44 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.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Investigates the world from a spatial perspective to understand the complexity of places and the dynamic relationship between peoples and the world they inhabit. Open to first-years and sophomores.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Causes and effects of major environmental changes induced by humans, challenges to our future well-being, and opportunities for future sustainability. Prerequisite: open to first-year students only. Crosslisted as ENST 113.
Topics course,Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableTopics related to current events/issues in Geography.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduction to the use of Geographical Information Systems to collect, structure, and display large or complex spatial data sets, using examples from human and physical geography.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduction to satellite data acquisition, processing and extraction of information to understand complex environmental, geological and biological phenomena as well as the interactions between these phenomena.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines maps as markers of environmental history. Focusing on the North Atlantic and North America from the seventeenth century onward, the course will emphasize critical analysis of visual artifacts, the politics of cartography, and maps as records of our changing ideas about and impact on the natural world. Crosslisted as ENST 214 and HIST 215.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course takes a critical, spatial approach to understanding cities. Urban geography attends to cities as processes, with a focus on the global forces that drive urbanization, development, urbanism and planning. The course explores the forces that create cities and cities as a force with an attention on urban legacies, urban inequality, segregation, and marginalization.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This course examines the various experiences, perspectives and expressions of Latinas in the United States, which vary according to gender, sexuality, race, citizenship, region and language. Crosslisted as LAMS 218 and WMST 218.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Inquiry into local and global changes in economic activity, location and spatial organization, especially focusing on implications for the well-being of people in particular places. Crosslisted as ECON 209.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Considers political processes from a geographical perspective across a range of scales, in particular analyzing the geographical arguments which shape international political relations. Crosslisted as IREL 211.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Explores the main approaches to planning theory and their environmental applications. Considers how environmental planning can promote the socio-ecological health and sustainability of democratic communities. Crosslisted as ENST 215.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the politics of contemporary nation state borders, issues of territory, sovereignty, mobility, migration, identity, citizenship, statelessness, and focuses on borders at other scales. Crosslisted as IREL 216.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Role of culture in shaping places. How cultures are geographically expressed, and how geography is a basic element in the constitution of cultures. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3In this course, we will build a critical understanding of the nature and processes of development in the global south countries while exploring the role of colonialism, imperialism and capitalism. Includes topics such as global political-economic change, population growth, human capital, microfinance, food politics and gender inequality. Crosslisted as ECON 217.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3A general science course in human ecology, to demonstrate the ways humans continue to adapt to their environment through biological, cultural, scientific, symbolic, political, and technical means. Crosslisted as ENST 234.
Lecture hours:3Understanding the ecological and physical systems of the ocean, understanding the processes of scientific discovery in the ocean, and exploring the many interactions that humans have with ocean systems. Crosslisted as ENST 235.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course utilizes popular music as a means of thinking geographically about people and their connections to place, but also people’s interconnections with different places over time. Through different case studies, students will also consider the power of popular music to transform place, to challenge and overcome social divisions.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Critically explores contemporary and historical processes of human manipulation and conservation of nature. How do humans consume, transform, protect, and restore nature globally in relation to interrelated crises of inequality, biodiversity loss and climate change? Crosslisted as ENST 240.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the connection between human-induced climate change, environmental exposures, and health. We will situate climate/environmentally related health problems within social contexts by attending to everyday biological, physical, and chemical agents of the environment. Crosslisted as ENST 241.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will introduce students to the range of qualitative spatial, arts-based, creative and visual methods in geography. Students will learn GIS and qualitative mapping, visual field notes and other tools that amplify deep understandings of lived experience.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Through the integration and utilization of geographical and historical thinking, this course encourages students to explore forgotten, marginalized, and occluded moments in place and time, from the perspective of considering their potential significance and usefulness in the contemporary period. Crosslisted as HIST 243 and UNIV 243.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Explores the complicated relationship between citizenship and race within the United States, examining citizenship and belonging through the lens of feminist scholarship, critical race theory, human geography, postcolonial theory, queer theory and critical ethnic studies. Crosslisted as WMST 246.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines the values, politics and power relations that allow for the exploitation and conservation of nature in specific geographies. We will explore environmental and social justice issues emerging from such practices in Indigenous geographies and their intersection with those in Black and other minoritized geographies across the globe. Crosslisted as ENST 251.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Understanding, the global climate system, how it has changed in the past, how it is changing now in response to human activities, predicted future changes, and our options for mitigating and adapting to them.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3How humanity became an environmental force dictating the future of life on Earth and implications of that fact for individual and societal choices and actions, and the future prospects for humanity and our fellow species in an Anthropocene world.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Specialized topics in physical geography. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores how gender (intersecting with other identities) shapes interactions with the environment and related health outcomes. We will attend to multiple forms of power structures that enable and constrain possibilities of well-being. Crosslisted as ENST 305 and WMST 305.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will examine how infrastructure is used as a tool to structure everyday life in highly uneven ways in varied social settings across the globe. The way infrastructure is planned and organized reflects upon the hierarchical power relations embedded in a place which we will uncover and challenge.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSpecialized topics in environmental geography.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableSpecialized topics in economic geography.
Lecture hours:3The course explores nationalism and its increasing popularity by considering it geographically; for example, its dynamic scalar dimensions, its forging of race and gender spatially, and its naturalization in landscape and built form. In so doing, we will critically consider those interests that nationalism serves. Crosslisted as WMST 316.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will examine how power systems of control and confinement reverberate to reshape society and space. This course will investigate the cultural landscape produced by drives to punish and confine populations, especially drives based on race, gender presentation, and citizenship status. Crosslisted as WMST 317.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableExplores social, economic and environmental issues surrounding globalization and focuses on the role of space for questions of justice, sustainability and social change. Drawing on scholarship in geography and cognate disciplines, students examine how social structures privileging dominant groups produce spatial inequality and marginality across global North and South countries.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableSupervised research, readings, and/or preparation of a paper on some aspect of geography. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableSupervised research, readings, and/or preparation of a paper on some aspect of geography. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableDevelopment and growth of geographic thought; investigation, report and/or seminar on currently significant topics in geography. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableDevelopment and growth of geographic thought; investigation, report and/or seminar on currently significant topics in geography. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as GEOG 622.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Who are "we"? Seminar considers role of space in constituting society around the world. Explores nationalism, globalization, multiculturalism, citizenship, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, disability. Prerequisite: first-year students by permission only. Crosslisted as WMST 324.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A seminar in political ecology that explores the historical, social political and economic dimensions of environmental change in developing regions. First-year students and sophomores by permission only. Crosslisted as ENST 325.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3With an eye toward research design, proposal and grant writing, students will critically engage the role of the University in imagining, creating and understanding place. Students will think about space, how to study it, and, in turn, how studying space produces it.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:2An immersive field-based course focused on understanding the environment from multiple perspectives including the natural/social sciences, the arts and the humanities. Class sessions will take place outdoors in nearby forests (lecture + common hour + picnic lunch; most will end ~2:00 pm).
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Nothing from the environment is more important than food production, nothing affects the environment more; we'll study both environmental and social circumstances. Crosslisted as ENST 345.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Community-based "clinic" course on environmental problems or projects for local stakeholders, based on integrative, interdisciplinary research and design. Preference to senior ENST, ENSC, and GEOG majors.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A praxis course for students majoring/minoring in Geography or pursuing a GIS-E certificate. Students work on a client based independent study, learning about and preparing for post-baccalaureate work in geography including career development and applying for graduate school. Prerequisites: ENST 302 or GEOG 204 or GEOG 205 or GEOG 242 or GEOL 311, or with instructor permission.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
