400 Level Courses

Geography: Conceptual and simulation models of key case studies for developing system thinking, including system stability, threshold dynamics in regime shifts, resilience, and adaptive environmental management.

Offered by: Geography

• Prerequisites: ENVR 201, GEOG 360, and two of the following courses: ENVR 200, ENVR 202, ENVR 203 and GEOG 203.
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken GEOG 501, or GEOG 407 when topic was "Socio-Environmental Systems."

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• Prerequisite: GEOG 205 or GEOG 221 or GEOG 321 or GEOG 303 or permission from the instructor
• Restriction: Course not open to students who were registered for GEOG 303 in Winter 2008.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: This course will examine the human dimensions of climate change focusing on the vulnerability of human systems, climate change adaptation and mitigation, key policy debates, and current and future challenges. Case studies will be utilized to provide context and help investigate and understand key concepts, trends, and challenges.

Offered by: Geography

• Winter
• Prerequisite: ENVR 200 or GEOG 200 or GEOG 205 or GEOG 300 or GEOG 302

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Treatment of contemporary issues in geographical research focusing on human-environmental relations and interactions. Instructor(s) and topics will be announced each term the course is given.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• 3 hours

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• 3 hours
• Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or ENVR 201 or INTD 200 or GEOG 310 or permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: An examination of the cultural, political, and economic mechanisms and manifestations of contemporary underdevelopment and the response to it from different regional and national peripheral societies within the dominant world economic system.

Offered by: Geography

• Winter
• 3 hours
• Prerequisite: GEOG 216 or permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Advanced techniques in geospatial analysis. Geospatial methods and using geospatial information systems. Topics: geodatabases, interpolation techniques, spatial classification methods, data mining and machine learning, including working with a number of leading commercial software including ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop/Pro.

Offered by: Geography

• Prerequisites: GEOG 314; and GEOG 333 or COMP 202; or permission of the instructor.
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GEOG 306 or GEOG 307.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Classic and contemporary perspectives in urban geography. Range of topics including effects of capitalism, gender, suburbanism, segregation and inequality, property, urban landscapes, and urban space. Emphasizes theoretical issues but includes empirical and/or case studies.

Offered by: Geography

• Prerequisite(s): GEOG 217, and one of the following: GEOG 315, GEOG 316, GEOG 325, GEOG 331, or GEOG 525; or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: This interdisciplinary class explores the relationships among memory, place, and political power. The course begins with an introduction to key classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary texts on memory and place-making. It then uses this foundation to examine the symbolic transformation of public space, in particular the construction, alteration, and destruction of monuments, memorials, and museums in postcommunist states and in North America. This approach emphasizes the social quality of memory, exploring the ways in which political interests, economic resources, and social practices can shape something as ostensibly personal and individual as memory.

Offered by: Geography

• Prerequisite(s): One of the following: GEOG 316, GEOG 325, or GEOG 331; or one 200- or 300-level course in Comparative Politics required; or permission of instructor.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking POLI 420, or who have taken POLI 432 when topic was "Memory, Place, and Power”.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Through engaging in real-world sustainability challenges through hands-on research, learn to critically analyze problems that arise at the interface of multiple disciplines including the scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional, ethical, and human behavioural. Develop an understanding of the leverages and road blocks in achieving a sustainability transition.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• Prerequisite: GEOG 360

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: An examination of the structure, function and utility of wetlands. Topics include the fluxes of energy and water, wetland biogeochemistry, plant ecology in freshwater and coastal wetlands and wetlands use, conservation and restoration. Field trip(s) are envisaged to illustrate issues covered in class.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• 3 hours
• Restriction: Permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Independent research project under the guidance of a staff member specializing in the field of interest.

Offered by: Geography

• Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and completion of 30 credits of courses at the 200 level or above.
• A statement of the proposed project and method of evaluation, signed by the student and supervisor, must be submitted to the departmental Undergraduate Coordinator for approval by the add/drop deadline of the semester in which the student registers for this course.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Independent readings or project (non-research) under the guidance of a staff member specializing in the field of interest.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall and Winter
• Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and completion of 30 credits of courses at the 200 level or above.
• A statement of the proposed project and method of evaluation, signed by the student and supervisor, must be submitted to the departmental Undergraduate Coordinator for approval by the add/drop deadline of the semester in which the student registers for this course.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: Supervised reading, research and preparation of an undergraduate thesis under the direction of a member of staff.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• Prerequisite: GEOG 381
• Restriction: For U3 B.A. and B.Sc. Honours and Joint Honours Geography students
• Students must register for both GEOG 491D1 and GEOG 491D2.
• No credit will be given for this course unless both GEOG 491D1 and GEOG 491D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year

Geography: See GEOG 492D1 for course description.

Offered by: Geography

• Winter
• Prerequisite: GEOG 492D1
• No credit will be given for this course unless both GEOG 492D1 and GEOG 492D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2023 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023 academic year