| source University of Texas at Austin (43) |
level Graduate (X) |
department Geography (X) |
Collection of data, formulation of meaningful categories of regions, development of hypotheses of cause-and-effect relations through direct contact with the phenomena and processes in the area where a problem is located. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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Impact of local religious lore and practice on cultural landscapes, conservation, and sense of place; cultural and environmental consequences of the spatial expansion of world religions; other themes in the geography of religion, including civil religion and environmental theology. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Same as Latin American Studies 388 (Topic 4: Environment and Health in Latin America ). Issues related to health, health care, and development in Latin America and the Caribbean, considered with the recognition that health depends on the interactions of social, economic, and political factors as well as on health care services. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Geography of West Texas and New Mexico; late Cenozoic basalt flows, volcanic ashes, sand sheets, alluvium, paleolake deposits, glacial moraines, colluvium, and soils; integration of landforms and landscape ecology. Includes a ten-day field trip. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester, with additional field hours to be arranged. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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Designed to provide experience in field description of sediments and soils in Central Texas; second half of course focuses on field interpretation of geomorphology and landscape evolution using sedimentary deposits and soils. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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Topics include Latin America, Anglo-America, Texas, boundaries, settlement origins and patterns, origins of agriculture. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in geography or a related social science, and consent of instructor.
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Same as Middle Eastern Studies 381 (Topic 31: Mapping the Middle East ). Ways in which the Middle East is and has been represented cartographically. Cartographic representations of the region during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the nature and evolution of a distinctive Islamic cartographic tradition; the role and use of maps during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries both in the extension of colonialism and in the creation of modern states; and the contemporary use, applications, and implications of geographic information systems in organizing and representing data spatially. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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Same as Anthropology 382N. Long-term ecology as reconstructed from settlement and land-use histories. Empirical case studies in environmental history from the Mediterranean region, the Near East, and Mesoamerica. Applications to degradation, desertification, sustainability, and global change. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356 (Topic: Geo-Archaeology ), 356C, 382K. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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A third- and fourth-world perspective on the geographic implications of international development; emphasis on local and global environmental effects. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in geography or a related social science.
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The effect of landcover change on drainage basin processes, considered from a geomorphological perspective over varying temporal and spatial scales. Topics may include watershed management, stream channel restoration, fluvial geomorphic processes, and Geographic Information Systems applications to drainage basin processes. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with additional field hours to be arranged. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in geography or a related social science, and consent of instructor.
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Changing physical and biotic landscapes on Ice Age earth during the past two million years. Reconstruction of Quaternary geomorphic landscapes based on principles and applications of geochronology and paleoclimatology. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Geography 335C and 385C may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Issues and new developments in regional and global aspects of Quaternary climates, biota, prehistory, and landscape evolution. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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An introduction to the history of development theory, economic globalization, studies in the history of science, issues of social justice, and critical studies of environmental history. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Geography 387C and 396T (Topic: Political Ecology ) may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Development of the conservation movement, problems of resource misuse, conservation practices, state and national conservation policies, nature and distribution of natural resources. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in geography or a related social science, and consent of instructor.
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Same as Latin American Studies 388 (Topic 2: Indigenous Maps, Architecture, and Enculturation of Colonial Mexico ). The encounter of Spanish and indigenous cultures and ecologies; regional diversity of agricultural, urban, and economic development from 1521 to 1810; ethnic transformation and new socioeconomic configurations. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Analysis of human-environment interactions by employing the concepts of place, home, and dwelling. Discussion of humanistic and postmodern geographical research. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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The creation, transformation, and meaning of landscapes within different societies through time. Iconographical analysis of the built environment; impress of belief and ideology on landscape; analysis of nationalistic and authoritarian landscapes; problems of defining and mapping ethnicity; civilizational process and behavior; institutional vandalism, place annihilation, and the destruction and effacement of landscape symbols; cultural and geographical foundations and unintended consequences of global economic integration. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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Examines the history, philosophy, and ontology of geography, including its various subfields. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Required of all first-year graduate students in geography. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in geography, or graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.
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Builds on topics explored in Geography 390K by focusing on epistemology and research in the field of geography. Students develop plans for research and write a research proposal. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Required of all first-year graduate students in geography. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and Geography 390K.
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Assessment of various types of nonmechanized agriculture with regard to environmental factors and management techniques. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Geography 339K and 390S may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
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An overview of climate, vegetation, soil, and landform processes. Principles and methodology of physical geography. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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The application of multivariate data analytic techniques including regression, factor, canonical, and discriminatory analysis of spatial problems. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Geography 360L or a basic course in inferential statistics.
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Designed to train students to write competitive and successful applications for extramural grants and fellowships. One lecture hour a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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Examines issues that involve the conservation and sustainable use of plants, animals, and ecosystems. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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