My name is Johnathan Walker, I’m an Assistant
Professor of Geography and I’ve been at
JMU- this is my 16th year.
The students are really open to learning,
they’re very receptive and so that’s one
of my favourite things about working here:
really good quality students.
I think that the most important piece of advice
I can give to students is that JMU is such
a welcoming place and the courses are all
taught by professors and so we have a lot
of interaction and students are really welcomed
to talk to me about their projects, about
issues that they’re having, study tips,
things like that.
We’re always available for students to talk
to us, so that’s one of the things that
I really encourage students to do.
As a Geographer I’m teaching them about
different places in the world, so they understand
where all these places are.
That’s practical information that they can
use throughout their lives and that’s the
baseline of things.
The information may be forgotten, some things
are going to stick with people, some things
they're going to forget, but the idea of how
to make linkages, especially in geography,
how to make linkages about what happens in
one place and how that affects other places,
so I think that's very practical.
