Courses

GEOG C100, Art and Ecology

Catalog Description: Taught by faculty from the Departments of Art Practice, Geography, and History of Art, this Big Ideas course is a space where we collectively study, think, and make art about the cataclysmic ecological crises that threaten our planet today. Examining possible notions of the animal, the botanic, the oceanic, the geologic, and the atmospheric, among other themes, the course prompts embodied responses to this urgent moment through complex, experimental, scholarly, and practice-based interventions. The aim is to read human...

GEOG 85, Mapping: Space, Cartography and Power

Catalog Description: From mapping protests to the polar ice caps, colonialism to crises, board games to the baroque, this course offers an introduction to critical cartography and the politics of maps. Broadly centered on the contemporary carto-politics of the Pacific, each lecture focuses on a different field of mapping - such as protest mapping, ocean mapping or star mapping - comparing the techniques and conceptual underpinnings of cartography as a representational tool. It explores the way in which maps continue to reflect and shape our worlds, how...

GEOG 81, Data, Evidence, and Methods in Geographic Inquiry

Catalog Description: This course introduces students to the many kinds of qualitative and quantitative information, data, and evidence that geographers use across the range of fields of study within geography, and to methods for collecting and analyzing these kinds of information.

Units: 5.0

Prerequisites: None

Formats:

Fall and/or Spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 4 hours of laboratory per week

Grading Basis...

GEOG 84, Sophomore Seminar

Catalog Description: Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.

Units: 1.0 or 2.0

Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor

Repeat Rules: Course may be...

GEOG 80, An Introduction to Geospatial Technologies: Mapping, Space and Power

Catalog Description: This course offers an introduction to the increasingly diverse range of geospatial technologies and tools including but not limited to geographical information systems (GIS). Merging theoretical concepts with technical instruction, students will develop critical knowledge and skills in web-mapping, geographic information science and cartography, including how these tools take on and reinforce fundamental geographical concepts and shape our lives, our environments and, increasingly, our futures.

Units: 4...

GEOG 24, Freshman Seminar

Catalog Description: The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen.

Units: 1.0

Prerequisites: None

Repeat Rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Formats:...

GEOG 199, Supervised Independent Study

Catalog Description: Supervised independent study

Units: 1.0 - 4.0

Prerequisites: Senior standing; overall 3.0 major GPA

Repeat Rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Formats:

Fall and/or Spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week

Summer:...

GEOG 198, Directed Group Study

Catalog Description: Directed group study

Units: 1.0 - 4.0

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor

Repeat Rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Formats:

Fall and/or Spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-7.5 hours of directed group study per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 1.5...

GEOG 197, Field Study in Geography

Catalog Description: Supervised experience in application of geography in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.

Units: 1.0 - 4.0

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor

Repeat Rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Formats:

Fall and/or Spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week...

GEOG H195B, Honors Course

Catalog Description: Required for Honors in Geography. Students will write a thesis. One or two semesters, at the instructor's option; if two semesters, credit and grade to be awarded upon completion of the sequence.

Units: 1.0 - 4.0

Prerequisites: Admission to Honors Program

Repeat Rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Formats:

Fall and/or Spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per...