Courses

GEOG H195A, 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...

GEOG C188, Geographic Information Systems

Catalog Description: This course introduces the student to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It addresses both theory and application and provides the student with a dynamic analytical framework within which temporal and spatial data and information is gathered, integrated, interpreted, and manipulated. It emphasizes a conceptual appreciation of GIS and offers an opportunity to apply some of those concepts to contemporary geographical and planning issues.

Units: 4.0

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GEOG 187, Geographic Information Analysis

Catalog Description: A spatial analytic approach to digital mapping and GIS. Given that recording the geolocation of scientific, business and social data is now routine, the question of what we can learn from the spatial aspect of data arises. This class looks at challenges in analyzing spatial data, particularly scale and spatial dependence. Various methods are considered such as hotspot detection, interpolation, and map overlay. The emphasis throughout is hands on and practical rather than theoretical.

Units: 4.0

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GEOG 186, Web Cartography

Catalog Description: This course will focus on the application of cartographic principles to the design of interactive web maps. We will explore the capabilities and limits of web tools for representing geographic data and examine how recent developments in geospatial technologies have influenced how we both use and produce maps. Students will create their own thematic web maps.

Units: 5.0

Prerequisites: None

Formats:

Fall and/or Spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours...

GEOG 185, Earth System Remote Sensing

Catalog Description: This lecture-lab course is focused on Earth system remote sensing applications, including a survey of methods and an accompanying lab. This first part of the course will cover general principles, image acquisition and interpretation, and analytical approaches. The second part will cover global change remote sensing applications that will include terrestrial ecosystems, Earth sciences, the hydrosphere, and human land-use.

Units: 3.0

Prerequisites: None

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GEOG 183, Cartographic Representation

Catalog Description: Problems in the representation of quantitative and qualitative data on thematic maps.

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: Letter

Final Exam Status: Final exam not required

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GEOG 171, Special Topics in Physical Geography

Catalog Description: This course is designed to provide a vehicle for instructors to address a topic in physical geography with which they are especially concerned; usually more restricted than the subject matter of a regular lecture course. Topics will vary with instructor. See departmental announcements.

Units: 3.0

Prerequisites: None

Repeat Rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Formats: ...

GEOG 170, Special Topics in Geography

Catalog Description: This course is designed to provide a vehicle for instructors to address a topic with which they are especially concerned; usually more restricted than the subject matter of a regular lecture course. Topics will vary with instructor. See departmental announcements.

Units: 3.0

Prerequisites: None

Repeat Rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Formats:

Fall and/or...

GEOG 167AC, Border Geographies, Migration and Decolonial Movements of Latin America

Catalog Description: This course examines how today’s bounded geographies were shaped by racialized and regionalized discourse and practice, setting the foundation for contemporary struggles over political, economic and social identities along and across Latin America. Specifically, the course incorporates the study of the United States’ historical relationship with Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in order to understand how these histories map onto the productions of borders, regimes of migration and citizenship, and movements that...

GEOG 164, Global China

Catalog Description: This course focuses on four issues in contemporary China: (1) the transformation of the socialist state, (2) the environmental politics, (3) the interplay of gender and class in the transitional society, (4) urban expansion and the changing rural-urban dynamics, and (5) global China. Each of these issues will be examined with reference to critical theories of development and histories of China's modernization. This is a lecture course designed mainly for upper level undergraduate students with preliminary background in East Asian-...