Job Description
Teaching duties will include introductory World Geography and courses within his/her areas of expertise at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including participation at the doctoral
level.
Required Qualification
PhD degree in Geography is required at time of appointment. Demonstrated records of excellence in both teaching and research are required. The successful candidate will teach introductory World
Geography and courses within his/her areas of expertise at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including participation at the doctoral level.
The department has 32 full-time faculty members serving more than 600 undergraduate majors and approximately 200 graduate students in BA, BS, MS, Master of Applied Geography, and three PhD degree
programs. The PhD programs focus on geographic education, environmental geography and geographic information science. The department houses the Texas Alliance for Geographic Education, the Gilbert M.
Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education, the James and Marilyn Lovell Center for Environmental Geography and Hazards Research, and the Texas Center for Geographic Information Science.
Preferred Qualification
Preference may be given to an applicant with a regional interest in North Africa and the Middle East or Sub-Saharan Africa, or with a geographic education interest that will interface well with
the traditional K-12 regional geography curriculum.
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Science, University College and the Graduate
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