Advanced & Graduate: 500 & 600-level
500-level classes are open to graduate students, and with permission of the instructor, advanced undergraduates (typically U3).
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.GEOG 502. Geography of Northern Development.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Analysis of the evolution of development policies and their spatial implications in circumpolar areas with an emphasis on the application of geographical concepts. Special attention is given to indigenous peoples and new immigrant populations in northern North America.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A critical review of current themes and trends in health geography, with emphasis on geographical perspectives in public health research. Topics include the social and environmental determinants of chronic and infectious disease, health and health-related behaviours. Seminars focus on critical appraisal of conceptual and methodological approaches in health geography research.
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GEOG 503 Advanced Topics in Health Geography
Geography: A critical review of current themes and trends in health geography, with an emphasis on housing as a place-based determinant of health and as a setting for intervention, i.e. how changes in housing conditions can translate into improvements in health and well-being. Seminars focus on critical appraisal of conceptual and methodological approaches in health geography and related disciplines.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The objective of this seminar course is to develop an understanding of the geographical dimensions of a variety of new forms of economic and social organization that are emerging across the globe. Key themes focus on innovation, technological and managerial change, evolutionary economic geography, globalization, and changing geographies of inequality.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of the storage, transfers and cycling of major elements and substances, with an emphasis on the global scale and the linkages between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Critically analyse major themes in geographic information science and draw out the practical ramifications for spatial technologies and research. Topics such as spatial interoperability, data quality, scale, visualization, location based services and ontologies are covered.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Current theories and themes in social geography, such as relations between society and space, social and spatial relations of inequality, difference and diversity, situated and embodied identities, social issues and problems, connections between society and nature, all within a spatial framework.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Qualitative methods that geographers use and the debates surrounding their use; epistemological underpinnings of methodological choices.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Focus on the environmental and human spatial relationships in tropical rain forest and savanna landscapes. Human adaptation to variations within these landscapes through time and space. Biophysical constraints upon "development" in the modern era.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Questions of space and power in contemporary political geography. Range of topics, including territoriality, the state, the politics of space, critical geopolitics, symbolic landscapes, and GIS and mapping. Emphasizes theoretical issues but includes empirical and/or case studies.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
How does one collect data to quantitatively assess research questions in human geography or other social sciences, and what methods are available to analyze those data? This course introduces students to advanced statistical techniques commonly confronted in field-based social science studies. The course is divided into four major topics: research design, evaluating impacts of policies or programs, time-series data, and spatial interactions. For the techniques investigated, the course will highlight major technical assumptions, field considerations for data collection, and how each does or does not account for geographic factors that may influence outcomes of interest.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A critical examination of: the theoretical and conceptual evolution of climate change vulnerability and adaptation research; methodological developments from the role of model-driven assessments to the rise of participatory case study research, and the integration of vulnerability research into adaptation planning.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Analysis of acute geographic dilemmas of international development. Emphasis on 1) rural systems and the problems of agrobiodiversity, land tenure, conflict, food relief, refugees and migration, the peace process, geopolitics and diplomacy; 2) role of development programs and agendas of the international community, the workings of development On the Ground (TM).
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Linkages and feedbacks among climate, ecosystems, and human land use at global scales. How global-scale ecological processes (primary production, carbon cycle, etc.) are driven by variations in climate and land use practices such as agriculture and deforestation. How natural and human-modified ecosystems exchange carbon and water with the atmosphere.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines current themes relating to mass urbanization in Asia in a range of contexts and the forces that shape the built environment of Asian cities. Various approaches to understanding Asian cities and current theoretical debates will be investigated, including recent critiques of western-centric theorizations of urban change in the region. The course examines a variety of themes through which students will gain familiarity with some of the major strands relating to urban change in Asia: national identity, neoliberalism, social exclusions, migration, religion, ethnicity and sustainability.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Linkage of physical processes (hydrology and ecosystems) with issues of societal and socio-economic relevance (land, food, and water use appropriation for human well-being). Application of a holistic perspective on land, food and water issues in an international setting, highlighting linkages, feedbacks and trade-offs in an Earth system context.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Basic photogrammetry and interpretation procedures for aircraft and space craft photography and imagery.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Study of the unique geomorphic aspects of periglacial and permafrost environments. The focus will be on processes in cold climates, the impact of human activity on permafrost landscapes and potential impacts of climatic change.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An examination of current advances in fluvial geomorphology: sediment entrainment and transport, alluviation and river channel evolution.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth review of a current topic in physical geography.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
In-depth review of a current topic in human geography.
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Credits: 1Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Intensive review of a current topic or technique in physical geography.
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Credits: 1Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Intensive review of a current topic or technique in human geography.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Principles and methods of Quaternary paleoecology and vegetation reconstruction. Examination of ecosystem response to human disturbance and environmental change.
Course information not available.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A broad overview of ecological restoration. Considers causes of environmental degradation, why and what we restore, how restoration goals are set, and standards in restoration practice, as well as critiques and philosophies of ecological restoration, such as "ecocultural" restoration.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Simulation of environmental systems, focusing on problem definition, model development and model validation.
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 617. Advanced Urban Geography.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
General research seminar in human and physical geography.
Outline [Fall 2024]
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 670. Wetlands-Advanced.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A review of the classification, ecosystem services, and biophysical aspects of wetlands: soils, hydrology, and adaptations of biota with an emphasis on ecological biogeography. Includes major ecological processes that occur in wetlands and the environmental factors that control the structure and function of wetland systems. Techniques for studying plant communities are emphasized and applied to 3 different types of wetlands through field and laboratory work.
A fee of $165.00 is charged to all students registered in GEOG 670. The fee will be used to support the cost of transportation (van rental, parking, and gas) additional cost for accommodations and food will be the students responsibility. The trip is required and will give students an opportunity to conduct field study in at least 3 different types of wetlands.