Spatial Aspects of Globalization" (1.8 MB) UC Atlas of Gloabal Inequality Flyer (580 kb) (files above are password protected) The UC Atlas of Global Inequality	Richard Appelbaum, Sociology / Global & International Studies
12:00	Lunch
1:15	Guest Presentation "Resource-dependent Rural Communities and the Case of Spotted Owls in the Logging Regions of the Pacific NW"	Bill Freudenburg, Environmental Studies / Sociology
2:45	Break
3:00 - 5:00	Open Lab / Scheduled Individual and/or Group Project Discussions

Thursday, July 22:
9:00	GIS for Education Making the Ultimate Map	M Goodchild
10:15	Break
10:30	Participant Progress Reports	Participants, Sweeney
11:00	Open Lab / Scheduled Individual and/or Group Project Discussions
12:00	Lunch
1:15	Guest Presentation "Spatial Perspectives on Risk Perception"	Barbara Herr-Harthorn, Anthropology
2:45	Break
3:00 � 5:00	Open Lab / Scheduled Individual and/or Group Project Discussions
6:15	Dinner, beach hike, swimming, and other diversions (909 West Campus Lane, Goleta)

Friday, July 23:
9:00	Closing Workshop Procedures	Janelle
9:15	Project Presentations by Workshop Participants (to be scheduled)	Sweeney, Moderator
10:15	Break
10:30	Project Presentations by Workshop Participants (to be scheduled)	Fabrikant, Moderator
12:00	Lunch
1:15	Project Presentations by Workshop Participants (to be scheduled)	Keuper, Moderator
3:15	Break
3:30	Workshop Exit and Follow-up Surveys / Certificates / SPACE Awards Program for Curriculum Development Initiatives	Janelle
4:00	Close of Workshop

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