Provides an academically supervised opportunity for graduate-level geography majors to work in public and private organizations on advanced projects related to geographic theory and their career goals. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Instructor consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Critically reviews current theories of climatic variability based on analysis of the different physical processes affecting climate. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Applies research methods to selected problems. Topics vary with instructor. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Discusses selected topics in current climatological literature. Specific themes vary. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Critically examines the politics of human-environment relationships across cultures and societies. Focuses on environmental degradation, change and management from the perspectives including political economy, cultural politics, STS and post structural theory. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: 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. Department enforced prereqs., GEOG 4093 or GEOL 4093 or GEOG 5093 or GEOL 5093. Recommended prereq., GEOL 5240. Same as EBIO 6440. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Department enforced prereqs., GEOG 4023 or GEOG 5023. Requisites: 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. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Offers independent research for doctoral students only. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Instructor consent required. Requisites: 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. Instructor consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
