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department Geography (X) |
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Geographic analysis of ocean trade routes, cargo and passenger flows, and port activities. Evaluation of the role of the transportation carrier in international trade.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Supervised individual research and writing of major paper during senior year. Offered: AWSp.
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Topics vary and are announced in the preceding quarter. Offered: AWSpS.
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Internship in the public or private sector, supervised by a faculty member. Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSpS.
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Supervised reading programs, undergraduate and graduate library and field research; special projects for undergraduate honors students. Offered: AWSpS.
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