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.