UTexas

Geography (GRG)

GRG 301C, 401C  The Natural Environment  3-4 Hours  

(TCCN: GEOG 1301)  
3,4 Lecture Hours  4.5,6 Lab Hours  
An introduction to the study of the Earth from a holistic perspective including geologic, atmospheric, ecological, and water sciences and its relevance to present-day environmental problems. For each semester hour of credit earned, one lecture and one-and-one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 030  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 301K  Weather and Climate  3 Hours  

(TCCN: GEOL 1347, GEOL 1447)  
3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
A survey of meteorological phenomena and climatological processes of the earth. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 030  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 302L  Landscapes and Cosmovision in Mesoamerica  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, the ways in which they are studied, the landscapes they inhabited, their worldview, and the persistence of the past into the present. Discover how different societies manifested a core set of beliefs shared by all Mesoamerican civilizations while at the same time maintaining local cultural identities. Assess changes in Mesoamerica both spatially and temporally from the Archaic Period through the Spanish Conquest, colonialism, and into modern times. Geography 302L and 302S (Topic: Lanscp and Cosmovisn Mesoam) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 302S  Special Topics in Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 304E, 404E  Environmental Science: A Changing World  3-4 Hours  

3,4 Lecture Hours  4.5,6 Lab Hours  
Surveys the major global environmental concerns affecting the Earth and its residents from the perspectives of the environmental sciences. For each semester hour of credit earned, one lecture hour and one-and-one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 030  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 305  This Human World: An Introduction to Geography  3 Hours  

(TCCN: GEOG 1302)  
3 Lecture Hours  1 Lab Hours  
Introductory survey of human geography, including human-environment relations, cultural patterns and processes, and geography's relation to other fields of study. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 080  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 306C  Conservation  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Introduction to environmental management, with emphasis on the major causes and consequences of environmental degradation. The course is organized around the premise that people cannot solve environmental problems unless they know how and why they occur; a major objective is to identify and understand the sociocultural forces that drive environmental degradation. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 080  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 307C  Introduction to Urban Studies  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
A multidisciplinary study of cities and complex urban environments; historical and contemporary issues from both national and international perspectives. Geography 307C and Urban Studies 301 may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: URB 301  
Core Curriculum: 080  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 309C  Creating the Sustainable Society  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Overview of sustainability as something human beings must strive to create in an era of global warming and ever greater social inequalities, both between and within countries. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 302P (Topic: Creating Sustainable Societies), 309C, Sociology 304 (Topic: Creating Sustainable Societies), 309C. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: SOC 309C  
Core Curriculum: 080  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 310C, 410C  Spatial Data and Analysis  3-4 Hours  

3,4 Lecture Hours  4.5,6 Lab Hours  
Fundamental concepts in spatial data acquisition, analysis, and presentation, with emphasis on the needs of professionals in cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sensing. For each semester hour of credit earned, one lecture and one-and-one-half laboratory hours a week for one one semester.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 312E, 412E  Digital Earth  3-4 Hours  

3,4 Lecture Hours  4.5,6 Lab Hours  
Explore concepts in geospatial technologies that are becoming increasingly important tools in research, policy, and everyday life. Discuss geospatial data sources (ex. GPS, citizen science, satellite imagery), applications (ex. disaster relief, biodiversity conservation, disease spread), and broader implications of their use (ex. privacy, ethical, legal issues). For each semester hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture and one-and-one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 312K  North American Borderlands  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore the formation of political borders in nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America, their contestation, and the multiple meanings attached to them. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 310D, Geography 312K, History 312D, Mexican American Studies 316R, 319 (Topic: North American Borderlands). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AMS 310D, HIS 312D, MAS 316R  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 319  Geography of Latin America  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Adaptations to population growth and spatial integration in cultural landscapes of great natural and ethnic diversity; problems of frontiers and cities. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 319  
Core Curriculum: 080  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Lower Division  

GRG 119S, 219S, 319S, 419S, 519S, 619S, 719S, 819S, 919S  Topics in Geography  1-9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Geography and the Environment. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  

GRG 320J  Environmental Justice  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine the socio-political, economic, and racialized history of both environmental ruin and environmental justice via a critical geographic lens connecting feminist political ecology, antiracist and abolitionist ecologies, decolonial geographies, and critical physical geographies. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 320J, 356 (Topic: Environmental Justice), Liberal Arts Honors 350 (Topic: Environmental Justice). Three lecture hours a week for one semester
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 320K  Land and Life: The American Southwest  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Historical geography of the southwestern United States, emphasizing the ways of life of American Indian, Spanish, mestizo, and Anglo cultures. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with one field trip to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 320M  Geography of Media  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explores communication media from a geographical perspective. Subjects include place images, changing attitudes about public and private spaces, social networking, and the geography of communications infrastructure. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 320M, 356T (Topic: Geography of Media), 356T (Topic 7) Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 320N  Exhibitions and Public Spectacle  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Investigate exhibits, world's fairs, museum, monuments, theme parks, and historical reconstructions from Europe and the US, with attention to images of how their sponsoring nations or other entities want to be seen. Examine evidence for both the good and bad sides of national pride and identity. Explore examples of how large-scale culture projects and the public interact. Consider the lasting marks left on the cities and countries sponsoring them. Only one of the following may be counted: Comparative Literature 323 (Topic 46), 324J, European Studies 347 (Topic 41), 347M, Geography 320N, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 361N. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: C L 324J, EUS 347M, GSD 361N  
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 320P  Political Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explores how social power relations play out across space, and how spatial patterns and processes underlie various forms of social power. Focus on borders, conflicts, peacemaking, migration, environmental politics, urban politics, embodiment, emotion and affect. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and Geography 305.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 320U  Urban Imaginaries  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Use science fiction literature, film, and other cultural artifacts as a platform to launch an examination into the central concept of urban imaginaries. Discuss the politics (and potential) of urban representation as well as understand how urban imaginaries influence everyday urban life and the ongoing production of urban space and place. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic: Urban Imaginaries), 370 (Topic 79), Geography 320U, Urban Studies 321M. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AMS 370.79, URB 321M  
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 321D  Development and Social Movement in East and Southeast Asia  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine the notions of development and the ways in which development is associated with state building, moral economy, political performance, and accumulation regimes. Explore the development of civil society and social movement in East Asia, and explanations of the mechanisms and drivers of displacement. Conceptualize the "Right to the City", and alternative right-based approaches to land, housing, infrastructure, commons and public resources. Only one of the following may be counted: Asian Studies 361 (Topic: Development and Movement), 361J, Geography 321D, 356T (Topic: Development and Movement). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANS 361J  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 321F  Food in the Racialized City  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore a variety of issues related to producing, accessing, and consuming food in city spaces in the context of racial inequities. Investigate and question constructs such as "food" and "city" as means of exploring different points of view and approaches to studying not only food and cities but also various approaches to food justice. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352P, 370 (Topic: Food in the Racialized City), American Studies 371C, Geography 321F. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 352P, AMS 371C  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 321L  Archaeology of Climate Change  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examines why climate changes, the methods for recording climate change, and includes case studies of the varied responses of past human societies to climate change in different geographic regions and time periods with varying socio-political and economic systems. Only one of the following may be counted: Anthropology 324L (Topic: Archaeology of Climate Change), 324L (Topic 57), Geography 321L, 356 (Topic: Archaeology of Climate Change). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 324L.57  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 321U  Race, Social Justice, and the City  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine the way that race and inequality are built into the structures and ideas surrounding urban life through the spatial and racial structures of capitalist development, racialized migration, and redevelopment and gentrification campaigns. Analyze how United States cities are racial geographies. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 321U, Urban Studies 322R, Urban Studies 354 (Topic: Race, Social Just & the City). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: URB 322R  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 322D  Human Health and the Environment  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Introduction to environmental health concepts. Examine current events to explore the relationship between environment and health and whether an environmental condition is or is not an important threat to health. Discuss the complexity of determining "proof" in this field. Geography 322D and Urban Studies 332D may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: URB 332D  
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 322G  Politics of Protecting the Great Barrier Reef  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  3 Lab Hours  
Examine the numerous environmental challenges Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) faces. Explore the livelihoods of the people who depend on or impact the GBR, and the people who are trying to save it. Geography 322G and Government 347P may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GOV 347P  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 322L  Geographies of Latin American to United States Migration  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine the contemporary complex multi-scalar origins, patterns, and processes of Latin American and Caribbean migration and settlement in the United States. Through a place-specific, spatially contextualized, and historically situated approach, explore the collective and individual experiences of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from select nations including: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Cuba. Analyze the multi-layered factors shaping diverse Latin American migratory patterns and processes. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 322L, 356T (Topic: Geog of Lat American-U.S. Migr), Latin American Studies 325E, 330 (Topic: Geog of Lat American-U.S. Migr). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 325E  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 322M  Maya Art and Architecture  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Introduction to the artistic traditions of the ancient Maya, tracing their development up to the time of European contact. Students will examine various important themes of Maya culture including history, ritual, and cosmology as revealed in sculpture, hieroglyphs, painting, and architectural design. Only one of the following may be counted: Anthropology 323V, 324L (Topic: Maya Art and Architecture), Art History 347M, Latin American Studies 327 (Topic 5), Geography 322M, 356T (Topic: Maya Art/Architecture). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 323V, ARH 347M, LAS 327.5  
Core Curriculum: 050  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 323K  South America: Nature, Society and Sustainability  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Field study of environmental and social change in selected landscapes in South America, such as protected areas; places of food production; transportation routes; migrant landscapes; urban areas; sites of cultural and historical importance; and issues of human rights. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 330.3  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 323M  Literature, Culture, and Ecology in Northern and Central Europe  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore a variety of texts, films, and artifacts from Northern and Central Europe for the insights they provide about the interrelationships between nature and culture and strategies for developing a sustainable relationship to the world around us. Only one of the following may be counted: Comparative Literature 323K, European Studies 347 (Topic 61), Geography 323M, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies 362M. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: C L 323K, EUS 347.61, GSD 362M  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 324E  Applications and Ethics of Digital Spatial Technologies  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore the applications and ethical considerations of remote sensing, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies and practice. Geography 324E and 356T (Topic: Dig Spatial Tech: App/Ethcs) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 324F  Race, Capitalism, and the Environment  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 351U, 372C (Topic: Race/Capitalism/Environment), Geography 324F, 356T (Topic: Race/Capitalism/Environment), Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Race/Capitalism/Environment), 340 (Topic 82). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 351U, WGS 340.82  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 324M  Sustainable Maya Geographies - Past to Future  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore landscapes, conservation, and human-environment dynamics in the Maya region of Central America from more than 10,000 years ago to modern times. Compare sustainable practices from the past with those of indigenous Maya communities today to guide the future. Only one of the following may be counted: Anthropology 326M, Geography 324M, 356T (Topic: Sust Maya Geog: Past to Future), Latin American Studies 330 (Topic 6). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 326M, LAS 330.6  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 325  Geography of Texas  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Texas as an environmental and cultural borderland: as a transition zone between plains and mountains, humid and arid, South and West, Anglo-America and Latin America. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 325E  The Healthy, Livable City  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore the design of the built environment and its potential for addressing and preventing many childhood and adult health concerns in the United States. Examine how to create healthy, walkable, vital communities for all. Geography 325E and Urban Studies 325E may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: URB 325E  
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 326  Regions and Cultures of Europe  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Spatial patterns in Europe, with emphasis on cultural, historical, and political geography. Only one of the following may be counted: European Studies 346 (Topic: Regions and Cultures of Europe), 346 (Topic 19), Geography 326, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 345 (Topic 2).
Same as: EUS 346.19, REE 345.2  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 326C  Sensing: Elemental Media  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore a sensory ethnographic investigation of urban ecology, organized around air, water, earth, and fire as themes for engaging with the city through media and the senses. Only one of the following may be counted: Anthropology 323U, 324L (Topic: Sensing: Elemental Media), Geography 326C, Urban Studies 320E. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 323U, URB 320E  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 326G  International Political Economy of Lower-Income Countries  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore the ways that China, India, Brazil and other lower-income countries are transforming the patterns in global finance, trade, aid, women's empowerment, and the control or corruption. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 326G, Government 355M (Topic: Intl Pol Econ Low-Incm Countrs), 366M, Sociology 324P. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: GOV 366M, SOC 324P  
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 327  Geography of the Former Soviet Union  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
A systematic introduction to cultural, physical, political, and economic geography of the former Soviet Union. Focus on the fundamental transformation that the former Socialist Union Republics, now sovereign states, have undergone since 1991. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: REE 345.4  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 327G  Introduction to Geospatial Artificial Intelligence  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  1 Lab Hours  
Focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods and their applications on geospatial problems. Explore python programming and GIS data preparation for machine learning models, ML foundations, regression, clustering, decision tree and random forest, neural network, embedding, and location representation learning. Geography 327G and 356T (Topic: Intro to Geospatial AI) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper division standing  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 328E  Geography in Eastern Europe and Eurasia  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore alternatives to nation-state imaginaries across Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Examine spatial thinking, utopia, dystopia, the history of geosciences, counter-mapping, and the decolonial geopoetics of space. Only one of the following may be counted: Comparative Literature 323 (Topic 78), Geography 328E, History 361U, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 335 (Topic 37). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: C L 323.78, HIS 361U, REE 335.37  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 328F  Black Geographies  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore the relationship between Blackness and the production of space and place. Examine the tensions and possibilities that emerge when Black people are rendered un-geographic as a fundamental component of racial capitalism while they are simultaneously creating spaces of freedom under constant threats to Black life. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 352Q, 370 (Topic: Black Geographies), American Studies 371D, Anthropology 323O, Geography 328F. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 352Q, AMS 371D, ANT 323O  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 328J  Land in America  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore how the history of land helps explain the society we live in today and ideas about the human-nature relationship. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 328E, Geography 328J, History 356C, Mexican American Studies 364S, 374 (Topic: Land in America). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AMS 328E, HIS 356C, MAS 364S  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 328L  Asian Diaspora on Indigenous Lands  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore Indigenous and Asian entanglements and solidarities on Turtle Island (North America) and the Pacific. Examine settler colonialism, racial capitalism, war and militarism, racism and power, and environmental change. Only one of the following may be counted: Asian American Studies 335 (Topic: Asian Dias on Indigen Lands), 330I, Geography 328L. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AAS 330I  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 129S, 229S, 329S, 429S, 529S, 629S, 729S, 829S, 929S  Topics in Geography  1-9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Geography and the Environment. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  

GRG 330F  Geographies of International Development in Africa  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Critically examines the major approaches to "Development" in colonial and postcolonial eras, with a focus on a range of African resources: from water to wildlife, forests to farms, airways to rangelands, and including a consideration of African bodies themselves as sites of development and resistance. African and African Diaspora Studies 340M and Geography 330F may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 340M  
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 330L  Lidar Analysis  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Discuss the fundamental concepts and applications of light detection and ranging (lidar). Assess aerial and ground-based lidar including the quality of the data, how to process the raw data, and analysis of data. Geography 330L and 356T (Topic: Lidar Analysis) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Geography 460G or 462K.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 330W, 430W  Water and Watersheds  3-4 Hours  

3,4 Lecture Hours  4.5,6 Lab Hours  
Exposure to numerical analyses techniques developed by hydrologists and to fundamental equations controlling water transfer over and through earth materials. Learn how to administer hydrologic applications to practical problems in physical geography, geology, civil engineering, ecology, and environmental sciences. Geography 330W and 356 (Topic: Water and Watersheds) may not both be counted. For each semester hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture and one-and-one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and Geography 301C.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 331E  East European Transnational Worlds to 1914  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine an overview of major developments in the economic, political, social, cultural, and gender and sexuality fields of East European history before 1914. Explore diplomacy, institutional legacies of war and peace, urban and rural developments and inequalities, spaces of language and religion, race, labor migration, and the arts. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 331E, History 361T, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 335 (Topic 38). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 361T, REE 335.38  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 331K  Nature, Society, and Adaptation  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Long term trajectories of change in human environment relationships, including issues of human evolution and human nature, violence, population, food, agriculture, urbanization, globalizing modernization, and environmental impacts; issues of sustainability, cultural survival, human rights, and environmental protection. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 324L.17  
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 332L  Community and Citizen Science  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine the contributions of volunteered geographic information (VGI) to geographic knowledge alongside an analysis of alternative forms of community-based knowledge production. Explore an overview of citizen science, community science, and VGI datasets. Develop and carry out community-based participatory research projects informed by the growing literature on community and citizen science. Geography 332L and 356T (Topic: Community and Citizen Science) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper division standing  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 333C  Severe and Unusual Weather  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
A continuation of Geography 301K, focuses on atmospheric hazards such as severe thunderstorms and their offspring (hail, lightning, tornadoes, damaging winds and flash floods) as well as tropical cyclones. Covers human risk perception in relation to atmospheric hazards. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with additional field hours to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Geography 301K.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 333K  Climate Change  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examines changes in climatic systems over both short and long time periods in relation to impacts on physical and ecological systems. Discusses past, present, and future changes in climatic conditions and the methods used to make those evaluations. Geography 333K and 356T (Topic: Climate Change) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 334  Conservation, Resources, and Technology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Analysis of the relationship between the human population and its resource base, with particular emphasis on current problems in environmental resource management. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 334E  Children's Environmental Health  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Discuss environmental health issues as they pertain to children's health. Focus on emerging scientific and public health issues such as water quality, air pollution, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and the food environment. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 334K  Soils  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Morphology, genesis, properties, and distribution of world soils. Factors of soil formation. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing; and six semester hours of coursework in physical geography or one or more of the geological or natural sciences, or the equivalent.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 334L  Vulnerability to Natural Hazards  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An interdisciplinary approach, set right at the nexus of both physical and human geography, to studying the types of natural disasters that occur throughout Earth with a focus on tropical areas. Explore a region's susceptibility to natural disasters by studying the physical phenomena that incite specific hazards so that their spatial distribution can be outlined. Utilize theoretical frameworks that can expose the social causes of human vulnerability, the political repercussions of disasters, and how disaster response varies from country to country depending on varying political stances and economic conditions. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 334C, 334L, Latin American Studies 330 (Topic: Environment Hazards Latin America/Caribbean), 330 (Topic 5). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 330.5  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 335C  Quaternary Landscapes  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Changing physical and biotic landscapes on the Ice Age earth during the last two million years. Reconstruction of Quaternary geomorphic landscapes based on principles and applications of geochronology and paleoclimatology. Geography 335C and 385C may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and Geography 301C.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 335D  Anthropocene  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Evaluates the role of humans in changing Earth systems. Examines the evidence used to reconstruct past environments, to decipher the ecological and biogeographical consequences of land use, to measure altered surface processes, to distinguish the anthropogenic contribution to climate change, and to predict likely future scenarios. Explores the interaction of human history with altered biophysical patterns and processes. Assesses the recognition of the Anthropocene as a potential new epoch in Earth history, including the implications of that recognition for environmental stewardship. Geography 335D and 356T (Topic: Anthropocene) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing, and three semester hours of coursework in physical geography or one of the geological or natural sciences.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 335K  Mountain Geoecology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Geological evolution of mountains. Physical geography of mountains: climates, soils, vegetation, landforms and geomorphic processes. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in physical geography or one or more of the geological or natural sciences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 335N  Landscape Ecology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Discuss spatial patterns in the Earth's biosphere found within landscapes, typically areas measured in square kilometers. Examine the processes that create those patterns, drawing from ecology, biogeography, and many other disciplines. Use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze and understand the spatial arrangements and configurations of natural and human-modified environments. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and three semester hours of coursework in physical geography or one of the geological or natural sciences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 336  Contemporary Cultural Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Recent theoretical developments in cultural geography, with a focus on landscapes and the everyday practices that imbue them with meaning; the ways those meanings are contested and are the foci of struggle; and how the relationship between culture and space plays a central role in the social construction of identity. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 336, Urban Studies 340, 354 (Topic 8). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: URB 340  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 336C  National Parks and Protected Areas  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Introduces current conservation principles and management strategies; outlines the challenges, changes, and dilemmas associated with protected areas. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 337  The Modern American City  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Issues facing residents of United States cities, such as transportation and housing, poverty and crime, metropolitan finance, environmental and architectural design; historical/comparative urban evolution. Only one of the following may be counted: Architecture 350R (Topic 1), Geography 337, Urban Studies 337, 352 (Topic 1). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ARC 350R.1, URB 337  
Pre/Corequisites: For students in the School of Architecture, upper-division standing; for others, upper-division standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 338C  Rivers and Landscapes: Fluvial Geomorphology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Drainage basin evolution and channel adjustment, variability of river systems in differing geomorphic regimes, relationships between fluvial systems and other components of physical geography, and the role of humans as geomorphic agents. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with additional field hours to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing; and Geography 301C or Geological Sciences 401, or the equivalent.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 339, 439  Process Geomorphology  3-4 Hours  

3,4 Lecture Hours  4.5,6 Lab Hours  
Analysis of geomorphic processes and their effects on landform development. For each semester hour of credit earned, one lecture and one-and-one-half laboratory hours a week for one one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing, and credit or registration for Geography 301C or Geological Sciences 401.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 339K  Environment, Development, and Food Production  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Assessment of various types of agriculture with regard to environmental factors and management techniques. Geography 339K and 390S may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 340D  Political Ecology of Globalization and Environmental Degradation  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Study of current environmental problems from the perspective of political ecology, which critically examines political, economic, and social relations between humans and the natural world. Uses case studies from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East to address climate change, deforestation, desertification, biodiversity, and environmental justice. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 440L  Landuse/Landcover Change Practicum  4 Hours  

2 Lecture Hours  3 Lab Hours  
Focuses on best practices for classifying and mapping land use and land cover, as well as how they change over time in an experiential learning environment. Develop testable hypotheses answered by the original data analysis and interpretation. Geography 440L and 356T (Topic: Landuse/Landcover Change Practicum) may not both be counted. Two lecture hours and three laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 340U  Internship and Service Learning  3 Hours  

5 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Internship experience in an urban studies-related public or nonprofit agency. The opportunity to apply the knowledge, theory, and understanding gained from courses in areas of specialization to urban issues in a professional setting. Includes an academic service-learning component. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 340U, 356T (DIRECTED INTRNSHPS IN URB STDS), Urban Studies 360. Approximately five to ten hours a week for one semester.
Same as: URB 360  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing; and Urban Studies 301 and 315.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 341K  Landscapes of Mexico and Caribbean America  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The natural regions and cultural landscapes of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 330.2  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 342C  Sustainable Development  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Historical and contemporary analysis of international development with a focus on the prospects for environmental sustainability. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 342N  Sustainable Landscapes and Seascapes  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Survey the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of sustainable uses of land-based and aquatic natural resources. Examine the sustainability of landscapes utilized for forestry, farming, agroforestry, and rangeland systems, as well as the riverscapes and seascapes utilized by people. Geography 342N and 356T (Topic: Sus Landscapes & Seascapes) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing. Credit or registration for Geography 335N is recommended.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 342S  Sustainability, Equity, and Health  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 342S, 356 (Topic: Sustainability/Equity/Health), Health and Society 340 (Topic: Sustainability/Equity/Health), 347E. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: H S 347E  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 343E  Mapping Latin America  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Discuss the role of maps in the creation of Latin America as a specific sort of place. As such, allows familiarity with a broad overview of Latin American history from Pre-Columbian civilizations to the modern period. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 343E, 356T (Topic: Mapping Latin America), 356T (Topic 12), History 363E, 363K (Topic: Mapping Latin America), 363K (Topic 4), Latin American Studies 330 (Topic: Mapping Latin America), 330 (Topic 4). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: HIS 363E, LAS 330.4  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 344G  Environmental Law  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine environmental law and its impact on all life. Analyze key federal environmental statutes and leading cases in which these statutes have been interpreted by courts. Geography 344G and 356 (Topic: Environmental Law) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 344K  Global Food, Farming, and Hunger  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examination of contemporary transformations in global agro-food systems, with emphasis on the current paradox of epidemic obesity in some parts of the world and enduring hunger in others. Geography 344K and 356T (Topic: Farming, Food, and Global Hunger) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 346  The Human Use of the Earth  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The state of the world from an ecological perspective. Case studies are drawn from a wide range of ecological settings and involve both traditional and modern societies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 348E  Tourism and Place in the Global South  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Debunk the myth that tourism is inherently desirable by unpacking the mechanisms of violence and inequalities of power embedded in tourism and tourism development. Only one of the following may be counted: Asian Studies 330E, 361 (Topic: Tourism/Place Global South), Geography 348E. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANS 330E  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 349S  Global Sustainability and Soil  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine soil as a resource from the perspectives of natural and sustainability science, including soil ecology and biodiversity, formation, fertility for ecosystems and farming systems, soil health, distinguishing characteristics in nature, taxonomy, and soil spatial variability around the globe. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 349S, 356 (Topic: Global Sustnblty/Soil-Hon), Liberal Arts Honors 350 (Topic: Global Sustainability/Soil), 352J. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAH 352J  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing, Geography 401C, and a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.25.  
Restrictions: Restricted to Plan I majors in the College of Liberal Arts.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 350E  Geoprocessing  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Computer programming and scripting applied to geospatial data. Geography 350E and 356T (Topic: Geoprocessing) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and Geography 460G.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 350K  Geographies of Globalization  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examines globalization in historical and contemporary contexts, with a focus on race, class and gendered power. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356C  Geo-Archaeology and Environmental History  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Long-term ecology as reconstructed from settlement and land-use histories. Empirical case studies in environmental history from the Mediterranean region, the Near East, and Mesoamerica. Applications to degradation, desertification, sustainability, and global change. Only one of the following may be counted: Anthropology 382N, Geography 356C, 382K. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356D  Water Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine the variability of landscapes, climatic regions, and anthropogenic activities found throughout Latin America and the insular Caribbean to explore the complex issues related to water resource accessibility. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356 (Topic: Water Res: Lat Amer/Caribbean), 356D, Latin American Studies 330 (Topic: Water Res: Lat Amer/Caribbean), 331. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 331  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356T  Topics in Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Some topics may require additional field trips.
Pre/Corequisites: Varies with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Upper Division  
Topic 1: The Culture of Cities. Examines the social, geographical, and cultural evolution of the United States from a rural and small-town society to an urban and suburban nation. Subjects may include the segregation of public and private space; the formation of urban subcultures organized by gender, work, race, religion, and sexuality; social and spatial divisions between rich and poor and native-born and immigrant; and the increasing importance of cultural capital" in reshaping urban politics and in conflicts over revitalization and gentrification. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 13), Geography 356T (Topic 1), Urban Studies 320T, 354 (Topic 4). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AMS 370.13, URB 320T Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 2: Memory and Place. Explores how cultural memory is produced in its various forms, from memorials, public art, and commodities to popular culture, rituals, and museums, and how public remembering is inevitably anchored in specific geographic places. Same as: AMS 370.23 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 3: Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Designed to give students interested in the fields of archaeology, physical anthropology, and paleontology a foundation in the use of geographical information systems (GIS) and the analysis of remotely sensed data from satellites and aerial photographs. Same as: ANT 324L.33 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 4: Northern Lands and Cultures. Develops geographical understanding of the Circumpolar region of the North, an ancient human habitat, home to distinct millennia-old civilizations. Only one of the following may be counted: European Studies 346 (Topic: Northern Lands and Cultures), 346 (Topic 9), Geography 356T (Topic: Northern Lands and Cultures), 356T (Topic 4), Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 345 (Topic: Northern Lands and Cultures), 345 (Topic 6). Same as: EUS 346.9, REE 345.6 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 5: Urban Publics. The concept of the public in the city and how it has shifted over time along the lines of gender, ethnicity, race, and class. Examines contemporary struggles over defining the urban public and how those struggles are linked to social, cultural, political, and economic forces. Subjects include uses of public space, the public sphere, eminent domain, urban politics, civic engagement, and political participation. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356T (Topic 5), Urban Studies 324C, 354 (Topic: Urban Publics). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: URB 324C Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 6: The Environmental Change and Management of Large Rivers. An interdisciplinary perspective on the physical processes of large rivers. Subjects include land degradation; deforestation; river engineering; flood processes; sedimentology; floodplains management; ecohydrology; Quaternary fluvial geomorphology; and paleohydrology. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356T (Topic: Environmental Change and Management of Large Rivers), 356T (Topic 6), Latin American Studies 330 (Topic: Environmental Change and Management of Large Rivers). Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 7: The Geography Of Media. Explores the media from a geographical perspective. Geography 356T (Topic: Geography of Media) and 356T (Topic 7) may not both be counted. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 8: Global Societies. The use of geographical perspectives to make sense of the global society. Subjects include globalization, war, economic crisis, and social movements. Geography 356T (Topic: Global Societies) and 356T (Topic 8) may not both be counted. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 9: Human Health and the Environment. Study of how environmental issues directly impact human lives, including the developing and developed worlds, current conditions and future trends, and environmental degradation. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356T (Topic: Human Health and the Environment), 356T (Topic 9), Urban Studies 350 (Topic: Human Health and the Environment), 350 (Topic 2). Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 10: Geographies of International Development in Africa. Critically examines the major approaches to "Development" in colonial and postcolonial eras, with a focus on a range of African resources: from water to wildlife, forests to farms, airways to rangelands, and including a consideration of African bodies themselves as sites of development and resistance. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356T (Topic: INTL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA), 356T (Topic 10), African and African Diaspora Studies 372F (Topic: INTL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA), 372F (Topic 1). Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 11: Gender and Geography. Interrogates how norms of gender, race, and sexuality are created through and across the spaces of the body, home, nation, colony and the globe, using a feminist postcolonial lens. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356T (Topic: Gender and Geography), 356T (Topic 11), Women and Gender Studies 340 (Topic: Gender and Geography), 340 (Topic 36) Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 12: Mapping Latin America. Discuss the role of maps in the creation of Latin America as a specific sort of place. As such, allows familiarity with a broad overview of Latin American history from Pre-Columbian civilizations to the modern period. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 343E, 356T (Topic: Mapping Latin America), 356T (Topic 12), History 363E, 363K (Topic: Mapping Latin America), 363K (Topic 4), Latin American Studies 330 (Topic: Mapping Latin America), 330 (Topic 4). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Topic 14: Geography of Religion in Eastern Europe and Russia. A comprehensive overview of major religious culture regions in the former Eastern bloc countries. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356T (Topic: Geography of Religion in Eastern Europe and Russia), 356T (Topic 14), Religious Studies 357 (Topic: Geography of Religion in Eastern Europe and Russia), 357 (Topic 5), 357G, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 345 (Topic: Geography of Religion in Eastern Europe and Russia), 345 (Topic 9). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: R S 357G, REE 345.9 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
  

GRG 356T.1  The Culture of Cities  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examines the social, geographical, and cultural evolution of the United States from a rural and small-town society to an urban and suburban nation. Subjects may include the segregation of public and private space; the formation of urban subcultures organized by gender, work, race, religion, and sexuality; social and spatial divisions between rich and poor and native-born and immigrant; and the increasing importance of cultural capital" in reshaping urban politics and in conflicts over revitalization and gentrification. Only one of the following may be counted: American Studies 370 (Topic 13), Geography 356T (Topic 1), Urban Studies 320T, 354 (Topic 4). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AMS 370.13, URB 320T  
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356T.14  Geography of Religion in Eastern Europe and Russia  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
A comprehensive overview of major religious culture regions in the former Eastern bloc countries. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356T (Topic: Geography of Religion in Eastern Europe and Russia), 356T (Topic 14), Religious Studies 357 (Topic: Geography of Religion in Eastern Europe and Russia), 357 (Topic 5), 357G, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 345 (Topic: Geography of Religion in Eastern Europe and Russia), 345 (Topic 9). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: R S 357G, REE 345.9  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356T.2  Memory and Place  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explores how cultural memory is produced in its various forms, from memorials, public art, and commodities to popular culture, rituals, and museums, and how public remembering is inevitably anchored in specific geographic places.
Same as: AMS 370.23  
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356T.3  Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Paleontology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Designed to give students interested in the fields of archaeology, physical anthropology, and paleontology a foundation in the use of geographical information systems (GIS) and the analysis of remotely sensed data from satellites and aerial photographs.
Same as: ANT 324L.33  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356T.4  Northern Lands and Cultures  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Develops geographical understanding of the Circumpolar region of the North, an ancient human habitat, home to distinct millennia-old civilizations. Only one of the following may be counted: European Studies 346 (Topic: Northern Lands and Cultures), 346 (Topic 9), Geography 356T (Topic: Northern Lands and Cultures), 356T (Topic 4), Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 345 (Topic: Northern Lands and Cultures), 345 (Topic 6).
Same as: EUS 346.9, REE 345.6  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356T.5  Urban Publics  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The concept of the public in the city and how it has shifted over time along the lines of gender, ethnicity, race, and class. Examines contemporary struggles over defining the urban public and how those struggles are linked to social, cultural, political, and economic forces. Subjects include uses of public space, the public sphere, eminent domain, urban politics, civic engagement, and political participation. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356T (Topic 5), Urban Studies 324C, 354 (Topic: Urban Publics). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: URB 324C  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356T.6  The Environmental Change and Management of Large Rivers  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An interdisciplinary perspective on the physical processes of large rivers. Subjects include land degradation; deforestation; river engineering; flood processes; sedimentology; floodplains management; ecohydrology; Quaternary fluvial geomorphology; and paleohydrology. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 356T (Topic: Environmental Change and Management of Large Rivers), 356T (Topic 6), Latin American Studies 330 (Topic: Environmental Change and Management of Large Rivers).
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 356T.8  Global Societies  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The use of geographical perspectives to make sense of the global society. Subjects include globalization, war, economic crisis, and social movements. Geography 356T (Topic: Global Societies) and 356T (Topic 8) may not both be counted.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 357  Medical Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The geographic distribution, expansion, and contraction of the infectious diseases that have the greatest influence in shaping human societies today: malaria, AIDS, and others. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 358E  Geography and Religion  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Ideas about the relationships among the natural world, myth, and ritual; principal focus on Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and their offshoots and antagonists in the Western world. Geography 358E and Humanities 350 (Topic 3) may not both be counted.
Same as: HMN 350.3  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 460G  Environmental Geographic Information Systems  4 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  2 Lab Hours  
An introduction to the creation and use of geographic information systems. Three lecture hours and two lab hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 462K  Introduction to Remote Sensing of the Environment  4 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  1.5 Lab Hours  
The use of electromagnetic energy to sense objects in the natural environment; interpretation and recognition of patterns detected by sensors. Three lecture hours and one and one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: 0  

GRG 464K  Advanced Remote Sensing and Pattern Analysis  4 Hours  

4.5 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Advanced classification techniques for satellite image processing and landscape pattern analysis. Geography 356 (Topic: Advanced Remote Sensing and Pattern Analysis) and 464K may not both be counted. Three lecture hours and one and one-half discussion hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing, and Geography 462K or the equivalent or consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 366C  Comparative Ecosystems  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The important ecosystem processes that affect the distributions, characteristics, and management of natural environments at landscape, regional, and continental scales. Ecosystem functions, including nutrient cycling, water balance, and the role of natural disturbances in a wide range of ecosystems, from the tundra to the rain forests and grasslands of the tropics. Geography 356T (Topic: Comparative Ecosystems) and 366C may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and three semester hours of coursework in physical geography or one of the geological or natural sciences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 366K  Biogeography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Contemporary patterns of plant and animal distribution, and the environmental and historical processes affecting them. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and three semester hours of coursework in physical geography or one of the geological or natural sciences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 367D  Climate Change and Vegetation Response in the Kalahari  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Using the Kalahari as a basis for understanding, explore the ecological dynamics of savanna systems and their interactions with climatic variability over time and space. The focus on monitoring and assessment to inform rangeland management includes vegetation sampling and calculations of carrying capacity. Examine how savanna systems dynamics are comparable across regions, and thus are both globally and UT-locally relevant. Geography 356T (Topic: Climate Change and Vegetation Response in the Kalahari) and 367D may not both be counted. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: GPA of at least 2.0.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 367K  Vegetation Ecology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Plant autecology and synecology. Ecological factors and processes of plant communities. Vegetation geoecology, succession, and dynamics. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and six semester hours of coursework in physical geography or one or more of the geological or natural sciences.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 368C  Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Addresses spatial problem solving by focusing on both the theoretical/conceptual and practical aspects of geographic information systems modeling. Describes geographic information systems techniques and spatial statistics used to quantify and measure spatial patterns. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and Geography 460G (360G).  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 368D  Enviro-Cultural Dynamics in Botswana  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examines the Kalahari case study of the San "First People" and their history of treatment in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve compared to other more recently arriving peoples. Explores how cultural groups are differentially treated and how that treatment and their ties to and uses of the landscape evolves over time. Geography 356T (Topic: Enviro-Cultural Dynamics in Botswana) and 368D may not both be counted. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: GPA of at least 2.0.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 369D  GIS Applications in Social and Environmental Science  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
A hands-on approach to covering the appropriate use of geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial statistical analysis in different sub-disciplines. Geography 356 (Topic: GIS Applications in Social and Environmental Science) and 369D may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Geography 412E or 460G.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 470C  Advanced Geographic Information Systems  4 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  1.5 Lab Hours  
Study of methods of spatial analysis, design and implementation of a geographic information system, vector and raster modeling, and advanced applications of geographic information systems. Three lecture hours and one and one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and Geography 460G (360G).  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 370D  Spatial Reasoning with Geographic Information Systems  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, examine different types of real-world problems. Read newspaper and journal articles about real issues or problems and explore how they can be addressed and potentially solved. Focus on specific problems and learn about the GIS tools and techniques that are appropriate for each scenario. Geography 356 (Topic: Spatial Reasoning with GIS) and 370D may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Geography 460G.  
Grading: Letter Grade  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 373F  Field Techniques  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Introduction to the collection and mapping of environmental and cultural data, involving both classroom lectures and outdoor exercises. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 373K  Field Methods for Landscape Characterization  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The design of research questions and the acquisition of data for the characterization of landscapes. Utilizes geographical and ecological field-based methods. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and Geography 301C or the equivalent.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 374  Frontiers in Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Current concerns and methodology in the field of geography; an introduction to theory and research in geography. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester, with one field trip to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and consent of the undergraduate adviser.  
Restrictions: Restricted to geography majors and students seeking a secondary school teaching certificate with geography as the second teaching field.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 476T  Topics in Geography  4 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  1.5 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours and one and one-half laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 679H  Honors Tutorial Course  6 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Individual reading of selected works for one semester, followed in the second semester by the writing of an honors thesis. Regular conferences with the faculty supervisor are also required. Conference course for two semesters.
Core Curriculum: 010  
Pre/Corequisites: For 679HA, admission to the Geography Honors Program no later than two semesters before expected graduation; for 679HB, Geography 679HA. A University grade point average of at least 3.00 and a grade point average in geography of at least 3.50 are required for admission to the Geography Honors Program.  
Restrictions: For honors candidates in geography.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 379K  Conference Course  3 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Supervised individual study of selected problems in geography. Conference course.
Pre/Corequisites: Six semester hours of upper-division coursework in one or more of the social, geological, or natural sciences; and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 379L  Practicum: Internships in Applied Geography  3 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  6 Lab Hours  
Research and staff experience working in an appropriate government agency or private business. At least six but no more than nine hours of work a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Completion of at least seventy semester hours of coursework, including twelve semester hours of geography, and consent of the undergraduate adviser.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

GRG 380  Field Course in Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Collection of data, formulation of meaningful categories of regions, development of hypotheses of cause-and-effect relations through direct contact with the phenomena and processes in the area where a problem is located. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 380C  Myth, Ritual, Place, and Environment  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Impact of local religious lore and practice on cultural landscapes, conservation, and sense of place; cultural and environmental consequences of the spatial expansion of world religions; other themes in the geography of religion, including civil religion and environmental theology. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 380D  Environment and Health in Latin America  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Issues related to health, health care, and development in Latin America and the Caribbean, considered with the recognition that health depends on the interactions of social, economic, and political factors as well as on health care services. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 388.4  
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 380E  Geomorphology of the Southwest  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Geography of West Texas and New Mexico; late Cenozoic basalt flows, volcanic ashes, sand sheets, alluvium, paleolake deposits, glacial moraines, colluvium, and soils; integration of landforms and landscape ecology. Includes a ten-day field trip. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester, with additional field hours to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 380F  Field Techniques in Sediments and Soils  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Designed to provide experience in field description of sediments and soils in Central Texas; second half of course focuses on field interpretation of geomorphology and landscape evolution using sedimentary deposits and soils. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 381  Topics in Seminar in Historical Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Topics include Latin America, Anglo-America, Texas, boundaries, settlement origins and patterns, origins of agriculture. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in geography or a related social science, and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 381C  Mapping the Middle East  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Ways in which the Middle East is and has been represented cartographically. Cartographic representations of the region during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the nature and evolution of a distinctive Islamic cartographic tradition; the role and use of maps during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries both in the extension of colonialism and in the creation of modern states; and the contemporary use, applications, and implications of geographic information systems in organizing and representing data spatially.
Pre/Corequisites: Consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 381D  Soil Geomorphology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine three aspects of soil geomorphology: soil formation as it relates to earth surface processes, soils and sustainability, and soil ecosystem interactions. Geography 381D and 396T (Topic: Soil Geomorphology) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 382K  Geo-Archaeology and Environmental History  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Long-term ecology as reconstructed from settlement and land-use histories. Empirical case studies in environmental history from the Mediterranean region, the Near East, and Mesoamerica. Applications to degradation, desertification, sustainability, and global change. Only one of the following may be counted: Anthropology 382N, Geography 356C, 382K. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 382N  
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 383C  Topics in Seminar in Environment and Development  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
A third- and fourth-world perspective on the geographic implications of international development; emphasis on local and global environmental effects. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in geography or a related social science.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Environment and Development in Asia.

Topic 2: Environment and Development in the Middle East.
  

GRG 383C.2  Environment and Development in the Middle East  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 383F  Long-Term Climate Change and History  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Climate and atmospheric science considered with long-term climate and historical and archaeological change over Earth history, focusing on the Quaternary to the future. Geography 383F and 396T (Topic: Long-Term Climate Change and History) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 384C  Watershed Systems and Environmental Management  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The effect of landcover change on drainage basin processes, considered from a geomorphological perspective over varying temporal and spatial scales. Topics may include watershed management, stream channel restoration, fluvial geomorphic processes, and Geographic Information Systems applications to drainage basin processes. Three lecture hours a week for one semester, with additional field hours to be arranged.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 385  Topics in Seminar in Regional Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  
Topic 1: Regional Geography of Latin America. Topics include land and life in Central America; culture, environment, and development in Latin America; recent trends in Latin American geography. Same as: LAS 388.1

Topic 2: Europe. Topics include various aspects of the economic and political geography of individual nations or regions, such as regional differences in Southeast Europe, agricultural developments in European Community countries, trade, viability of individual countries, the changing resources picture in Western and Eastern Europe.

Topic 3: Anglo-America. Topics include agricultural patterns of the United States, comparative regional studies, measurement and delimitation of regions, analysis of population shifts.

Topic 4: Asia. Topics include economic regionalization in Asia, spatial structure of Asian manufacturing, regional discrimination analysis for selected areas and variables in Asia, urban structure in South Asia, developmental activity and spatial change in India.

Topic 5: Regional Geography of the Middle East and North Africa. Topics include developmental activity and spatial change in the Middle East, comparative regional studies. Same as: MES 381.11
  

GRG 385.1  Regional Geography of Latin America  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Topics include land and life in Central America; culture, environment, and development in Latin America; recent trends in Latin American geography.
Same as: LAS 388.1  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 385.2  Europe  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Topics include various aspects of the economic and political geography of individual nations or regions, such as regional differences in Southeast Europe, agricultural developments in European Community countries, trade, viability of individual countries, the changing resources picture in Western and Eastern Europe.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 385.3  Anglo-America  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Topics include agricultural patterns of the United States, comparative regional studies, measurement and delimitation of regions, analysis of population shifts.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 385.4  Asia  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Topics include economic regionalization in Asia, spatial structure of Asian manufacturing, regional discrimination analysis for selected areas and variables in Asia, urban structure in South Asia, developmental activity and spatial change in India.
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 385.5  Regional Geography of the Middle East and North Africa  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Topics include developmental activity and spatial change in the Middle East, comparative regional studies.
Same as: MES 381.11  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 385C  Quaternary Landscapes  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Changing physical and biotic landscapes on Ice Age earth during the past two million years. Reconstruction of Quaternary geomorphic landscapes based on principles and applications of geochronology and paleoclimatology. Geography 335C and 385C may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 385H  Wetlands: Earth System Science and History  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Biophysical, historical, and policy/restoration components of wetlands with global and regional case studies. Geography 385H and 396T (Topic: Wetlands and Floodplains) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 386C  Topics in Seminar in Quaternary Studies  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Issues and new developments in regional and global aspects of Quaternary climates, biota, prehistory, and landscape evolution. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 387C  Political Ecology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An introduction to the history of development theory, economic globalization, studies in the history of science, issues of social justice, and critical studies of environmental history. Geography 387C and 396T (Topic: Political Ecology) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 387D  Globalization, Conflict, and Resistance  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Focuses on a theoretical and empirical understanding of the economic, cultural, political, and policy dimensions of globalization; study of the impact of globalization on people and places; understanding of class and identity conflicts using case studies from Latin America, the United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia; and exploration of theories of social movement with examples from the global North and South. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 387K  Geoarchaeology of Mesoamerica  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine three areas of Mesoamerican geoarchaeology: regional environments, the lines of scientific evidence for current and past environments, and human-environmental interactions from the Pleistocene to the present. Geography 387K and 396T (Topic: Geoarchaeology of Mesoamerica) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 388  Seminar in Resources and Conservation  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Development of the conservation movement, problems of resource misuse, conservation practices, state and national conservation policies, nature and distribution of natural resources. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in geography or a related social science, and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 388C  Indigenous Maps, Architecture, and Enculturation of Colonial Mexico  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The encounter of Spanish and indigenous cultures and ecologies; regional diversity of agricultural, urban, and economic development from 1521 to 1810; ethnic transformation and new socioeconomic configurations. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 388.2  
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 388R  Forest Hydrology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Traces the history of forest hydrology as a science that describes the natural complexities of water movement through forested headwater landscapes and the changes imposed to these processes by disturbances associated with extreme weather events, deforestation, timber harvesting, wildfires, and climate change. Geography 388R and 396T (Topic: Forest Hydrology) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 389P  Hydrogeomorphology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Hydrologic and geomorphologic applications to practical problems in physical geography, geology, civil engineering, ecology, and environmental sciences. Geography 389P and 396T (Topic: Hydro-Geomorphology) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 390  Cultural and Humanistic Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Analysis of human-environment interactions by employing the concepts of place, home, and dwelling. Discussion of humanistic and postmodern geographical research. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 390C  Landscape, Meaning, and Society  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The creation, transformation, and meaning of landscapes within different societies through time. Iconographical analysis of the built environment; impress of belief and ideology on landscape; analysis of nationalistic and authoritarian landscapes; problems of defining and mapping ethnicity; civilizational process and behavior; institutional vandalism, place annihilation, and the destruction and effacement of landscape symbols; cultural and geographical foundations and unintended consequences of global economic integration. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 390K  Issues in Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examines the history, philosophy, and ontology of geography, including its various subfields. Required of all first-year graduate students in geography. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in geography, or graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 390L  Research in Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Builds on topics explored in Geography 390K by focusing on epistemology and research in the field of geography. Students develop plans for research and write a research proposal. Required of all first-year graduate students in geography. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and Geography 390K.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 390S  Environment, Development, and Food Production  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Assessment of various types of nonmechanized agriculture with regard to environmental factors and management techniques. Geography 339K and 390S may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 391C  Dynamics of Earth Systems  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An overview of climate, vegetation, soil, and landform processes. Principles and methodology of physical geography. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 391M  Multivariate Techniques in Spatial Analysis  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The application of multivariate data analytic techniques including regression, factor, canonical, and discriminatory analysis of spatial problems. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing, and Geography 360L or a basic course in inferential statistics.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 392C  The Anthropocene in the Longue Duree  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explore the "Anthropocene" (early to future) from the perspectives of multiple disciplines including geography, anthropology, archaeology, geology, and ecology. Discuss its drivers, its historical roots, and its chronologies. Geography 392C and 396T (Topic: Anthropocene In The Longue Dur) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 192D  Grant Writing in Geography  1 Hour  

1 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Designed to train students to write competitive and successful applications for extramural grants and fellowships. One lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 392M  Seminar in Biodiversity Conservation  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examines issues that involve the conservation and sustainable use of plants, animals, and ecosystems. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 393C  Seminar in Digital Landscapes  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Explores the theoretical and applied issues associated with the acquisition, analysis, simulation, and visualization of digital geographic information, with an emphasis on current trends in landscape characterization, landscape ecology, biodiversity, global change, environmental remote sending, and socio-ecological systems. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 393D  Geographical Information Systems and Ecological Modeling  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Covers the steps involved in conceptualizing and formulating predictive models in a raster geographical information systems environment. Although many of the topics covered are fairly generic and can be applied to any application area in which raster data are used, species distribution models will be used as the example application area. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 493K  Research in Remote Sensing of the Environment  4 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  2 Lab Hours  
Imagery generated by remote sensors applied to research and problem solving in the physical and cultural environment. Three lecture hours and two laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: 0  

GRG 493M  Advanced Remote Sensing and Quantitative Landscape Ecology  4 Hours  

4.5 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Advanced digital image processing of optical satellite imagery for landscape composition and pattern analysis. Three lecture hours and one and one-half discussion hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing, and Geography 493K or the equivalent or consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 394  Seminar in Urban Analysis  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Research seminar in urban issues: demographic, environmental, and transportation modeling; metropolitan finance; and urban social pathologies. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 394F  Feminist Geographies  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Uses a feminist geographic lens to interrogate a range of historical and contemporary geopolitical and geoeconomic issues including (re)productive labor struggles, migration, development, globalization, colonialism, nationalism, militarization and transnational resistance movements. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 394F, 396T (Topic: Feminist Geographies), Women and Gender Studies 393 (Topic: Feminist Geographies). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate Standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 394K  Geographic Information Systems  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
An introduction to the design and use of geographic information systems and to computer-based tools used to store, manage, analyze, and display spatially referenced data. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 394L  Advanced Applications of Information Technology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Advanced issues in computer cartography, geographic information systems, three-dimensional environmental reconstruction and rendering, terrain modeling, animation of environmental processes, and hypertext and multimedia authoring. Interdisciplinary subjects, such as the application of geographic information systems to archaeological research, historical demography, and habitat mapping and analysis. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 395  Cultural Adaptation and Change  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
A graduate-level introduction to cultural behavior, adaptation, evolution and transformation, with emphasis on demography, diffusion, migration, ethnicity, and institutions. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: ANT 395K  
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in anthropology, geography, or a related field, and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 395D  Latin American Cultures, Environment, and Development  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Exploration through Latin American examples of issues of cultural identity and territory, adaptive strategies, environmental impact, conservation, cultural survival, parks and people, and sustainable development. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: LAS 388.3  
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 395K  Getting and Staying Funded  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Written, oral, and multi-media skills for improved success in academic and non-academic professional arenas including, but not limited to, grant and thesis proposal writing, CV and job application writing, audience-targeted formal and informal oral presentations, multimedia production (e.g., poster, video), and career timeline planning. Only one of the following may be counted: Geography 395K, 396T (Topic: Advanced Proposal Writing Bootcamp), 396T (Topic: Strategic Communication/Advanced Proposal Writing). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate Standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 396  Techniques in Pollen Analysis  3 Hours  

2 Lecture Hours  4 Lab Hours  
Field sampling, laboratory processing, microscopy, pollen grain morphology, pollen counting, and data-handling techniques. Two lecture hours and four laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 396C  Seminar in Current Geographic Research  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Review and discussion of recent research projects across the field of geography; includes analysis of theories and methodologies, and various methods for presenting results. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in geography or a related field, and consent of instructor.  
Grading: Credit No Credit  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 396K  Quaternary Palynology  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Methods, principles, and applications of pollen analysis to vegetational, paleoenvironmental, and ethnobotanical reconstructions. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 396T  Topics in Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Some topics may require additional field trips.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 197, 297, 397  Conference Course in Geography  1-3 Hours  

1,2,3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Supervised study and research. For every hour of credit earned, the equivalent of one lecture hour a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of supervising professor.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 698  Thesis  6 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for two semesters.
Pre/Corequisites: For 698A, graduate standing in geography and consent of the graduate adviser; for 698B, Geography 698A.  
Grading: Credit No Credit  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Master's  

GRG 398R  Master's Report  3 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option. The equivalent of three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing in geography and consent of the graduate adviser.  
Grading: Credit No Credit  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Master's  

GRG 398T  Supervised Teaching in Geography  3 Hours  

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Teaching under the close supervision of the course instructor; group meetings with the instructor, individual consultations, and reports throughout the teaching period. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and appointment as a teaching assistant.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Doctoral  

GRG 399W, 699W, 999W  Dissertation  3,6,9 Hours  

0 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Pre/Corequisites: Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree.  
Grading: Credit No Credit  
Repeatable for credit: Yes (Unlimited)  
Academic Level: Doctoral