Courses

Discusses selected topics in current climatological literature. Specific themes vary. Restricted to graduate students. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Critically examines cross-cultural experience with adjustments to natural hazards and political management of resource exploitation. Restricted to graduate students. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Theory and practical field measurements for validation of airborne and spaceborne spectral image acquisition. Emphasizes radiative scattering properties of soil, vegetation, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Also focuses on characterization and calibration of instrumentation to measure these properties. Restricted to graduate students. Prereqs., GEOL/GEOG 4093/5093. Recommended prereq., GEOL 5240. Same as EBIO 6440.

Considers in detail history and methodology of the field, including an analysis of selected systematic topics such as frontiers and boundaries, international rivers, conflicting claims to territory, and electoral geography. Restricted to graduate students. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

An in-depth introduction to formal Demography. In addition to learning the basic demographic tools used nowadays in fertility, marriage, mortality, migration, and forecasting/projections, it also looks at some potential links between formal and statistical demographic work that would enable the student to apply some of the methods learnt in an econometric or multivariate setting. Prereqs., GEOG 4023/5023 or equivalent. Restricted to graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Explores various geographic topics emphasizing the concept of culture. Emergence of several points of view in the development of cultural geography. Restricted to graduate students. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

Offers independent research for doctoral students only. Restricted to graduate students. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

All doctoral students must register for not fewer than 30 hours of dissertation credit as part of the requirements for the degree. For a detailed discussion of doctoral dissertation credit, refer to the Graduate School section. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.