Overview
Georgia State University is responsive to students' career goals and provides educational and research programs that are relevant to the practical needs of both the students and the metropolitan community. The University offers nearly fifty undergraduate and graduate degree programs covering some 200 fields of study through its five colleges—Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Health and Human Sciences, and Law—and its School of Policy Studies.

Georgia State University is a public institution with more than 24,000 students. The graduate student population of more than 7,000 is one of the largest in the Southeast. The average age of graduate students is 33. Students from 113 countries and all fifty states attend the University.

The Community
The University is located in the heart of Atlanta's central business district. The city is a rapidly growing metropolitan area characterized by a spectacular skyline and a culturally diverse population. Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport is the world's largest and busiest, making the city easily accessible from anywhere in the world. The climate is moderate, with a mean July temperature of 73.4°F (23°C) and a mean January temperature of 50°F (10°C). Atlanta is located in the foothills of the southern Appalachian mountain range and is close to both the Great Smoky Mountains and the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

Programs of study and degree requirements
The Department of Anthropology and Geography offers a program of study that leads to a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree with concentrations in physical and environmental geography, urban geography, and thematic cartography. A professional certificate in geographic information science is also offered. Geography faculty members are involved in a variety of studies, including hydroclimatology; fluvial geomorphology; climatology; biogeography; urban investigations of suburban growth nodes and urban economic factors explaining these new growth patterns, gender, race, and the way in which the city has responded to these societal factors; social theory and urban geography; small-scale cartographic design; and methods of implementing new desktop mapping into cartography production.

Facilities & Resources
The University libraries house more than 1.3 million volumes and subscribe to 12,000 periodicals and newspapers, many of which are available in full text via online and CD-ROM resources. Most of the materials are housed in the William Russell Pullen Library complex. Other libraries include the Law Library and the Instructional Technology Center in the College of Education. Large-scale computing is offered via an Amdahl 5995-500 using IBM's MVS/XA operating system and a Unisys 2200/50, which supports the PALS Across Georgia Resource Sharing and Union Catalog projects, and a Sun SPARC server to support the University system's GALILEO project. A Silicon Graphics Power Challenge L provides support for research and instructional use. A Sun SPARC 1000 supports UNIX-based e-mail services. More than 100 network fileservers provide access to centrally supplied software, support e-mail (GroupWise), and provide services to more than 5,000 microcomputer workstations, including more than 550 workstations in open and instructional labs. Campus printing resources include more than 250 low-speed remote network printers and a central printing complex consisting of a Xerox Docuprint network printer, a Xerox Docutech Publisher, a Xerox 4850 spot color printer, and a Xerox 4700 full-color printer. Research facilities in the department include a cartography/statistics laboratory and a GIS/spatial analysis laboratory equipped with modern software to facilitate a number of up-to-date spatial studies and presentations. The department has modern cartographic production facilities.

Expenses and Aid
Costs: For tuition figures, students should visit the University's Web site at http://www.gsu.edu.

Financial Aid: Teaching and research assistantships are available. Two part-time staff positions in the department are filled by graduate students whenever possible. Graduate students may be research assistants on funded grant projects.

Housing/Living Expenses: Georgia State University has a nonresidential campus located in downtown Atlanta at the center of a network of highways and rapid-transit services that extend throughout the greater metropolitan area. This transportation network makes it possible to live anywhere in the metropolitan area and get to downtown easily. The cost of living in Atlanta is moderate compared with that in other urban centers in the United States. Dormitory housing is available at the Georgia State Village, a short distance from Georgia State's downtown campus.

How to Apply
Application materials may be obtained from the department or from the Office of Graduate Studies of the College of Arts and Sciences. Applicants must submit the Application for Graduate Study and the University Information forms, a $25 application fee, official copies of transcripts from each institution attended, General Test scores on the Graduate Record Examinations, two letters of recommendation, and a statement of educational and career goals. Applicants may obtain additional information about the Department of Anthropology and Geography by contacting the Director of Graduate Studies or by viewing the Web page, listed below.

Borden D. Dent, Ph.D., Clark, 1970. Cartography, with emphasis on thematic mapping, map design and communication, desktop mapping, mental mapping, and retail geography.

Truman A. Hartshorn, Ph.D., Iowa, 1968. Urban geography, with emphasis on housing, transportation, suburbanization processes, and the recent growth of suburban downtowns and their impact on metropolitan structure.

Paul A. Knapp, Ph.D., Georgia, 1989. Biogeography, climatology, bioclimatology, arid environments.

Richard Pillsbury, Ph.D., Penn State, 1968. Cultural geography; multifaceted approaches to the study of cultural geography, with an emphasis on the evolution of the contemporary American visual landscape.

Dona J. Stewart, Ph.D., Florida, 1994. Economic and urban development, Middle East and Africa, agricultural development.

Susan M. Walcott, Ph.D., Indiana, 1995. Urban and regional economic development, life science industry, Asia.

Zhi-Yong (John) Yin, Ph.D., Georgia, 1990. Physical geography, with emphasis on wetland hydrology, hydroclimatology, water resources, process geomorphology, and effects of human activities on stream systems.

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