I am seeking one or two geography interns for the upcoming Fall 2012 semester to write articles here on Geography at About.com. Any undergraduate or graduate student in geography (or recent graduate) may apply. Students receiving academic credit will be given preference. The Geography at About.com interns will write one 600-750 word article about various topics in geography at least once a month from September through December 2012. Interns will be paid a small stipend per article and all articles will include the intern's byline. The internship may lead to a paid contributing writer position on this site. To apply, please send a me a cover email, resume, and writing sample to me at geography.guide@about.com. I look forward to your application!
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am interested
Matt,
I’ll pass the word along to our student email list.
Joe
I am interested as well! Please send me an email about it please!
I must confess that until I first saw this blog a few years ago I was unaware that Geography had somehow engulfed and digested so many areas of study. Already well into my dotage I cannot think of anyone I have had any contact with academically or otherwise heard of who was a geographer.
So, a bit sheepishly, in order to catch up I went to the internet for enlightenment. I searched for “Geography Degrees.” A predominate “hit” was “Geography – Geography Degree requirements, by Matt Rosenberg.
Thinking that I had struck pay dirt I used the option to list Geography Departments world wide. A very impressive list. In the US there are 298 schools with some geography, I guess.
I used another option offered by the site and entered the key words “Geography Degrees.”
The result: “Found 0 matches.”
sir,
i hav been following ur blog for a couple of years and hav a masters in geography . i would like to apply for this internship .
Those who are interested should apply following the instructions in the post. Don- I’m not sure what your point is. I have obviously met many many geographers and in fact there are several national and international organizations of geographers. -Matt
Matt, I would think you would WANT to know that at a site listing you as the author and listing 298 US schools that have Geography Departments also reports that none had a Geography degree program.
I keep trying to get a definition of Geography in my head. Browsing around the internet I conclude Geography is the study of everything taught in the Liberal Arts college of a university except maybe Sports Page Analysis for football players on full scholarship?
Anyway, good luck to those who know.
Feeling kind o stupid going through a long life unaware of the meaning of Geography (as used in this blog) I noticed a site of interest: Institute of Education Sciences/National Center for Education Statistics.
There I learned there are 5,134 degree- granting US schools. Data are given for 35 fields of study. Geography is not among them. Remember, a previous search turned up 298 schools that had a Geography Department or had a department that had Geography combined in its name. (298 is a bit less than 6% of 5,134.)
So I don’t feel quite so much the dolt realizing that at 94% of schools geography gets no billing whatsoever.
This comment is Matt Rosemberg. The person who prepares the information about yhe Basques is misinformed or biasede either disqualifies her. She states Miguel Indurain, the great cyclist is not Basque is Navarro, not Basque. To say he is Basque is like saying President Eienhower or General Schwartzkopf was German.
Not professional at all what you write on thise
I wonder how many more cases of wrong information in your pages. Geographers must be factual, not prejudicial or ignorant.
Thanks.