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GEOG 100 Introduction to Geography (5) I&S
Introduction to the study of human geography and the major themes of the discipline. Topics include: human-environment interactions, migration and human mobility, patterns of health and nutrition, industrialization and urbanization, and the geography of culture and politics. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description:
Douglas Mercer
Michael P. Brown
GEOG 102 World Regions (5) I&S
Spatial study of world regions, based on historical, cultural, political, economic, and other factors. An attempt to understand the underlying forces that have led to the formation of regions and regional patterns.
GEOG 111 Global Youth (5) I&S Jeffrey
Examines how a focus on young people might inform our understanding of key aspects of global social and political change. Students discuss the links between their own lives and those of students in other global contexts, with particular reference to health threats, environmental transformations, and educational change. Offered: jointly with SIS 111; W.
GEOG 123 Introduction to Globalization (5) I&S Sparke
Provides an introduction to the debates over globalization. Focuses on the growth and intensification of global ties. Addresses the resulting inequalities and tensions, as well as the new opportunities for cultural and political exchange. Topics include the impacts on government, finance, labor, culture, the environment, health, and activism. Offered: jointly with SIS 123.
Instructor Course Description:
Matthew Sparke
GEOG 195 Special Topics in Geography (1-5, max. 10) I&S
GEOG 200 Introduction to Human Geography (5) I&S Withers
Patterns and systems of human occupancy of the world. Emphasis on cultural processes, dynamic change, functional relations, networks, and diffusion models.
GEOG 205 Introduction to Physical Sciences and the Environment (5) NW ZumBrunnen
Major atmospheric, hydrologic, and geomorphic processes used to interpret the character, distribution, and human significance of different natural and human-altered environments. Includes laboratory exercises for science and non-science majors, geography majors and nonmajors.
Instructor Course Description:
Craig Zumbrunnen
GEOG 207 Economic Geography (5) I&S Beyers, Harrington
The changing locations and spatial patterns of economic activity, including: production in agriculture, manufacturing, and services; spatial economic principles of trade, transportation, communications, and corporate organization; regional economic development, and the diffusion of technological innovation. Offered: AWS.
Instructor Course Description:
James W. Harrington
GEOG 208 Geography of the World Economy: Regional Fortunes and the Rise of Global Markets (5) I&S Ellis
Examines the relationship between the globalization of economic activity and regional development. Topics include international trade, colonialism, industrial capitalism, advanced capitalism, and the globalization of labor markets.
GEOG 230 Urbanization and Development: Geographies of Global Inequality (5) I&S Lawson
Examines global to local interactions of economic, political, and social forces shaping urbanization and development processes across the globe. Provides an introduction to critical development studies, focusing on Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Also examines debates over the causes and geographic patterns of social inequality worldwide.
Instructor Course Description:
Victoria A. Lawson
GEOG 236 Development and Challenge in Greater China (5) I&S Chan
Studies the geography of development processes, patterns, and problems in "Greater China": mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Covers physical geography, history, and economic and political systems, with major focus on geographical issues in China's development: agriculture, population, industry and trade, and relations with Hong Kong and Taiwan. Offered: jointly with SISEA 236.
GEOG 245 Geographic Perspectives on U.S. Population Diversity (5) I&S Withers
Introduction to population geography. Offers a practical understanding of population processes (fertility, mortality, and migration); knowledge of geographic variation in population structures and characteristics; knowledge of data sources for demographic research; experience using formal demographic methods for geographic research; and an appreciation for the demographic underpinnings of contemporary social issues. Offered: W
GEOG 258 Maps and GIS (5) I&S
Explores how people represent the world with maps and geographic information systems (GIS). Trains students in map use for basic navigation, urban management, and environmental analysis. Considers role of spatial databases in commerce, decision-making, and analysis. Helps map readers better determine quality, usefulness, and representation of information.
Instructor Course Description:
Sung Soon Hwang
GEOG 270 Geographies of International Development and Environmental Change (5) I&S Jeffrey
Considers the meaning of development and how debates over international development link to environmental concerns. Examines how the globalization of agricultural production and debates over genetically modified food alter ideas about development, nature, and the environment. Addresses fair trade policies and practices and the obligations of multinational corporations. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Douglas Mercer
GEOG 271 Geography of Food and Eating (5) I&S Jarosz
Examines food production, distribution, and consumption issues across geographic scales. Focus ranges from the microcosm of the individual body to food and eating at the national and global scales. Explores the political, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of food and eating in particular spaces, places, environments, contexts, and regions. Offered: Sp.
GEOG 276 Introduction to Political Geography (5) I&S Brown
Examines both the geography of politics and the politics of geography at a variety of spatial scales and in different global locations. Typical topics include: geographies of the state and state power; geopolitics and globalization; national and local politics, and other politics of culture, health, nature, and the body.
GEOG 277 Geography of Cities (5) I&S England, Withers
Study of (1) systems of cities--their location, distribution, functions, and competition; and (2) their internal structure--the location of activities within urban areas. Particular emphasis on current urban problems-sprawl, housing, segregation, economic growth, and metropolitan transportation.
Instructor Course Description:
Kim V.L. England
Suzanne D Withers
GEOG 280 Introduction to the Geography of Health and Health Care (5) I&S Mayer
Concepts of health from a geographical viewpoint, including human-environment relations, development, geographical patterns of disease, and health systems in developed and developing countries.
GEOG 295 Special Topics in Geography (1-5, max. 10) I&S
GEOG 301 Cultural Geography (5) I&S
Analysis of the role of culture in the formation of landscape patterns; components of culture that contribute not only to a "sense of place," but also to the mosaic of settlement patterns and occupancy that can be traced to culture.
Instructor Course Description:
Mona A Atia
GEOG 302 The Pacific Northwest (3) I&S Beyers
Settlement pattern in the Pacific Northwest, emphasizing economic and historical factors, including the location of resource-oriented industries, policies regarding the use of public lands, and bases of the development of major urban areas in the region. Offered: W.
GEOG 308 Canada: A Geographic Interpretation (5) I&S Sparke
Examines the overlapping economic, cultural, and political geographies shaping life in contemporary Canada. Topics include: free trade, constitutional crisis, feminism in Canada, aboriginal politics, and border region phenomena. Attention paid to how specific geographic interpretations of Canada by Canadians actually play a part in national life. Offered: jointly with SISCA 308; Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Matthew Sparke
GEOG 310 Immigrant America: Trends and Policies from a Geographic Perspective (5) I&S Ellis
Examines U.S. immigration trends and policies from a geographic perspective. Topics include where immigrants come from, where they settle in the United States. immigrant employment enclaves, the effects of U.S. immigration policy on immigrant settlement and employment patterns, illegal immigration, citizenship, and barriers to immigrant success in the United States.
GEOG 313 East Asia (5) I&S Chan
Introduction to the contemporary geography of East Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. Topics include: physical geography, historical settings, general development patterns, agriculture, population, industry, and trade. Focuses on major geographic issues in development. Case studies from different countries used to illustrate various themes.
GEOG 315 Explanation and Understanding in Geography (5) I&S Brown
Covers the beginning steps in the research process. Introduces the discipline of geography, the department, and current faculty through the research aims of explanation and understanding that frame social scientific inquiry. Students develop basic library and writing skills as preparation for future research methods classes and independent research.
GEOG 316 Urban Economics (5) I&S
Application of economic analysis to urban trends, problems, and prescriptions, such as changing urban form and function, urban public finance, housing and renewal, poverty and race, transportation, and environmental problems. Prerequisite: ECON 200. Offered: jointly with ECON 316.
GEOG 326 Quantitative Methods in Geography (5) I&S Chan
Introduction to quantitative methods in geography, with a primary focus on statistical techniques. Examines the basic concepts, reasoning, and procedures geographers use in developing, analyzing, applying, and presenting quantitative methods. Topics include: generating and describing data; elementary probability, hypothesis testing, comparative tests; finding relationships; and using and misusing statistics. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Kam Wing Chan
Michael P. Brown
GEOG 330 Latin America: Landscapes of Change (5) I&S Lawson
Examines operation of economic, social, and political processes across countries of Latin America-on international, national, and local scales-to understand common issues facing the region and different impacts in particular countries. Topics include internationalization of Latin American economies; agrarian and urban change; popular movements. Offered: W.
GEOG 333 Russia's Changing Landscape (5) I&S ZumBrunnen
The Russian landscape as it has been affected by Soviet planning, migration and settlement, urbanization, industrialization, the results of collectivization in agriculture, and the growth of a transport network.
GEOG 335 Geography of the Developing World (5) I&S
Characteristics and causes, external and internal, of Third World development and obstacles to that development. Special attention to demographic and agricultural patterns, resource development, industrialization and urbanization, drawing on specific case studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Recommended: GEOG 100 or GEOG 230. Offered: jointly with SIS 335.
Instructor Course Description:
Maureen H. Hickey
GEOG 336 Development and Challenge in China (5) I&S Chan
Examines the geography of China's development since 1949. Introduces China's physical geography, history, and economic and political system. Emphasizes China's uneven development in agriculture, population, industry, and trade. Also examines problems China faces in meeting its internal food demand, as well as the external processes of globalization. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Kam Wing Chan
GEOG 342 Geography of Inequality (5) I&S England
Geographies of social, political, and economic inequality. Focus is usually on North American cities. Examines the theoretical underpinning of inequality. Explores topics such as the spatial distribution of wealth and poverty, the geographies of exclusion, and discrimination in paid employment and housing.
Instructor Course Description:
Douglas Mercer
Kim V.L. England
Jonathan Glick
Michael P. Brown
Richard L Morrill
GEOG 343 Comparative Geographies of Youth (5) I&S Jeffrey
Examines how three key global processes - rising levels of formal education, changing health regimes , and environmental transformation - are shaping youth in the US and South Asia. Examines ways young people rework broader structures, paying particular attention to their economic livelihoods, cultural practices, and political engagements. Offered: jointly with SISSA 343; A.
GEOG 344 Migration in the Global Economy (5) I&S Mitchell
Analyzes the relationship between human mobility in the late 20th century and changes in the global economy. Allows the students to gain familiarity with scholarly research on international migration from a diversity of approaches and methods. Offered: jointly with SIS 344; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Katharyne Mitchell
GEOG 349 Geography of International Trade (5) I&S Harrington
Introduces the theories and practice of international trade and foreign direct investment. Topics include: trade theory and policy; economic integration; currency markets and foreign exchange; trade operations and logistics; the international regulatory environment; and marketing, location and entry, and finance, accounting, and taxation. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
James W. Harrington
GEOG 350 Marketing and Retail Geographies (5) I&S Harrington
Introduction to the geography of retailing and consumer behavior. Focuses on methods of analyzing market areas at multiple scales. Reviews work in the cultural-geographic interpretation of retailing and marketing. Empirical examples focus on the United States and Great Britain, but additional international information is included. Recommended: GEOG 207. Offered: Sp.
GEOG 360 Principles of GIS Mapping (5) I&S, QSR Elwood, Nyerges
Origins, development, and methods of cartographic mapping. Principles of data representation and map design for thematic mapping and spatial analysis. Introduction to principles of geographic information systems. Offered: ASp.
Instructor Course Description:
Thomas M Edwards
Timothy L. Nyerges
Sarah A. Elwood
Sung Soon Hwang
GEOG 366 Introduction to Regional Economic Development (3/5) I&S Harrington
The process of regional economic development. Theories and conceptualizations of economic growth and structural change, technological change and industrial development, spatial variation in economic activities and government policies. Recommended: GEOG 207; ECON 201.
GEOG 367 Economic Uses of Geographic Information (5) I&S Harrington
Uses of area data and the geographic information systems (GISs) that handle them in routing, marketing, service-are assessment, and site location. Considers key economic-geography concepts, marketing approaches, questions of data availability and suitability, and GIS. Prerequisite: GEOG 360.
Instructor Course Description:
James W. Harrington
GEOG 370 Problems in Resource Management (5) I&S ZumBrunnen
Principles and practices of effective conservation and utilization of natural resources. Role of technology in resource use. Physical, political, and economic aspects of resource management for food, population, land, water, air, energy, and timber resources. Recommended: GEOG 100. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Craig Zumbrunnen
Douglas Mercer
GEOG 371 World Hunger and Resource Development (5) I&S Jarosz
Addresses issues of hunger and poverty in their relationship to resource development at the local, national, and global levels. Examines various approaches to the problem of world hunger rooted in critical development studies. Recommended: GEOG 230, GEOG 330, or GEOG 335.
GEOG 372 Asian Sustainable Development (5) I&S
Examines the contemporary relationship between environmental protection and development paths in Asia. Inquires into the forces driving both environmental change and societal responses (state and local regulations, social movements, etc.) to that change, at many geographical scales. Asian concepts of nature-society relations also explored. Offered: jointly with SISA 372; W.
GEOG 375 Geopolitics (5) I&S Sparke
An introduction to both political geography and geopolitics, addressing the fundamental links between power and space. Topics covered include: theories of power, space, and modernity; the formation of modern states; international geopolitics in the aftermath of the Cold War; the post-colonial nation-state; and the geopolitics of resistance. Offered: jointly with SIS 375.
GEOG 377 Urban Political Geography (5) I&S Brown
Examines how the spatial structure of cities and towns affects and is affected by political processes. Considers both traditional and newer forms of politics, as global and local issues. Special attention paid to where politics take place within local contexts across state, civil society, home, and the body. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael P. Brown
GEOG 378 Policing the City (5) I&S Herbert
Investigates how and why formal and informal order is established in urban areas, how this order produces advantages and disadvantages, and possibilities of alternative visions of order. Topics include formal means of control (zoning, laws, policing, building codes) and informal means of control (gossip, ostracism, peer pressure, local politics). Offered: jointly with LSJ 378; A.
GEOG 380 Geographical Patterns of Health and Disease (5) I&S Mayer
Geography of infectious and chronic diseases at local, national, and international scales; environmental, cultural, and social explanations of those variations; comparative aspects of health systems. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Jonathan D Mayer
GEOG 395 Special Topics in Geography (1-5, max. 10) I&S
GEOG 401 Culture, Capital, and the City (5) I&S
Examines current themes in social theory as they apply to the urban landscape. Includes the interconnections of cultural and economic processes and the spatial patternings of race, class, and gender in the modern urban context. Offered: A.
GEOG 403 Modern European-Islamic Migration, Integration, and Citizenship (5) I&S Mitchell
Offers a theoretical and empirical understanding of migration processes and patterns in Europe, with a focus on Muslim immigration in the post WWII period. Analyzes the impact of European Union mandates, globalization processes, and international, national, and urban policies on Muslim immigrant rights and identity formation. Offered: A; jointly with EURO 403.
GEOG 425 Qualitative Methodology in Geography (5) I&S Jarosz
Historical and philosophical overview of qualitative methodology in design of geography research strategies. Techniques of interviewing, participant observation, and archival research. Forms of analyses such as textual interpretation, discourse analysis and computer-aided analyses of interview transcriptions and ethnography. Questions of ethics, field notes and write-up. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Mona A Atia
Lucy A. Jarosz
GEOG 426 Advanced Quantitative Methods (5) I&S, QSR Withers
Quantitative methods for empirical research in geography. Emphasis on statistical analysis; use of geographic data bases like the United States Census; understanding special issues and problems associated with geographically ordered data; verbal and graphic presentation in a computer environment. Recommended: GEOG 326. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Suzanne D Withers
GEOG 430 Contemporary Development Issues in Latin America (5) I&S Lawson
Contemporary development issues in Latin America, seen from a spatial perspective. Concept of development; competing theories as related to various Latin American states. Economic structural transformation, migration, urbanization, regional inequality, and related policies. Offered: A.
GEOG 431 Geography and Gender (5) I&S Brown, Jarosz
Examines theories and case studies across international, national, and regional scales in order to illustrate the impacts of social and economic processes upon the construction of gender in particular places. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Lucy A. Jarosz
Michael P. Brown
GEOG 432 Population and Urbanization Problems of Russia and the Newly Independent States (5) I&S ZumBrunnen
Historical background and evolution of Soviet/Russian population and urbanization processes and problems. Distinguishing demographic characteristics and recent trends in the growth and migration of rural and urban populations. Analysis of problems associated with ethnicity and nationality, regional-temporal labor demand and supply issues, and spatial-temporal well-being. Offered: odd years; Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Craig Zumbrunnen
GEOG 433 Resource Use and Management in Russia and the Newly Independent States (5) I&S ZumBrunnen
Geographic and historical background of the natural resource base of Russia and the Newly Independent States. Geographic and historical perspectives on Soviet natural resource use and management in theory and practice. Implications of the breakup of the USSR for natural resource use and management. Offered: odd years; W.
GEOG 435 Industrialization and Urbanization in China (5) I&S Chan
Examines the impacts of industrialization strategies adopted by the Peoples Republic of China on urbanization and rural-urban relations. Topics include: economic development strategies, industrial geography, rural industrialization, urban development patterns, migration, and urbanization policies. Recommended: GEOG 336. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Kam Wing Chan
GEOG 436 Social and Political Geographies of South Asia (5) I&S Jeffrey
Introduces the social and political geographies of South Asia through reference to agrarian change in India. Outlines key concepts related to the reproduction of inequality in the region, particularly theories of caste, class, gender, and religious communalism, and examines the mechanisms through which these inequalities are reproduced in South Asia. Offered: jointly with SISSA 436, Sp.
GEOG 438 Cities of East Asia: Geography and Development (5) I&S Chan
Examines urban development in East Asia from a geographic and comparative perspective focusing on issues in development, and the interaction of geography, history, politics, and economics. Major topics include economic development and urbanization; regions and urban systems; migration; urban social and spatial structures; globalization and governance. Offered: Sp.
GEOG 439 Gender, Race, and the Geography of Employment (5) I&S Ellis
Focuses on the geography of employment for men and women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds in American cities. Presents evidence on labor market inequality for different groups and explanations of these differences. Emphasizes the importance of a spatial perspective in understanding employment outcomes for women and minorities.
GEOG 440 Regional Analysis (5) I&S Beyers
Regional industrial structures and economic change. Application of shift-share, cohort, multiplier, input/output, and programming models to the analysis and projection of regional population and employment patterns, regional growth differentials, and regional impact analysis. Recommended: GEOG 207. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
William B Beyers
GEOG 443 Location and Movement Models (5) I&S Morrill
Application of models of optimum location and allocation; assignment, transportation, and spatial equilibrium; spatial interaction; geographic simulation; and spatial diffusion.
GEOG 445 Geography of Housing (5) I&S Withers
Focuses on the geography of housing, especially in the United States. Topics include: the American dream of home ownership; housing affordability and differential access to home ownership; homelessness; the history of public housing; hosing demography; residential mobility and neighborhood change, and discrimination in the housing market. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Jonathan Glick
Suzanne D Withers
GEOG 447 The Geography of Air Transportation (5) I&S
Geographic analysis of world air routes, passenger and cargo flows, and airport activities; consideration of physical, economic, political, and institutional determinants of routes and flows.
Instructor Course Description:
Douglas K Fleming
GEOG 448 Geography of Transportation (5) I&S
Circulation geography, principles of spatial interaction emphasizing commodity flow, the nature and distribution of rail and water transport, the role of transport in area development.
GEOG 449 Geography of Ocean Transportation (5) I&S
Geographic analysis of ocean trade routes, cargo and passenger flows, and port activities. Evaluation of the role of the transportation carrier in international trade.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher S. Fowler
GEOG 451 Cultural Geography of Latin America (5) I&S
Interdisciplinary senior seminar examining how physical and social geographies are culturally constructed and interconnected with subjectivities and power in Latin America. Topics include identity formation grounded in particular territories and the social constitution of space via an interplay of material and cultural forces. Offered: jointly with SISLA 451.
GEOG 458 Map Sources and Errors (5) I&S
Analysis and appraisal of source materials for maps, production constraints of mapping agencies, coverage and quality. Focus on errors inherent in maps and geographic information; metadata resources; judgment of fitness for specific applications. Prerequisite: 2.0 in GEOG 360. Offered: odd years; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Sung Soon Hwang
GEOG 461 Urban Geographic Information Systems (5) I&S Elwood
Use of geographic information systems to investigate urban/regional issues; focus on transportation, land-use and environmental issues; all urban change problems considered. GIS data processing strategies. Problem definition for GIS processing. Data collection, geocoding issues. Data structuring strategies. Prerequisite: 2.0 in GEOG 360; recommended: GEOG 277. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Timothy L. Nyerges
GEOG 462 Coastal Geographic Information Systems (5) QSR Elwood
Combines lectures about fundamental concepts in geographic information systems with hands-on computer lab assignments about coastal environment-society issues. Coastal feature data measurement, characterization, and movement related to the land-water and environment society dynamic. Prerequisite: GEOG 360; may not be taken if credit received in GEOG 460. Offered: A.
GEOG 464 GIS and Decision Support (5) I&S Nyerges
Combines lectures about geographic information systems and decision methods with hands-on computer assignments about regional and urban issues associated with such complex decisions processes as planning, improvement programming, and capital project implementation. Emphasizes land, transportation, and water resources decision problems. Prerequisite: GEOG 360. Offered: W.
GEOG 465 GIS Database and Programming (5) I&S
Explores GIS database models, database development, and database management systems used in GIS. Uses programming languages most applicable to GIS database work, particularly related to extending current commercial GIS such as ArcGIS. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: either 2.0 in GEOG 460, 2.0 in GEOG 461, or 2.0 in GEOG 462. Offered: odd years; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Timothy L. Nyerges
GEOG 466 Regional Economic Development (5) I&S Harrington
Provides a theoretical overview of sub-national, regional economic growth and structural change, including the roles of interregional interaction and international trade, technological change, social, and legal institutions. Emphasizes inter-regional disparities in the context of relatively wealthy countries. Explores the constraints and effectiveness of government (and other organizations') policy. Offered: W.
GEOG 469 Geographic Information Systems Workshop (5) I&S Elwood, Nyerges
Practical experience applying geographic information system (GIS) tools to analyze spatial data. Workshop format involves team-based work on GIS application project for community or university partners; diverse background encourages. Prerequisite: either 2.0 in GEOG 461 or 2.0 in GEOG 462. Offered: Sp.
GEOG 471 Methods of Resource Analysis (5) I&S ZumBrunnen
Economic and noneconomic criteria for resource analysis. Theory and methods of linear models of natural resource analysis. Includes materials-balance modeling, residuals management, constrained system optimization approaches to water quality analysis, land-use patterns and interregional energy use, and multiple objective planning techniques applied to natural resource problems. Recommended: GEOG 370.
Instructor Course Description:
Craig Zumbrunnen
GEOG 472 Ecoscapes: Nature, Culture, and Place (5) I&S
Relationship between nature, culture, and place as the heart of geographic inquiry. Examines how perceptions of nature are influenced by changing political-economic, cultural, and scientific practices. Uses cultural studies of ecological science as a primary method of analysis. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Douglas Mercer
GEOG 474 Geography and the Law (5) I&S Herbert
Examines the relationship between geography, law, and socio-legal analysis; reviews significant instances where law and geography intersect, such as the regulation of public space, the regulation of borders and mobility, and disputes over property and land use. Offered: jointly with LSJ 474.
GEOG 476 Women and the City (5) I&S England
Explores the reciprocal relations between gender relations, the layout of cities, and the activities of urban residents. Topics include: feminist theory and geography (women, gender, and the organization of space); women and urban poverty, housing and homelessness; gender roles and labor patterns; geographies of childcare; and women and urban politics. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 476.
Instructor Course Description:
Kim V.L. England
GEOG 477 Advanced Urban Geography (5) Brown
Geographic patterns and social processes within metropolitan areas. Canvases current research topics, methods, and theoretical debates in urban geography. Issues covered range across urban economic, political, and cultural geography. Recommended: GEOG 277. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael P. Brown
GEOG 478 Intraurban Spatial Patterns (5) I&S Mitchell
Geographic patterns and processes within metropolitan areas. Economic land-use patterns (commercial and industrial location), social land-use patterns (segregation, housing, and neighborhood change), urban political geography, analysis of urban infrastructure, and assessment of contemporary and future trends in urban development. Recommended: GEOG 277. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Jonathan Glick
Michael P. Brown
GEOG 479 Race, Ethnicity, and the American City (5) I&S Ellis
Explores America's cities as sites where ethnic and racial interaction have generated specific patterns of opportunity and disadvantage in housing and labor markets; how ethnic identities and racial formations are changed by living and working in cities, and questions of assimilation, multiculturalism, and America's ethno-racial future.
GEOG 480 Environmental Geography, Climate, and Health (5) I&S Mayer
Demonstrates and investigates how human-environment relations are expressed in the context of health and disease. Local and global examples emphasize the ways medical geography is situated at the intersection of the social, physical, and biological sciences. Examines interactions between individual health, public health, and social, biological, and physical phenomena. Prerequisite: either GEOG 280, GEOG 380, or GEOG 426. Offered: W.
GEOG 486 Problem Analysis in Urban Ecology (5) I&S/NW Alberti, Bradley, Hill, Marzluff, Ryan, ZumBrunnen
Investigates pressing local and regional issues in urban ecology and develops each into a researchable project proposal. Examines and evaluates how different disciplines study environmental issues, explores criteria for conducting and evaluating quality research, develops skills in problem formulation, and sharpens proposal writing skills. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 474/ESRM 486/URBDP 443; A.
GEOG 487 Applied Theory and Methods in Urban Ecology (5) I&S/NW Alberti, Bradley, Hill, Marzluff, Ryan, ZumBrunnen
Discusses broad perspectives in urban ecology and how to analyze data relevant to urban ecology problems. Students write objectives and methods for a selected urban ecology problem that critiques different methodological approaches and reviews/synthesizes literature. Prerequisite: either GEOG 486, CFR 474, or ENVIR 486. Offered: jointly with CFR 475/ENVIR 487; W.
GEOG 488 Research in Urban Ecology (5) I&S/NW Alberti, Bradley, Hill, Marzluff, Ryan, ZumBrunnen
Teams analyze, present, and begin to interpret data that is relevant to addressing issues in urban ecology. Write and orally present revised objectives and methods sections of interdisciplinary project and present results section. Prerequisite: either GEOG 487, CFR 475, or ENVIR 487. Offered jointly with CFR 476/ENVIR 488; Sp.
GEOG 490 Field Research: The Seattle Region (6) I&S Morrill
Field methods for contemporary urban research. Survey designs used in the analysis of transportation, land use, location of employment, shopping and housing, political fragmentation, and environmental degradation. Field report required, based on field work in the Seattle region.
Instructor Course Description:
Douglas Mercer
Richard L Morrill
Sarah Starkweather
GEOG 492 Library Research in Geography (3) I&S
Introduction to library research methods in geography. Review and assessment of geographical bibliographies and abstract services for monographs, periodicals, gazetteers, dictionaries, encyclopedias, government publications, and statistical sources. Credit/no credit only.
Instructor Course Description:
Anne E. Zald
GEOG 493 Assessing Geographic Learning (2) Withers
Enables graduating geography majors to articulate and assess their academic development and professional readiness by examining ways of representing geographic skills and capabilities. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
James W. Harrington
GEOG 494 Senior Essay (3) I&S
Supervised individual research and writing of major paper during senior year. Offered: AWSp.
GEOG 495 Special Topics (*, max. 15) I&S
Topics vary and are announced in the preceding quarter. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description:
Britt T. Yamamoto
Kim V.L. England
Jonathan D Mayer
Kurt E. Engelmann
GEOG 496 Internship in Geography (3/5, max. 12)
Internship in the public or private sector, supervised by a faculty member. Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSpS.
GEOG 497 Tutorial in Geography (1-5, max. 15) I&S Withers
Intensive directed study and tutoring. Literature reviews, formulations of project outlines and research designs, orientation in contemporary geographic thought and trends. Directed writing. Required for honors students. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Lucy A. Jarosz
Michael P. Brown
GEOG 498 Seminar in Economic Geography (5) I&S Harrington
Themes and debates within and between economic geography and regional science. . Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
James W. Harrington
GEOG 499 Special Studies (*, max. 15)
Supervised reading programs, undergraduate and graduate library and field research; special projects for undergraduate honors students. Offered: AWSpS.
GEOG 500 Contemporary Geographic Thought (4, max. 8)
GEOG 502 Professional Writing in Geography (*, max. 6)
GEOG 505 Research Seminar: China (5, max. 10) Chan
Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Kam Wing Chan
GEOG 507 Research Seminar: Canadian Problems (5, max. 10)
Consideration of the spatial dimensions of Canadian socioeconomic, cultural, and political development, with emphasis on resource potentials and relations with the United States, Japan, and other important trading partners. Prerequisite: GEOG 308 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with SISCA 507.
GEOG 512 History of Geographic Thought (5)
Historical development of modern geography. Emphasis on various philosophical and methodological debates in geography and the contexts from which they emerged. Investigates geography's foundational concepts and institutions; how they have responded to -- and influenced -- the world around them. Offered: A.
GEOG 513 Research Grant Workshop (5, max. 10)
Writing research proposals. Participants learn to identify and approach sponsors; practice the peer-review process; develop a competitive research proposal. Prerequisite: GEOG 512 or GEOG 515 or equivalent; training and experience with quantitative, qualitative, or cartographic analysis; an already-formulated research project.
GEOG 515 Evidence and Explanation in Geography (5) Sparke
Introduces the main strands of philosophical debate shaping the discipline of human geography, including description, prediction, explanation, abstraction, structuration, representation, and institutionalization. Focuses on ways "theories" from outside the discipline have shaped the questions and concerns of geographers, and the ways geography reworks such theories. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Matthew Sparke
GEOG 520 Research Seminar: Geographic Information Representation (5) Nyerges
Current issues in geographic information representation for geographic information systems (GIS). Includes representation for visualization, databases, and analyses. Prerequisite: one course in GIS.
Instructor Course Description:
Timothy L. Nyerges
GEOG 521 Research Seminar: Critical GIS (5) Elwood
Examines theoretical and methodological foundations and practices of critical GIS research; considers philosophical and practical considerations in mixed methods research that incorporates GIS and other spatial technologies. Offered: Sp.
GEOG 526 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Geography (5) Morrill, Withers
GEOG 531 Latin American Development Seminar (5, max. 10) Lawson
Evolution of development theory in Latin America from a spatial perspective. Theories and development issues, using case studies from Latin America. How geographers have conceptualized development problems and solutions. Prerequisite: GEOG 430.
GEOG 532 Rural Development Seminar (5, max. 10) Jarosz
Contemporary issues in international development theory related to regional and agrarian change, with emphasis on Africa.
GEOG 533 Research Seminar: Russia and the Newly Independent States (5, max. 10) ZumBrunnen
Instructor Course Description:
Craig Zumbrunnen
GEOG 536 Advanced Research Seminar on South Asian Geographies (5) Jeffrey
Examines geographies of social inequality in South Asia through reference to how space, place, and the environment are shaping practices of political struggle in the region. Considers how liberalization, democratization and religious communalization are changing the political geography of South Asia. Offered jointly with SISSA 536, Sp.
GEOG 540 Research Seminar: Industrial Geography (5, max. 10) Beyers
Offered: W.
GEOG 541 Research Seminar: Feminist Geographies (5) England
Explores major research themes in feminist geographies. Particular attention to the concept that gendered identities and spaces are discursively (re)produced. Emphasizes recent feminist scholarship that emphasizes difference, as well as the intersections between gender, "race," ethnicity, sexuality, age, nationality, class, and other social identities and divisions. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 541; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Kim V.L. England
GEOG 542 Research Seminar: Social and Population Geography (5, max. 10) Withers
GEOG 543 Research Seminar: Topics in Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race (5, max. 10) Ellis
Theoretical and empirical research issues in the geographies of immigration, ethnicity, and race. Specific focus changes annually.
GEOG 544 Event History Analysis of Social and Spatial Change (5) Withers
Examines life course research using event-history analysis with applications to the substantive areas of household dynamics, family formation and dissolution, marriage, cohabitation, and divorce, migration histories, residential mobility, and housing careers. Examines continuous- and discrete-time longitudinal models during practical laboratory sessions.
GEOG 553 Advanced Topics in Cultural Geography (5, max. 10) Mitchell
Focuses on important contemporary topics in cultural geography. Examines current theoretical debates in anthropology, sociology, geography, feminist criticism, and cultural studies as they relate to the landscape. Include critical questions surrounding issues of representation and ethnography. Designed to help student prepare for advanced fieldwork. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Katharyne Mitchell
GEOG 560 Principles of GIS Mapping (5)
Origins, development, and methods of cartographic mapping. Principles of data representation and map design for thematic mapping and spatial analysis. Introduction of principles of geographic information systems (GIS).
GEOG 561 Urban Geographic Information Systems (5) Elwood, Nyerges
Uses geographic information systems to investigate urban/regional issues, including transportation, land use, environment, emergency response, and public health. Spatial data acquisition, structuring, management, and analysis in a GIS environment; for urban planning, government, and research applications. Prerequisite: 2.0 in GEOG 560 or permission of instructor. Offered: W.
GEOG 566 Research Seminar on Regional Economic Geography (5) Harrington
Provides the opportunity to read and discuss key articles on the theory and study of subnational, regional economic development in industrial and "post-industrial" settings, to develop a research program, and to get feedback on research and writing.
GEOG 567 Research Seminar: Geography and Economic Development (5, max. 10) Harrington
Explores ways in which economic and social changes affect the well-being and development of subnational, regional economies. Explanatory roles of such factors as labor and labor institutions, governments, technical change, corporations, capital markets, information costs, and international trade in the process of global restructuring. Specific focus changes annually.
Instructor Course Description:
James W. Harrington
GEOG 569 Geographic Information Systems Workshop (5) Elwood, Nyerges
Practical experience applying geographic information system (GIS) tools to analyze spatial data. Workshop format involves team-based work on GIS application project for community or university partners; diverse background encourages. Prerequisite: either 2.0 in GEOG 561 or 2.0 in GEOG 562. Offered: Sp.
GEOG 570 Research Seminar: Natural Resources Analysis (3, max. 6) ZumBrunnen
GEOG 571 Research Seminar: Critical and Normative Ecologies (5)
Engages in an ecocritique of mainstream managerial environmentalisms by unearthing their ideological bases, and delves into the ethical underpinnings of ecological resistance struggles or green utopias such as ecofeminist, deep and social ecology, and environmental justice movements.
GEOG 572 Research Seminar: Queer Geographies (5) Brown
Explores the relationship between queer theory and critical human geography. Covers classic themes and debates, as well as new and emerging topics. Asks how geographic thought can be queered, as well as how queer studies can be augmented or critiqued with a geographical imagination. Offered: A.
GEOG 573 Urban Political Geography: Research Seminar (5) Brown
Covers both classic and contemporary theoretical debates and research on the relation between power, place, and the local scale. Considers both conventional sites (e.g., the local state) as well as new forms and locations of city politics (e.g., sexuality and the body).
Instructor Course Description:
Michael P. Brown
GEOG 574 Research Seminar: Geography, Law, and Social Control (5) Herbert
Explores relationship between the construction and enforcement of law and the landscape of lived experience; reviews major approaches in socio-legal analysis and seeks to augment these with insights from contemporary human geography research; explores various ways in which geographical variance shapes legal behavior. .
GEOG 575 Advanced Political Geography (5) Sparke
Provides resources for theorizing how politics shapes and is shaped by geographical relationships. Examines how politics are situated in complex material and discursive geographies that are partly reproduced through political negotiations. Examines interrelationships of contemporary capitalism with other complex systems of social and political power relations. Offered: jointly with SIS 575.
Instructor Course Description:
Matthew Sparke
GEOG 577 Research Seminar: Internal Spatial Structure of Cities (4, max. 8) Brown
Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael P. Brown
GEOG 578 Research Seminar: Theorizing the City (5) Ellis
Considers classic and contemporary writings in urban theory in the twentieth century, including social ecology (Chicago School), political economy, and contemporary theoretical debates in poststructuralism, deconstructionism, and culture as they relate to cities and space. Offered: W.
GEOG 580 Medical Geography (3) Mayer
Geography of disease, consideration in health systems planning. Analysis of distributions, diffusion models, migration studies. Application of distance, optimal location models to health systems planning; emergency medical services; distribution of health professionals; cultural variations in health behavior. Prerequisite: familiarity with social science research; health-related issues. Offered: jointly with HSERV 586; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Jonathan D Mayer
GEOG 581 Seminar in Medical Geography (5, max. 10) Mayer
Intensive research seminar dealing with new and promising research themes in medical geography and public health. Offered: jointly with HSERV 585; A.
Instructor Course Description:
Jonathan D Mayer
GEOG 588 Advanced Urban Ecology (5) Alberti, Bradley, Hill, Marzluff, Ryan, ZumBrunnen
Discussion of current and important theoretical and empirical papers in urban ecology. Students continue to research interdisciplinary urban ecology projects while developing publishable manuscripts and oral presentations. Offered: jointly with CFR 588; AWSp.
GEOG 597 Tutorial for Graduate Students (2)
Introduces beginning geography students to the main research agendas of the faculty; identifies the range of current discourse communities formed by current faculty and graduate students; establishes a process of mentoring and long-term planning for each new graduate student. Credit/no credit only. Offered: A.
GEOG 598 Geography Colloquium (1, max. 3)
Participation in, and critique of, student thesis and dissertation research, faculty research, and visitor contributions. Offered: AWSp.
GEOG 599 Effective Teaching of Geography (1)
Designed for the ongoing development of effective teaching and professional skills. Topics/activities include micro-teaching, communications and presentation skills; course organization, time management, personal and small group dynamics; design of geography curricula using simulations and computer-assisted instruction in the classroom, and fostering of creative thinking. Credit/no credit only. Offered: A.
GEOG 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
Offered: AWSpS.
GEOG 700 Master's Thesis (*)
Offered: AWSpS.
GEOG 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*)
Offered: AWSpS.
