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155 courses with the subject GEOG, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
GEOG 110The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth's Environmental Systems3
Emphasizes geographic patterns and interrelationships in energy, climate, terrain, and life. Develops integrative view of how atmospheric, hydrologic, geomorphic, and biotic processes create global patterns in the environment. Incorporates influence of human activities on earth. Class will help students understand the natural environment, both globally and in North Carolina. Honors version available.
GEOG 115Geospatial Technologies, Maps, and Society3
This course introduces students to maps and geospatial technologies as both everyday technical tools and powerful ways of shaping knowledge. The course examines how geographic information has been collected, represented, and used throughout history to shape what people see, understand, and value about the world. Students will develop an understanding of fundamentals of spatial data, explore methods of data collection such as GPS and remote sensing, apply principles of cartographic design and map interpretation, and analyze how mapping has been used to produce, reinforce, and contest power throughout history.
This Interdisciplinary course introduces tools and methods for learning about the "Latina/o American Experience." Using film, cultural products and technologies, it engages Latino/a and Latin American Studies, geography, and women's and gender studies to learn about, analyze, and reflect on the experience of peoples of Latin American ancestry across the Americas. Students may not receive credit for both LTAM 117I and IDST 117I.
This Interdisciplinary course introduces tools and methods for learning about the "Latina/o American Experience." Using film, cultural products and technologies, it engages Latino/a and Latin American Studies, geography, and women's and gender studies to learn about, analyze, and reflect on the experience of peoples of Latin American ancestry across the Americas. Students may not receive credit for both LTAM 117I and IDST 117I.
A survey of the geographic structure of human activity in major world regions and nations. Emphasizes current developments related to population, urbanization, and economic activity. (Core)
This course examines places and the connections between places to build critical understandings of the role of human geographies in global economic, political, social, and cultural systems. (Core)
This course explores the relationship between gender and place and introduces feminist approaches to key geographical concepts. We will study how places that we live in shape our gender identities and how gender relations affect our worlds. Topics include bodies, home, city, migration, development, nationalism, and war.
GEOG 130Development and Inequality: Global Perspectives3
An introduction to historical and contemporary ideas about practices and meanings of development. Students will explore "development" in a global landscape of poverty, power, and struggles over inequality.
In this course, students develop geographic concepts and skills and use them to navigate real-world social and environmental challenges. Co-taught by a physical and human geographer, the course provides students with essential building blocks for becoming active and engaged leaders and citizens in a rapidly changing world.
Survey of international social, political, and cultural patterns in selected societies of Africa, Asia, America, and Europe, stressing comparative analysis of conflicts and change in different historical contexts. LAC recitation sections offered in French, German, and Spanish.
GEOG 212Environmental Conservation and Global Change3
Survey of environmental change as driven by physical processes and human activity. Problem-solving methods are explored. Focus on issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, deforestation, extinction, pollution, wetland loss. This course will provide significant background in physical geography in the context of today's most pressing environmental concerns and with reference to the societal implications and management strategies. (No lab.) (Core)
This course will introduce students to data science with a focus on spatial (geographic) data, data that are referenced to a location on Earth's surface. Students will learn concepts and techniques to apply various facets of data science practice, including data collection, management, and integration, descriptive modeling, exploratory spatial data analysis, and communication via visualization and mapping. Real world examples and datasets spanning physical, social, and health sciences will be used throughout the course.
Health and disease are studied by analyzing the cultural/environmental interactions that lie behind world patterns of disease distribution, diffusion, and treatment, and the ways these are being altered by development. Previously offered as GEOG 445. (GHA)
Explores the evolution, patterns, and processes of urbanization and the development of cities. Emphasis on the power, politics, technology, and environmental forces shaping urban life. Topics may include housing and segregation, cities and climate change, economic development, transportation challenges, and the racialization of urban policy.
Approximately eight billion people live on the Earth. How did we get here? What have been the consequences for us and the planet? What will the future bring? To answer these questions, we will draw on population and human-environment geography and on an abundance of new data sources.
A study of environmental parameters, cultural preferences, technological developments, and spatial economic infrastructure that result in world patterns of food consumption, production, and distribution. (GHA)
This course focuses on the critical natural resource of forests that play crucial roles in the environment and society. The course explores forest spatial distribution, its change with time, and the factors affecting its distribution on the Earth's land surface. The course further examines the environmental goods and services forests provide, and how society benefits from them. The course also introduces the theories of sustainable forest management. The overall goal is to provide students with a holistic understanding of forests from both the environmental and societal perspectives (GHA).
Environmental justice is about social equity and its relationship to the environment. This course provides an introduction to the principles, history, and scholarship of environmental justice. It traces the origins of the movement in the US and globally and its relationship to environmentalism. Students will use case studies and engagement to become familiar with environmental justice concerns related to food systems, environmental health, climate change, and economic development.
Includes one-hour laboratory. Atmospheric processes including radiation, dynamics, and thermodynamics are emphasized. Circulations across a range of temporal and spatial scales are described. Links between environmental problems and the atmosphere are explored.
A study of selected past geographies of the United States with emphasis on the significant geographic changes in population, cultural, and economic conditions through time. Previously offered as FOLK/GEOG 454. (GHA)
This survey course examines political, cultural, and biophysical dimensions of human- environment relations across the ecologically diverse and historically rich region of Latin America. It draws on multiple data sources, perspectives, and media to explore sub-regions and their biocultural histories, including the Caribbean, Andes, Amazon, Central and North America, and their relationship with the United States.
A survey of the cultural and physical landscapes of the United States and Canada. Emphasis on landscape evolution, present distributions, and interactions between people and their environment. (Regional)
A survey of the cultural, economic, and physical diversity of North Carolina. Emphasizes regional patterns, historical changes, and the appearance of the landscape. (Regional)
This course explores the biogeography of Siberia and gives students practical training on how to do field work in field ecology and physical geography.
GEOG 266Society and Environment in Southeast Asia3
This survey integrates sociological, biophysical, and geographical elements to examine interactions of population and environment across the ecologically-diverse and historically-rich region of Southeast Asia. Draws on multiple data sources, perspectives, and media to explore Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma/Myanmar, the Philippines, and neighboring countries.
Introduces students to the geography of South Asia, including an overview of the physical environment, cultural practices, and economic development. Emphasizes the political geography of South Asia and political and social processes such as nationalism and colonialism that have played a formative role in the region.
Africa is a vast continent with extraordinary biodiversity, cultural diversity, and history. But despite its many historic and contemporary contributions to the modern world, Africa is often represented as needing civilization, development, economic growth, charity, and education. This course investigates Africa's place in the global geopolitical imagination. With an emphasis on human geography, we analyze various forms of media (including maps, films, songs) to investigate the relationship between representation and the sociopolitical construction of place.
GEOG 269Human-Environment Interactions in the Galapagos Islands3
The Social and ecological implications of resource conservation and economic development in a World Heritage Site are examined in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador.
This course provides a systematic introduction to China as an emerging political and economic power. From a geographic perspective, this course addresses uneven human and physical landscapes, the historical evolution and current status of the natural environment, economic development, and human well being.
GEOG 281Ethnographies of Globalization: From 'Culture' to Decolonization3
This course will provide lower level undergraduate students with a survey of ethnographic research in geography and related fields. We will examine studies from work, labor, and gender, to indigenous youth and decolonization. Previously offered as GEOG 481.
This course is for students selected as Undergraduate Learning Assistants (ULAs) for geography and environment courses during the semester they serve as ULAs. This course will provide support and structure to make them effective in their role, including training in pedagogy and University policies; ongoing mentorship and supervision; and opportunities for reflection, assessment, and evaluation. May not count toward the Geography and Environment major or minor. Permission required and a grade of B or higher in the course taught.
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GEOG
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3
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3
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Repeatable
May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics; 9 total credits.
This course explores critical questions of sustenance, which are often overlooked in ''sustainability'' discourse: How do people sustain themselves in North America? Against what pressures? How does the geography and history of the land shape cultural, social, political, and economic practices of sustenance? And, in contexts of oppression, dispossession, and discrimination, how do acts of sustenance intersect or conflict with larger cultural, social, economic, and political debates about ''sustainability''?
Permission of the instructor. Special reading and research in geography under the supervision of a selected instructor. Course may not be taken more than twice.
This course integrates agricultural, ecological, and design principles to enhance environmental health. In it we focus on three primary things: We study the histories and methods of a diverse range of agricultural practices--from wild gardening and permaculture to high intensity crop production. We also develop increased familiarity, or "literacy," with natural systems including water ways, plant and forest systems, and their interconnectedness in the natural world. Third, through a semester-long creative project, we learn practical design skills for applying agroecological solutions to improve environmental health and resilience in our local context.
The objective of Freedom Farming is to understand--in theory and in practice--the relationship between farming, health, and society. To this end we will investigate the history of agriculture's place in various liberation movements; we will also explore contemporary iterations of freedom farming, including urban food forests, guerilla gardening, and eco-villages. In addition to historic and theoretical engagement with freedom farming, we will grow various edible, medicinal, and pollinator-friendly plants. Course previously offered as GEOG 293.
Examines the role of the interactions of cultures, environments, and human diseases in the quest for sustainable agriculture by examining the cultural ecology of agriculture systems and their human diseases. Previously offered as GEOG 434. (GHA)
GEOG 341Hydrology, Ecology, and Sustainability of the Humid Tropics3
The Tropics have some of the largest river flows in the world. Three billion people live in humid tropical regions, yet many of them lack adequate water supply. This course focuses on the water cycle of tropical regions and the interactions between hydrology and ecology with an emphasis on sustainability.
A concept- and data-driven course that introduces students to geographic data and core geographic concepts. Students will interpret and evaluate spatial datasets from a variety of sources (including their acquisition, limitations, and ethical considerations), understand how geographic data is structured and represented, and apply foundational techniques in Geographic Information Science (cartography and geovisualization, remote sensing, and geographic information systems).
This course provides an introduction to the application of statistical methods to geographic problems and to statistical packages in their solution. Attention given to spatial data analysis and sampling methods.
Introduces geographic research methods and develops skills to conduct independent research. Themes include spatial analysis, knowledge production, methodology, theory and evidence, and principles of informed argument. Students gain experience with multiple methods applicable to the study of diverse topics.
Principles of analysis of the atmosphere are applied to the analysis of environmental phenomena. The link between the atmosphere and other environmental compartments is explored through environmental case studies.
Uses systems theory and computer models to understand ecosystem energy and matter flows, such as energy flow in food webs, terrestrial ecosystem evapotranspiration and productivity, related to climate, vegetation, soils, and hydrology across a range of spatial and temporal scales.
An analysis of synoptic weather patterns and the processes responsible for them. Climatological aspects of these weather patterns are emphasized. (EES)
An investigation of the scientific basis of climate change (past, present, and future), the current state of knowledge concerning future projections, and the implications of climate change for society and the environment.
This hands-on course will set you on a path towards making a positive difference in the world through effective communication of ideas that are important to you. Emphasis will be on practical skills in listening, clarifying your message, having a narrative focus, creating effective graphics, giving engaging oral and poster presentations, social media use, communication with journalists, operating in the judicial and political arenas, and community outreach and public talks.
GEOG 416Applied Climatology: The Impacts of Climate and Weather on Environmental and Social Systems3
Applied climatology involves the interdisciplinary application of climate data and techniques to solve a wide range of societal and environmental problems. This projects-based course investigates how climate impacts a range of sectors, including water resources, urban environments, ecosystems, and human health.
Involves evaluation of landscapes by examining nature and biophysical elements influencing landscape form and function. Course emphasizes data collection, analysis, and interpretation using GIS and field methods. (EES)
GEOG 420Global Perspectives on People and Forests: Society, Conservation, and Justice3
This course explores the intertwined history of people and forests around the world, examining how they have changed over time and how different communities have used, governed, and understood them. We pay special attention to Indigenous stewardship, racialized forest relations, and conservation, as well as the ways societies have established policies governing forests. Students will learn how forest history provides a powerful lens for understanding today's environmental challenges, revealing the links between nature, culture, and production across local and global contexts.
A study of the spatial components of current social problems, such as poverty, race relations, environmental deterioration and pollution, and crime. (GHA)
This course considers the theoretical and empirical dimensions of religion from a geographical perspective. The course introduces the key theories linking space, place, and religion and helps students apply these new theoretical tools to examine some of the pressing issues in the contemporary study of religion.
GEOG 428Global Cities: Space, Power, and Identity in the Built Environment3
This course addresses questions of power, politics, and identity in the urban environment, with a focus on the emergence of key selected global cities and the processes that both created them historically and which are currently transforming them locally and globally.
An interdisciplinary exploration of urban social problems, bridging the literature on urban geography with that on urban politics. Students will be required to complete 30 hours of service for an organization that works on an urban social issue.
GEOG 430Global Migrations, Local Impacts: Urbanization and Migration in the United States3
This course explores the relationship between patterns of urban development in the United States and migration, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
This advanced course brings geographical perspectives on place, space, scale, and environmental change to the study of environmental justice. In lectures, texts, and research projects, students examine environmental concerns as they intersect with racial, economic and political differences. Topics include environmental policy processes, environmental justice movements, environmental health risks, conservation, urban environments, and the role of science in environmental politics and justice. (GHA)
GEOG 436Governance, Institutions, and Global Environmental Change3
Interdisciplinary course for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Focuses on multiscale environmental issues and related social, institutional, governance, and policy challenges. Examines key concepts and theories involving global environmental change and problem-solving efforts.
How does climate change affect vulnerable human populations? We will attempt to answer a shared research question on this topic by reading the peer-reviewed literature and by conducting a semester-long data analysis project incorporating social and climate data from around the world. This is a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE).
This course will focus on the processes of soil formation, erosion, and landform evolution with an emphasis on the interaction of geomorphic processes with surface hydrology and ecosystems. (EES) Course previously offered as GEOL 502.
Introduction to hydrologic and geomorphic processes in watersheds as applied to problems in flood analysis, water quality, and interactions of hydrology and environmental sciences. Drainage networks, nested catchments, and distribution and controls of precipitation, evaporation, runoff, and groundwater flow. Includes local field trips. (EES)
Introduction to landforms and processes associated with flowing water at the earth's surface. Hydrology, sedimentology, and theories of channel formation and drainage basin evolution. (ESS)
Rivers and streams are not simply passive transporters of terrestrial products, but dynamic, three-dimensional systems that transform and transport, thereby sustaining myriad ecosystem functions and services. The abiotic and biotic components of rivers interact across landscapes via delivery from watersheds, exchange between surface and groundwater, the movement of biota, nutrients, gases, and heat, and other components. Thus, the study of rivers necessitates considering their 3-dimensional connections across landscapes. This course will introduce stream, river, and floodplain: (1) hydrology and geomorphology; (2) fundamental biogeochemistry and measurement techniques; (3) ecology including food webs and community assemblages across landscapes.
This course is concerned with the application of biogeographical principles and techniques to the study of natural and human-modified landscapes. It includes local and extraregional case studies. (EES)
This course examines the role that geography plays in shaping how people interact with the health care system. Topics include health care delivery system types, facility and personnel distributions, access to care, health care utilization, as well as GIS, spatial analysis, and decision support systems.
GEOG 447IGender, Space, and Place in the Middle East3
Examines gender, space, and place relationships in the modern Middle East. Investigates shifting gender geographies of colonialism, nationalism, modernization, and globalization in this region. (GHA)
GEOG 448Transnational Geographies of Muslim Societies3
Examines modern Muslim geographies that are created by transnational flows, connections, and imaginaries that cross national and regional boundaries across the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and beyond.
GEOG 451Population, Development, and the Environment3
Introduction to contemporary and historical changes in human population, international development, and the global environment and how these processes interact, drawing on population geography as an organizing framework. Previously offered as GEOG 450.
GEOG 452Mobile Geographies: The Political Economy of Migration3
This course explores the contemporary experience of migrants. Various theoretical approaches are introduced, with the emphasis on a political-economic approach. (GHA)
The geography of politics is explored at the global, the nation-state, and the local scale in separate course units, but the interconnections between these geographical scales are emphasized throughout. (GHA)
This course focuses on cartographic and visualization concepts and techniques to convey spatial information. Emphasizing the interpretation and production of both static and interactive maps, the course examines how map design impacts the way maps are perceived and used. Students will explore the cognitive and semiotic processes through which we interpret visual information, as well as core components of map design, including visual hierarchy, color, typography, and layout. Students will critique and design basic cartographic products such as dot, choropleth, contour, and proportional symbol maps using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
This course investigates the challenges, tools and techniques, and important applications of visualizing and analyzing geographic data that is temporally dynamic. We tackle technical challenges in obtaining, analyzing, and visualizing dynamic processes in space though maps, and discuss the consequences of our choices in how to re/present these processes. Students will produce original geovisualizations of dynamic data related to their field. Recommended preparation: experience with GIS software (GEOG 370 or GEOG 491).
GEOG 457Rural Latin America: Agriculture, Environment, and Natural Resources3
This course explores a systems and cultural-ecological view of agriculture, environment, natural resource, and rural development issues in Latin America. It serves as a complement to GEOG 458 Urban Latin America. (Regional) Honors version available.
GEOG 458Urban Latin America: Politics, Economy, and Society3
This course examines urban social issues in contemporary Latin America. Cities and their residents will be considered in relation to each other and to North American examples. (Regional)
GEOG 459Law, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Environmental Activism in Latin America3
This course explores the contradictions of Indigenous people's views on land and the environment and the existing legal frameworks addressing Indigenous peoples land rights across Latin America, focusing on how these contradictions are often shaped by global economic interests. The course highlights the ways in which Indigenous groups resist and adapt to environmental challenges exacerbated by stated sponsored extractive industries usually operating within the framework of legal apparatuses to which indigenous peoples respond to employing a range of strategies from legal battles to grassroots activism and quotidian practices.
GEOG 464Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and the Geographies of Pan-Europe3
A survey by topic and country of Europe west of Russia. Those features that make Europe a distinct and important region today are emphasized. (Regional)
While much attention has been given to Europe's "green" cities and the region's examples of sustainable development, less attention has been given to the ways in which the uneven distributions of environmental degradation have social and spatial ramifications within and beyond the region. This course will provide an overview of environmental justice in urban Europe to consider the key concepts, topics, debates, and trends shaping people and places there.
Examines foundational concepts and methods and their relevance for understanding nature-society relationships. Discussions on environmental change and conflict and how nature is bound up with relations of power and constructions of identity.
GEOG 477Introduction to Remote Sensing of the Environment3
Covers fundamental theory and mechanics of remote sensing, related theoretical aspects of radiation and the environment, and remote-sensing applications relating to terrestrial, atmospheric, and marine environments. Hands-on experience for application and information extraction from satellite-based imagery through biweekly laboratory assignments. Prepares students for GEOG 577. (GISc)
If freedom is a place (as Ruth Wilson Gilmore maintains), then how do we build freedom? This course pursues this question - in theory and practice - from Black and indigenous perspectives. We engage decolonial critiques of western modernity, which raise the question of how systems of oppression came to be as they are. Then we examine historic and ongoing examples of Black and indigenous liberation including practices of anticolonial place making and Mapping Decolonial Futures.
GEOG 491Principles of Geographic Information Systems3
A methods-driven course that builds on foundational GIScience knowledge to teach students how to design, execute, and evaluate advanced spatial analyses within a desktop Geographic Information System environment. The course emphasizes analytical reasoning, workflow development, and modeling, and independent project design for spatial analysis.
The premise of this course is that the possibilities articulated by radical Black intellectuals and artists in Africa and its diaspora are key to dismantling systems of oppression. It includes theories of unfreedoms derived from experiences of oppression-colonization, slavery, mass incarceration, racial inequity. It also examines radical Black responses to unfreedoms through practices of mental (de)colonization and moral courage, epistemology and pedagogy, human-earth relationships and environmental justice.
Open to junior and senior geography majors. Geography internships combine substantive geographic work experience with an academic project designed to integrate theory and practice. Field work is included.
This course is on understanding the physical geography of mountain environments and the processes that have created them, shaped them, and sustained them. Honors version available.
Students will learn to apply numerous spatial data science skills and tools to solve real-world problems and model geographic phenomena. Material will include theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of the methods and techniques, as well as hands on application in R. Topics include R as a GIS, spatial neighborhoods, spatial autocorrelation, regression, clustering, interpolation, and geovisualization. Real world examples and data spanning physical, social, and health sciences are used throughout the course to promote contextual learning.
GEOG 52First-Year Seminar: Political Ecology of Health and Disease3
This course examines the intersection of political, economic, social, and environmental systems that shape health and disease across spatial and temporal scales. A political ecological framework is used to examine such topics as how political forces and economic interests helped shape the HIV/AIDS and malaria pandemics in Africa and beyond. Honors version available.
Explores theory and application of geographic information systems (GIS) for public health. The course includes an overview of the principles of GIS in public health and practical experience in its use. (GISci)
This course explores how neighborhood context influences the health of the populations living in them. It includes a survey of neighborhoods and health theory and empirical examples. (GHA)
This course teaches qualitative methods in geography for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. We will cover interviews, focus groups, visual, and other methodologies. We will also discuss modes of analysis, coding, and writing up qualitative research for publication.
GEOG 544Geographic Information Systems for Impact Evaluation and Health Studies3
Examines the theory and application of geographic information systems (GIS) for impact evaluation for intervention studies. The course will focus especially on health and economic interventions in the developing world. The course includes an overview of the principles of GIS in impact evaluation and practical experience in its use.
GEOG 545Landback Abolition Project: Place-based Black and Indigenous Geographies3
This is a hands-on research based course focused on learning key geographic concepts through place-based education at the site of the university itself. We will learn approaches to geography based in Indigenous, Black, and Anticolonial Geographies, and develop theoretical frameworks, policy approaches, and public-facing research embedded in this place that we share. This will include archival research, qualitative and quantitative methods such as interviews and surveys, as well as mapping.
GEOG 55First-Year Seminar: Landscape in Science and Art3
Explores viewing landscape from the perspective of science and of art, and investigates how an integration of both leads to a better understanding and appreciation of a landscape.
This course presents cartographic techniques for better map design, with a focus on mapping the geographies of the Global South. Modern techniques and software will be used for developing and demonstrating proficiency in what are considered standard map design techniques, and we will also study examples from places and map makers outside of dominant cartographic traditions, and maps meant for actors and audiences in the Global South.
GEOG 56First-Year Seminar: Local Places in a Globalizing World3
An examination of the relationship between globalization and localization in order to think about how we, as individuals and groups, can make a difference in the world.
GEOG 567Geospatial Data Analysis with Google Earth Engine3
This course teaches students key concepts and skills for geospatial data analysis using the rich geospatial data resources, tools, and cloud computing facility on Google Earth Engine for environmental monitoring, mapping, modeling, and visualization. The course will enable students to pursue geospatial data analysis ranging from local to global scales to extract critical information for scientific understanding of the environment and for making science-based policies to address the environmental challenges we face today.
This course explores the capabilities of geographic information systems for spatial analysis and modeling. Emphasis is placed on how geographic information analysis is used within scientific research; specifically, students will learn to appropriately choose and interpret geographic methods to answer scientific research questions. Students will complete a rigorous research project of their own choosing and will get experience reviewing others' work and revising their own work. Weekly activities will include both conceptual and hand-on material.
GEOG 58First-Year Seminar: Making Myth-Leading Memories: Landscapes of Remembrance3
This course considers memorial landscapes created to reinforce values symbolized by the person, group, or event memorialized. It looks at how disagreements and cultural changes affect memorial landscape interpretation.
This course provides a conceptual and applied introduction to taking geospatial analyses beyond the desktop when data and workloads grow. This course introduces the core ideas for scaling up spatial analysis: data storage architectures, spatial indexing and partitioning, and distributed execution on local, cluster, and cloud platforms. Using a diverse set of open-access datasets, students will learn the fundamentals of working with "large" and "big" data and extend familiar geospatial analysis techniques from desktop software to more scalable environments.
GEOG 59First-Year Seminar: Space, Identity, and Power in the Middle East3
This seminar examines the role traditional and modern spaces play in representations of the Middle East and how Middle Easterners engage these contested spaces to construct their cultural and political identities.
GEOG 591Applied Issues in Geographic Information Systems3
Applied issues in the use of geographic information systems in terrain analysis, medical geography, biophysical analysis, and population geography. (GISci)
GEOG 592Geographic Information Science Programming3
This course will teach students the elements of GISci software development using major GIS platforms. Students will modularly build a series of applications through the term, culminating in an integrated GIS applications program.
GEOG 594Global Positioning Systems and Applications3
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) fundamental theory, application design, post processing, integration of GPS data into GIS and GPS application examples (such as public health, business, etc.) will be introduced.
This course focuses on modeling the terrestrial forest ecosystems processes, including population dynamics, energy, water, nutrients, and carbon flow through the ecosystem. (GISci)
GIS and Systems Modeling are theory and methodology that use GIS, quantitative models, and systems analysis to describe processes, interactions, and feedbacks in complex systems. Simulation experiments of systems models can be used as a "laboratory" to answer many "what if" questions, which can be used for the evaluation of policies and scenarios.
GEOG 60First-Year Seminar: Health Care Inequalities3
Explores the social and spatial inequalities in health care access and use and their impacts on health. A variety of topics are examined, including health-related policies, beliefs about health and health care, modern medical practices, and health care costs.
GEOG 61First-Year Seminar: Climate Change in the American Southeast3
Seminar participants, working in small groups, will run climate models and investigate current climate trends, combining the results to create scenarios of future climate for the southeast United States.
GEOG 62First-Year Seminar: The Culture of Technology3
This first-year seminar uses the lens of culture to explore systems of meaning and values, and relations of social power, that are invested in technologies.
GEOG 63First-Year Seminar: The Problem with Nature and Its Preservation3
Alternative conceptualizations of nature in Western culture and how these meanings help create the landscapes in which we live and allow us to evaluate the implications of efforts to preserve nature. Honors version available.
Explores modern Vietnam and situates the American war in broader spatial and historical context. Draws on fact, fiction, and visual media to introduce a fascinating place, rich in history, and to animate a geographic imagination students can take anywhere.
GEOG 65First-Year Seminar: Climate Change in the Media3
Examines the scientific basis of climate change and how the established science is presented, distorted, and debated in the public sphere. Explores how a variety of media sources can be used to effectively communicate about climate change to people with different perspectives. Honors version available.
Are technological choices open to democratic participation? Through a novel research workshop format, this graduate and undergraduate course explores political and geographical dimensions of technological change around key environmental issues--energy, water, and waste.
GEOG 67First-Year Seminar: Politics of Everyday Life3
Seminar examines the ways that politics, especially contests over territory, are part of our day-to-day life. We will explore a range of cases, from immigration policy and rhetoric in the United States, to popular representations of geopolitics in film, to the politics of family planning in India.
GEOG 68First-Year Seminar: Freshwaters in the Anthropocene3
Freshwaters sustain myriad ecosystem services by providing drinking water, irrigation, inland fisheries, transportation, recreational opportunities, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity. At the same time, both water quality and quantity are impacted by land use, water abstraction, damming, contamination, and climate change. This seminar will focus (1) on understanding how these anthropogenic pressures affect freshwater ecosystems differently across ecoregions, and (2) how management, legislative, and social initiatives have adapted or developed solutions.
This course delves into the interplay between human communities and the vital forest ecosystems upon which they rely. Through our collective exploration, we will deepen our understanding of the far-reaching impacts of forests on virtually every facet of our daily lives. In addition to forests of the world, we will also explore art about trees as well as the forests that make our campus unique with field visits to the Coker Arboretum. First-year students only.
A systematic study of the approaches, key concepts, and methods of geography, emphasizing the application of these approaches through hands-on independent research designed and implemented by the students. (Core)
Introduction to the theory and practice of geographic research. The range of methods available for problem identification and solution are considered through development of specific research proposals.
Seminar introduces new students to current geographic sub-disciplines, faculty research interests and areas of expertise within the Department, and university resources. In this required core course in Geography's graduate curriculum, students also engage with issues of communication, professionalization, and career development in Geography and related fields.
This is an introductory course in demographic research methods. Common methods for measuring demographic indicators (fertility, mortality, migration, population growth, and marriage) will be presented.
Examination of the major processes controlling environmental cycling of material and energy at the landscape level, and development of a quantitative understanding of the physical and ecosystem processes responsible for landscape pattern and evolution.
GEOG 711Advanced Physical Geography - Hydroclimatology and Bioclimatology3
Examination of topics focused on the atmospheric and the vegetation and land surface parts of the hydrologic cycle at the micro to global spatial scale and short-term to millennial temporal scale.
GEOG 715715 Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics and Human-Environment Interaction3
Examination of topics that integrate social, natural, and spatial sciences within the context of human-environment interactions, with an emphasis on landuse/landcover dynamics and spatial digital technologies for linking landscape form and function.
This course examines the foundations and current literature on cultural and political ecology. Focus is given to the appropriation of "Nature," degradation and deforestation, conservation, famine, postcolonial peasants, resistance, Indigeneit, and property, land distribution, and governmentality.
This course introduces students to spatial analysis techniques involving points, lines, areas, surfaces, and non-metric spaces, as well as programming basic geographic models on microcomputers.
GEOG 803Research Seminar in Nature-Society Studies and Human-Environment Interactions3
An in-depth seminar devoted to contemporary faculty research topics in nature-society studies and human-environment interactions. Topics and instructors vary.
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GEOG
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Repeatable
May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics.
GEOG 805Research Seminar in International Area Studies, Development, and Globalization3
An in-depth seminar devoted to contemporary faculty research topics in international area studies, development, and globalization. Topics and instructors vary.
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GEOG
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Credits
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course
Repeatable
May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics.
GEOG 88Climate Wayfinding: Finding Direction in An Age of Climate Crisis3
Climate Wayfinding is intended as a growing opportunity for students who seek clarity, courage, and community as they navigate life in an age of profound and overwhelming environmental change. Through diverse modes of exploration, students will discern and enliven their unique relationship with climate change and develop key capacities for personal resilience and climate engagement. This will include exploration of science, solutions, emotional and psychological responses to climate change, and activism.
