Introductory: 200-level
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Fall 2022]GEOG 200. Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to geography as the study of nature and human beings in a spatial context. An integrated approach to environmental systems and the human organization of them from the viewpoint of spatial relationships and processes. Special attention to environmental problems as a constraint upon Third World development.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Fall 2023]GEOG 201. Introductory Geo-Information Science.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Winter 2024]GEOG 202. Statistics and Spatial Analysis.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Exploratory data analysis, univariate descriptive and inferential statistics, non-parametric statistics, correlation and simple regression. Problems associated with analysing spatial data such as the 'modifiable areal unit problem' and spatial autocorrelation. Statistics measuring spatial pattern in point, line and polygon data.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Fall 2025]GEOG 203. Environmental Systems.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introduction to system-level interactions among climate, hydrology, soils and vegetation at the scale of drainage basins, including the study of the global geographical variability in these land-surface systems. The knowledge acquired is used to study the impact on the environment of various human activities such as deforestation and urbanisation.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline [Winter 2024]GEOG 205. Global Change: Past, Present and Future.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An examination of global change, from the Quaternary Period to the present day involving changes in the physical geography of specific areas. Issues such as climatic change and land degradation will be discussed, with speculations on future environments.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Winter 2020]GEOG 210. Global Places and Peoples.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Fall 2024]GEOG 216. Geography of the World Economy.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Winter 2025]GEOG 217. Cities in the Modern World.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introduction to urban geography. Uses a spatial/geographic perspective to understand cities and their social and cultural processes. Addresses two major areas. The development and social dynamics in North American and European cities. The urban transformations in Asian, African, and Latin American societies that were recently predominantly rural and agrarian.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.GEOG 221. Environment and Health.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
This course introduced physical and social environments as factors in human health, with emphasis on the physical properties of the atmospheric environment as they interact with diverse human populations in urban settings.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Winter 2023]GEOG 272. Earth's Changing Surface.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Introduction to the study of landforms as products of geomorphic and geologic systems acting at and near the Earth's surface. The process geomorphology approach will be used to demonstrate how landforms of different geomorphic settings represent a dynamic balance between forces acting in the environment and the physical properties of materials present.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Fall 2022]GEOG 290. Local Geographical Excursion.
Credits: 1Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Introduction to landscape interpretation and geographical site analysis in physical and human geography. A three-day fall excursion with preparatory and concluding seminars.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline Student/Supervisor Agreement FormGEOG 291. Independent Short Project in Geography.
Credits: 1Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Under the guidance of an instructor with the relevant expertise, the student explores a research topic in Geography and develops a written report.