Geography (GEOG)
GEOG 1 Global Environmental Change 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Laboratory per week for 6 weeks.
The global pattern of climate, landforms, vegetation, and soils. The relative importance of natural and human-induced change, global warming, forest clearance, accelerated soil erosion, glacial/postglacial climate change and its consequences.
Instructor: Byrne
GEOG 4 World Peoples and Cultural Environments 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Historical and contemporary cultural-environmental patterns. The development and spread of cultural adaptations, human use of resources, transformation and creation of human environments.
GEOG 10 World Regions, Peoples, and States 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course will provide a framework for recognizing and analyzing the major distinctive regions of the world in comparative context. The most important interrelations between environment, economy, ethnicity, and the national identity and viability of states will be explored.
Instructor: Sayre
GEOG 20 Globalization 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
How and why are geographical patterns of employment, production, and consumption unstable in the contemporary world? What are the consequences of NAFTA, an expanded European Community, and post-colonial migration flows? How is global restructuring culturally reworked locally and nationally?
GEOG N20 Globalization 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Global economics and politics are undergoing a revolution. Transnational enterprises, international trade, and digitized finance are merging its formerly separate national economies. New regional and transnational treaties and institutions, from the EU and NAFTA to the IMF, the WTO and the World Bank, are arising to regulate the new global economy. Power is being transferred from national states to these institutions, not always smoothly or in predictable ways. This course is about this medley.
GEOG 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 30 The Ocean World 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Introduction to the cultural and physical geography of the world's oceans. Ecology of ocean biota and environments. History and geography of ocean peoples, cultures, and resource use. Problems confronting ocean peoples and environments. New approaches to saving the oceans.
GEOG 31 Justice, Nature, and the Geographies of Identity 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
The intersection of nature, identity, and politics pepper the pages of newspapers almost every day from stories of toxic waste sites, crime, genetic engineering to indigenous struggles, and terrorist tendencies. In all these and many other cases, ideas of race, class, and gender intersect with ideas of nature and geography in often tenacious and troubling ways. Our approach will be to understand these traditional ideas of environmental justice as well as to examine less traditional sites of environmental justice such as the laboratory, the war zone, the urban mall, and the courtroom.
Instructor: Kosek
GEOG C32/DEV STD C10 Introduction to Development 4 Units
Department: Geography; Development Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks. 10 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course is designed as an introduction to comparative development. The course will be a general service course, as well as a prerequisite for the upper division 100 series. It is assumed that students enrolled in 10 know little about life in the Third World countries and are unfamiliar with the relevant theory in political economy of development and underdevelopment. The course will be structured around three critical concepts: land, labor, and work.
Instructor: Watts
GEOG 35 Global Ecology and Development 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Problems of Third World poverty and development have come to be seen as inseparable from environmental health and sustainability. The course explores the global and interconnected character of environment and development in the less developed world. Drawing on case studies of the environmental problems of the newly industrializing states, food problems, and environmental security in Africa, and the global consequences of tropical deforestation in Amazonia and carbon dioxide emissions in China, this course explores how growth and stagnation are linked to problems of environmental sustainability.
Instructor: Watts
GEOG 37 The Politics of Science and Technology 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course examines how shifting understandings of science and technology have radically remade some of our most basic social and biological categories and concepts. The course explores the field of science and technology studies. In particular, students will explore formations and understandings of truth, objectivity, universality of science and technology, and the consequences of these cultural formations in contemporary debates around the world.
Instructor: Kosek
GEOG 40 Introduction to Earth System Science 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
The goals of this introductory Earth System Science course are to achieve a scientific understanding of important problems in global environmental change and to learn how to analyze a complex system using scientific methods. Earth System Science is an interdisciplinary field that describes the cycling of energy and matter between the different spheres (atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and lithosphere) of the earth system. In addition to the themes of climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and biodiversity loss, we will also discuss air and water pollution, fisheries depletion, and science in public policy.
Instructors: Chiang, Cuffey, Rhew
GEOG 50AC California 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
California had been called "the great exception" and "America, only more so." Yet few of us pay attention to its distinctive traits and to its effects beyond our borders. California may be "a state of mind," but it is also the most dynamic place in the most powerful country in the world, and would be the 5th largest economy if it were a country. Its wealth has been built on mining, agriculture, industry, trade, and finance. Natural abundance and geographic advantage have played their parts, but the state's greatest resource has been its wealth and diversity of people, who have made it a center of technological and cultural innovation from Hollywood to Silicon Valley. Yet California has a dark side of exploitation and racialization of many peoples, and of violent efforts to exclude immigrants and control the poor. This course pursues classic themes in geography, such as regional difference, the transformation of nature, the space of cities, and the changing landscape.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Formerly known as 150AC. Instructor: Walker
GEOG 51 Political Economy of Development in East Asia 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course focuses on the political economy of development in East and Southeast Asia. Topics include the colonial histories and legacies in East Asia, the transition of the development state, transformation of former socialist economies, technology exchanges and transfer across the Pacific, new generations of women workers in the global economy, the politics of deforestation, and Asian financial crises and recovery. Cases used to illustrate the development issues in East Asia include China, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand.
Instructor: Hsing
GEOG C55/NE STUD C26 Introduction to Central Asia 3 Units
Department: Geography; Near Eastern Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course will introduce the student not only to ancient and modern Central Asia, but also to the role played by the region in the shaping of the history of neighboring regions and regimes. The course will outline the history, languages, ethnicities, religions, and archaeology of the region and will acquaint the student with the historical foundations of some of the political, social and economic challenges for contemporary post-Soviet Central Asian republics.
GEOG 70AC The Urban Experience 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of mandatory discussion section per week.
We will track the historical evolution of the American city. We'll look at the economics of city life, at the organization of metropolitan political power, and at the aesthetics of the urban scene--to see how the core cultural themes of American urban life have endured over time while continuously adjusting to new circumstances. Our approach is to focus on major themes in urban life and to show how various groups have had different kinds of experiences in these urban realms.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Instructor: Johns
GEOG 80 Digital Worlds: An Introduction to Geospatial Technologies 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: Basic computer literacy (e.g., Excel or similar)
An introduction to the increasingly diverse range of geospatial technologies and tools including but not limited to geographical information systems (GIS). Via a mix of lecture and lab-based instruction, students will develop knowledge and skills in web-mapping and GIS. How these tools are used to represent fundamental geographic concepts, and the wider socioeconomic context of these technologies will also be explored.
Instructor: O'Sullivan
GEOG C82/EPS C82/INTEGBI C82 Oceans 3 Units
Department: Geography; Earth and Planetary Science; Integrative Biology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 3.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course offers multidisciplinary approach to begin answering the question "Why are oceans important to us?" Upon a physical, chemical, and geologic base, we introduce the alien world of sea life, the importance of the ocean to the global carbon cycle, and the principles of ecology with a focus on the important concept of energy flow through food webs. Lectures expand beyond science to include current topics as diverse as music, movies, mythology, biomechanics, policy, and trade.
GEOG 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged. 1 to 4 hours of group study (or fieldwork) per week.
Lectures and small group discussion focusing on topics of interest that vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 109 Prehistoric Agriculture 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Agricultural origins and dispersals in the light of recent biological and archaeological evidence.
Instructor: Byrne
GEOG C110/ISF C101 Economic Geography of the Industrial World 4 Units
Department: Geography; Interdisciplinary Studies Field Maj
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 20 or prior courses in economic or regional development strongly suggested.
Industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth in the global North. Locational patterns in manufacturing, retailing trade, and finance. Geographic dynamics of technical change, employment, business organization, resource use, and divisions of labor. Property, labor, and social conflict as geographic forces. Local, national, and continental rivalries in a global economy, and challenges to U.S. dominance.
Students will receive no credit for C110 after taking 110 or Interdisciplinary Studies 100A. Instructor: Walker
GEOG C112/DEV STD C100 History of Development and Underdevelopment 4 Units
Department: Geography; Development Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Historical review of the development of world economic systems and the impact of these developments on less advanced countries. Course objective is to provide a background against which to understand and assess theoretical interpretations of development and underdevelopment.
Instructor: Hart
GEOG 113 The Geography of the Global Food Economy 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course will examine the historical development and contemporary restructuring of the global food economy.
GEOG 123 Postcolonial Geographies 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Postcolonial studies focus on how processes of colonialism/imperialism continue even after the formal dissolution of empire. A central argument of this course is that critical human geography can make important contributions to understanding the interconnections between forces at play in different parts of the world. Drawing on concepts of space, place, culture, power, and difference, its purpose is to provide a set of tools for grappling with the conditions in which we find ourselves, and for thinking about the possibilities for social change.
Instructor: Hart
GEOG 125 The American City 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
The American city, palimpsest of a nation. It all comes together in the modern metropolis: economy, society, politics, culture, and geography. Cities as the economic engines of capitalism, centers of industry, finance, business, consumption, and innovation. Cities as political powers and political pawns, and the government of cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas. Cities as magnificent constructs, built of concrete, credit and land rents, from skyscrapers to housing tracts, freeways to shopping malls, airports to open spaces. Cities as landscapes of social division by class, race and nationality, and the turf battles from mean ghetto streets to the hideaways of privilege. Cities as cultural hearths, places of high art and popular entertainment, style and monumentality, rebellion and desire. The geography of civic upheaval, as urban space is constantly remade by growth, economic shifts, building cycles, land speculation, gentrification and redevelopment.
Instructors: Johns, Walker
GEOG 130 Food and the Environment 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
How do human populations organize and alter natural resources and ecosystems to produce food? The role of agriculture in the world economy, national development, and environmental degradation in the Global North and the Global South. The origins of scarcity and abundance, population growth and migration, hunger, and poverty.
Instructors: Sayre, Watts
GEOG N130 Food and the Environment 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
How do human populations organize and alter natural resources and ecosystems to produce food? The role of agriculture in the world economy, national development, and environmental degradation in the Global North and the Global South. The origins of scarcity and abundance, population growth and migration, hunger, and poverty.
GEOG 132 Environmental Politics and Political Economy in the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course will trace and analyze the development of environmental politics in the United States between the late 19th century and the present. The major goal of the course will be to place these and other perspectives within a broader framework by understanding the evolution of environmentalism in relation to major periods of the political economy of the nation as a whole. The course will focus particularly on the performance of the national economy and current thinking about the proper role of government. We will examine the development of environmentalism as a social movement; the major milestones of environmental legislation, administration, and regulation in the U.S.; the importance of political-economic relations beyond the U.S. in shaping these; and the future of environmentalism.
GEOG 137 Top Ten Global Environmental Problems 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Geography 40 and Environmental Science 10 or equivalent.
Conceptualizing global environmental problems is difficult because of the complexity of the issues, the magnitude of the problems, and the different time scales of action versus reaction. These issues apply both to the natural earth system as well as human societies. This course will examine the scientific basis underlying the largest environmental threats, and then reframe the issues to explore the societal basis of those problems. Class is not open to freshmen.
Instructor: Rhew
GEOG 138 Global Environmental Politics 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Political factors affecting ecological conditions in the Third World. Topics include environmental degradation, migrations, agricultural production, role of international aid, divergence in standard of living, political power, participation and decision making, access to resources, global environmental policies and treaties, political strife and war.
GEOG C139/EPS C181 Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics 3 Units
Department: Geography; Earth and Planetary Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Mathematics 53, 54; Physics 7A-7B-7C.
This course examines the processes that determine the structure and circulation of the Earth's atmosphere. The approach is deductive rather than descriptive: to figure out the properties and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere based on the laws of physics and fluid dynamics. Topics will include interaction between radiation and atmospheric composition; the role of water in the energy and radiation balance; governing equations for atmospheric motion, mass conservation, and thermodynamic energy balance; geostrophic flow, quasigeostrophic motion, baroclinic instability and dynamics of extratropical cyclones.
Formerly known as 144. Instructors: Chiang, Fung
GEOG 140A Physical Landscapes: Process and Form 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4.5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or equivalent.
Understanding the physical characteristics of the Earth's surface, and the processes active on it, is essential for maintaining the long-term health of the environment, and for appreciating the unique, defining qualities of geographic regions. In this course, we build an understanding of global tectonics, rivers, hillslopes, and coastlines and discover how these act in concert with the underlying geologic framework to produce the magnificent landscapes of our planet. Through our review of formative processes, we learn how physical landscapes change and are susceptible to human modifications, which are often unintentional.
Formerly known as 140. Instructor: Cuffey
GEOG 142 Climate Dynamics 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week and 1 or 2 computer laboratory projects.
This course examines how various components of the climate system--the atmosphere, ocean, land, and cryosphere--interact in determining its observed state. Covered topics: observations of the climate system; the earth's energy balance; atmospheric radiative transfer; the surface energy balance; the hydrologic cycle; atmospheric circulation and its relation to the energy balance; the role of the ocean and the cryosphere. Additional topics, as time permits, will cover climate change, natural and anthropogenic; and computer modeling of climate.
Instructor: Chiang
GEOG 143 Global Change Biogeochemistry 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 1A or equivalent.
The field of biogeochemistry offers an interdisciplinary approach to modern global environmental issues, such as climate change feedback effects, stratospheric ozone loss, oxidation capacity of the atmosphere, land use change, and marine ecosystem health. Earth is a complex system where the transformation and flow of chemicals and energy within and between biomes have ramifications for life on this planet. The overall theme of this course will be to explore the imprint of the biota (including humans) on the chemistry of the ocean, land, and atmosphere. This course will explore the biogeochemical cycles of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine biomes. In addition, the global cycles of environmentally important elements and gases will be explored.
Instructor: Rhew
GEOG 144 Principles of Meteorology 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Weather development in relation to different scales of atmospheric circulation including analysis and forecasting with examples from the Northeastern Pacific-Western North American area.
GEOG C145/EPS C146 Geological Oceanography 4 Units
Department: Geography; Earth and Planetary Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
The tectonics and morphology of the sea floor, the geologic processes in the deep and shelf seas, and the climatic record contained in deep-sea sediments. The course will cover sources and composition of marine sediments, sea-level change, ocean circulation, paleoenvironmental reconstruction using fossils, imprint of climatic zonation on marine sediments, marine stratigraphy, and ocean floor resources.
Formerly known as Geology C145. Instructor: Ingram
GEOG C146/EPS C100/INTEGBI C100 Communicating Ocean Science 4 Units
Department: Geography; Earth and Planetary Science; Integrative Biology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2.5 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 2 hours of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: One course in introductory biology, geology, chemistry, physics, or marine science required and interest in ocean science; junior, senior, or graduate standing; consent of instructor required for sophomores.
For undergraduates interested in improving their ability to communicate their scientific knowledge by teaching ocean science in elementary schools or science centers/aquariums. The course will combine instruction in inquiry-based teaching methods and learning pedagogy with six weeks of supervised teaching experience in a local school classroom or the Lawrence Hall of Science with a partner. Thus, students will practice communicating scientific knowledge and receive mentoring on how to improve their presentations.
Instructor: Ingram
GEOG 148 Biogeography 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or a lower division course in Biology or Earth Science.
Changing distribution patterns of plants and animals on a variety of spatial and temporal scales. The effects of "continental drift," Pleistocene climatic change, agricultural origins and dispersals. The ecology of invasions and extinctions. Island biogeography.
Instructor: Byrne
GEOG 155 Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Latin America 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5.5 hours of lecture per week for 8 week session; 7.5 hours of lecture per week for 6 week session.
From the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to Cuba and Central America, Latin America has produced some of the most important social movements of the 20th century. This course will explore the origins, courses, and outcomes of revolution in Latin America. In-depth case studies will review the changing conceptions of revolution and attempt to identify conditions that explain the emergence and limitations of past revolutionary movements in the region. Finally, the course will explore the current options for Latin American social movements within a rapidly changing global economic order.
GEOG C157/CHICANO C161 Central American Peoples and Cultures 4 Units
Department: Geography; Chicano Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A comparative survey of the peoples and cultures of the seven countries of the Central American Isthmus from a historical and contemporary perspective.
Instructor: Manz
GEOG 159AC/EDUC 186AC/ETH STD 159AC The Southern Border 4 Units
Department: Geography; Education; Ethnic Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
The southern border--from California to Florida--is the longest physical divide between the First and Third Worlds. This course will examine the border as a distinct landscape where North-South relations take on a specific spatial and cultural dimension, and as a region which has been the testing ground for such issues as free trade, immigration, and ethnic politics.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Instructors: Manz, Shaiken
GEOG C160A/AMERSTD C112A/ENV DES C169A American Cultural Landscapes, 1600 to 1900 4 Units
Department: Geography; American Studies; Environmental Design
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Introduces ways of seeing and interpreting American histories and cultures, as revealed in everyday built surroundings-- houses, highways, farms, factories, stores, recreation areas, small towns, city districts, and regions. Encourages students to read landscapes as records of past and present social relations and to speculate for themselves about cultural meaning.
Instructor: Groth
GEOG C160B/AMERSTD C112B/ENV DES C169B American Cultural Landscapes, 1900 to Present 4 Units
Department: Geography; American Studies; Environmental Design
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Introduces ways of seeing and interpreting American histories and cultures, as revealed in everyday built surroundings--homes, highways, farms, factories, stores, recreation areas, small towns, city districts, and regions. Encourages students to read landscapes as records of past and present social relations, and to speculate for themselves about cultural meaning.
Instructor: Groth
GEOG 163 Southeast Asia 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course is a political, economic, and historical geography of mainland and insular Southeast Asia. We will discuss the region's physical geography, its cultural unities and differences, the origin of agriculture and the emergence of states, its classical period, the effects of colonialism, and its contemporary economics and geopolitics.
GEOG 164 The Geography of Economic Development in China 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course focuses on four issues in contemporary China: (1) the transformation of the socialist state, (2) the politics of resource struggle, (3) the interplay of gender and class in the transitional society, and (4) Chinese Diaspora and business networks in the context of globalization. Each of these issues will be examined with reference to theories of development and histories of China. We will also take a critical approach in our exploration of China's development. This is a lecture course designed mainly for upper level undergraduate students with preliminary background in East Asian-Chinese studies or development studies or both.
Instructor: Hsing
GEOG 170 Special Topics in Geography 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course is designed to provide a vehicle for instructors to address a topic with which they are especially concerned; usually more restricted than the subject matter of a regular lecture course. Topics will vary with instructor. See departmental announcements.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 171 Special Topics in Physical Geography 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course is designed to provide a vehicle for instructors to address a topic in physical geography with which they are especially concerned; usually more restricted than the subject matter of a regular lecture course. Topics will vary with instructor. See departmental announcements.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 172 Topics in Social Geography 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
This course is designed to provide a vehicle for instructors to address a topic in social geography with which they are especially concerned; usually more restricted than the subject matter of a regular lecture course. Topics will vary with instructor. See departmental announcements.
Course may be repeated for credit with different instructor or different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 173A Cross-listed Topics in Human Geography 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course is designed to accommodate cross-listed courses offered through other departments, the content of which is applicable to geography majors. Content and unit values vary from course to course.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 175 Undergraduate Seminars 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
A reading and research seminar for undergraduate students. Topics will vary with instructor.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 180 Field Methods for Physical Geography 5 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture per week and 6 weekend field trips.
Prerequisites: 1 or equivalent, and consent of instructor.
Field introduction to geomorphology, biogeography, and California landscapes. Students conduct field experiments and mapping exercises. Results of field projects are analyzed and presented as a technical report. Oral field reports are required for some trips.
GEOG 181 Urban Field Study 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of lecture and 9 hours (1 day) of fieldwork per week.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Introduction to the metropolitan Bay Area: its history, economy, social makeup. Evolution of urban landscapes and spatial patterns. Social justice and conflict in the city. Business and industry location, real estate and housing, producing and consuming in the city. Regional characteristics of class, race, gender and politics.
Instructor: Walker
GEOG 182 Field Study of Buildings and Cities 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks. Lectures will be given on sites as part of field trips.
Traveling on foot and by BART—and with on-site lectures and discussions about architecture, urban design, cultural landscapes, and spatial patterns in Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and Pleasanton—students in this course will explore the historical geography of the American city since 1850. Enrollment limited to 25 students. No pre-requisites. Both undergraduate and graduate students are welcome.
Course Objectives: The goal of this course is to introduce ways of seeing various building types, street and block forms, land use patterns, and other cultural features of the Bay Area as records of social relations and of repeating processes of American geographical history: cyclical periods of investment and disinvestment, migration and immigration, economic production and consumption, connection and disconnection, reinforcement of individual and social identities, as well as day-to-day maintenance and care
Instructor: Groth
GEOG 183 Cartographic Representation 5 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 4 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Problems in the representation of quantitative and qualitative data on thematic maps.
GEOG 186 Map Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5.5 hours of lecture/laboratory per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of lecture/laboratory per week for 6 weeks.
The broad field of mapping will be explored. Students will learn to read, analyze, critique, and draw maps by both traditional and computer methods. Class enrollment is limited.
Instructor: Semans
GEOG 187 Advanced Cartographic Methods: GIS for Cartographers 5 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours lecture and 1 hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisites: 183 or C188 (or other GIS course) strongly recommended.
Advanced cartographic methods will focus primarily on data acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and representation using GIS software and vector-based illustration software, in the service of geographical analysis. Some field research will be required.
Instructor: Jensen
GEOG C188/LD ARCH C188 Geographic Information Systems 4 Units
Department: Geography; Landscape Architecture
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Some computer experience.
This course introduces the student to the rapidly expanding field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It addresses both theory and application and provides the student with a dynamic analytical framework within which temporal and spatial data and information is gathered, integrated, interpreted, and manipulated. It emphasizes a conceptual appreciation of GIS and offers an opportunity to apply some of those concepts to contemporary geographical and planning issues.
Formerly known as C188X. Instructor: Radke
GEOG H195A Honors Course 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged. Hours to be arranged. Hours to be arranged. Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Admission to Honors Program.
Required for Honors in Geography. Students will write a thesis. One or two semesters, at the instructor's option; if two semesters, credit and grade to be awarded upon completion of the sequence.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG H195B Honors Course 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged. Hours to be arranged. Hours to be arranged. Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Admission to Honors Program.
Required for Honors in Geography. Students will write a thesis. One or two semesters, at the instructor's option; if two semesters, credit and grade to be awarded upon completion of the sequence.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 197 Field Study in Geography 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Supervised experience in application of geography in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 7.5 hours of Directed group study per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 7.5 hours of Directed group study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 199 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 1 to 5 hour of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 1 to 5 hour of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Senior standing. Overall GPA in major of 3.00.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 200A Contemporary Geographic Thought 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Required of all first year graduate students.
The class has several goals. One is to give students a sound basis upon which to judge arguments. A second is to help students see, think, and write geographically--that is, to interpret the making and meaning of our physical and human landscapes. A third goal is to introduce students to the tremendous range of geographical inquiry and what is probably the major strength of geography as a form of thought: to wit, making links across space, among peoples, and between humans and the earth. Sequence begins in the fall.
Instructor: Johns
GEOG 200B Contemporary Geographic Thought 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Required of all first-year graduate students.
The class has several goals. One is to give students a sound basis upon which to judge arguments. A second is to help students see, think, and write geographically--that is, to interpret the making and meaning of our physical and human landscapes. A third goal is to introduce students to the tremendous range of geographical inquiry and what is probably the major strength of geography as a form of thought: to wit, making links across space, among peoples, and between humans and the earth. Sequence begins in the fall.
Instructor: Johns
GEOG 203 Nature and Culture: Social Theory, Social Practice, and the Environment 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The relationship between societies and natural environments lies at the heart of geographical inquiry and has gained urgency as the rate and scale of human transformation of nature have grown, often outstripping our understanding of causes and effects. The physical side of environmental science has received most of the emphasis in university research, but the social basis of environmental change must be studied as well. Recent developments in social theory have much to offer environmental studies, while the latter has, in turn, exploded many formerly safe assumptions about how and what the social sciences and humanities ought to be preoccupied with. This seminar allows students to explore some classics in environmental thought as well as recent contributions that put the field on the forefront of social knowledge today.
Instructor: Sayre
GEOG 214 Development Theories and Practices 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of consultation per week.
This course examines how concepts and theories of "development" have been produced, maintained, used, and challenged in different regions of the world economy. It will offer a framework for analyzing how changing and contending models of development both reflect and shape social processes and practices.
Instructor: Hart
GEOG 215 Seminar in Comparative and International Development 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of seminar and 1 hour of consultation per week.
This seminar is designed for students intending to do research on topics of comparative development, the organization of work, and access to resources in different regions of the world economy. Participants in the seminar will be expected to write a research proposal and to participate actively in reading and responding to each other's work.
Instructors: Hart, Hsing
GEOG 220 Capital, Value, and Scale 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
This seminar focuses on major works in political economy and social theory concerning capitalism, human action, and space-time. First we grapple with what "value" means in volume 1 of , paying particular attention to issues of historical specificity, abstract labor time, and the "value theory of labor," then we spatialize the argument by a close reading of David Harvey's classic, Next, we look at attempts to understand capital's relation to human action and other forms of value, specifically in anthropology and the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Finally, we take up the issue of scale in hope of formulating a coherent conceptual framework for integrating across scales, from the human-body (or even smaller scales) up to global economic, cultural, and ecological processes.
Instructor: Sayre
GEOG C241/EPS C242 Glaciology 4 Units
Department: Geography; Earth and Planetary Science
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of consultation per week.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
A review of the mechanics of glacial systems, including formation of ice masses, glacial flow mechanisms, subglacial hydrology, temperature and heat transport, global flow, and response of ice sheets and glaciers. We will use this knowledge to examine glaciers as geomorphologic agents and as participants in climate change.
Formerly known as 241. Instructor: Cuffey
GEOG 244 Complex Environmental Systems 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Applying a complex-systems approach to environmental problems can yield valuable insight into risk, potential drivers of change, likely outcomes of perturbation, and whether it is even possible to forecast or manage system behavior. This course explores complex-systems theory and applications in geography, ecology, and earth science. Case studies include climate change, coupled human-environmental systems, vegetation community change, river networks, forest fires, earthquakes, and peatlands.
Instructor: Larsen
GEOG 246 Geomorphology of California 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Seminar. 2 major field trips of 4 days' duration, each with 12-hour days.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in either geography or earth and planetary science and consent of instructor. Undergraduates need consent of instructor and 140A-140B or 140B and Earth and Planetary Science 117.
Numerous tectonic and Earth surface processes act in concert to produce the physical landscapes of our planet. This course examines three major regions of California (the Sierra Nevada, the Basin and Range, and the Southern Coast Ranges) as specific case studies for demonstrating how landscapes can be understood using concepts from tectonics, geomorphology, and geography. Two four-day field trips and preparatory readings for them will illuminate the integrated action of tectonics, geologic structure and lithology, drainage network development, hydraulics, soil production, hillslope transport, fluvial transport, aeolian transport, and glacial/perigicial processes. A term project will be required.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Cuffey
GEOG 249 Spatiotemporal Data Analysis in the Climate Sciences 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: A first course in linear algebra. Access to MATLAB.
This graduate seminar teaches objective techniques for spatiotemporal data analysis focusing primarily on Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis and its derivatives. The context will be climate data analysis, but the technique is readily translatable to other fields. The goal is to get the student sufficiently comfortable with the technique so they can use it in their research.
Instructor: Chiang
GEOG C250/ESPM C255 Seminar in Sociology of Forest and Wildland Resources 3 Units
Department: Geography; Environ Sci, Policy, and Management
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Individual projects and group discussions concerning social constraints to, and effects of, natural resource planning and management. Application of sociological theories to problems of managing wildland ecosystems. Students will examine topics of individual interest related to the management of wildland uses. Enrollment limited.
Instructor: Fortmann
GEOG 251 Topics in Cultural Geography 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar and 1 hour of consultation per week.
Research seminar on selected topics in cultural geography.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Groth, Walker
GEOG 252 Topics in Economic Geography 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Research seminar on selected topics in economic geography.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Hsing, Shaiken, Walker, Watts
GEOG 253 Topics in Urban Geography 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar and 1 hour of consultation per week.
Research seminar on selected topics in urban geography.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructors: Groth, Walker
GEOG 255 Topics in Political Geography 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar and 1 hour of consultation per week.
Research seminar on selected topics in political geography.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Hart
GEOG 257 Topics in Climatology 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar and 1 hour of consultation per week.
Research seminar on selected topics in climatology.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Chiang
GEOG 260 Topics in Biogeography 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar and 1 hour of consultation per week.
Research seminar on selected topics in biogeography.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Byrne
GEOG 280 Advanced Field Study in Geography 3 - 7 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture and 11 hours of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks.
All day Saturday. Each additional unit requires four hours of field work per week. Extended field project required.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 282 Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Geographical Research 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of directed practicum per week.
This course introduces graduate students to a range of applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in geographical research, and theoretical considerations of the meaning, strengths, and limitations of the methods. We first review, in general, how geographic variables can be represented in a database. This leads to an extended discussion of the application of GIS methods to a variety of problems in physical and human geography, using topographic data, census data, and other sources, manipulated by widely used GIS software. Students build skills and understanding through work on example problems. Finally, the broad question of how GIS represents geographic variables, and the strengths and limitations of the technique, are re-visited using perspective gained from examples. Students will be expected to elaborate these issues in the context of their own research programs.
GEOG 295 Geography Colloquium 1 Unit
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Required of all graduate students not yet advanced to candidacy.
Invited lectures on current research and field work.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 296 Directed Dissertation Research 1 - 12 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Advancement to Ph.D. candidacy.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG N296 Directed Dissertation Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Advancement to Ph.D. candidacy.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 297 Directed Field Studies 1 - 6 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 6 hour of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Open to students directly engaged in field studies.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 298 Directed Study for Graduate Students 1 - 6 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Special tutorial or seminar on selected topics not covered by available courses or seminars.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 299 Individual Research 1 - 8 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Individual research for graduate students in consultation with staff member.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG N299 Individual Research 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 1 to 4 hour of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Individual research for graduate students in consultation with staff member.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG 301 Professional Training: Teaching Practice 1 - 4 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
GEOG C301/EPS C301/INTEGBI C215 Communicating Ocean Science 4 Units
Department: Geography; Earth and Planetary Science; Integrative Biology
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2.5 hours of Lecture, 1 hour of Discussion, and 2 hours of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: One course in introductory biology, geology, chemistry, physics, or marine science required and interest in ocean science.
For graduate students interested in improving their ability to communicate their scientific knowledge by teaching ocean science in elementary schools or science centers/aquariums. The course will combine instruction in inquiry-based teaching methods and learning pedagogy with six weeks of supervised teaching experience in a local school classroom or the Lawrence Hall of Science with a partner. Thus, students will practice communicating scientific knowledge and receive mentoring on how to improve their presentations.
Instructor: Ingram
GEOG C302/ESPM C302 Effective Scientific Communication 3 Units
Department: Geography; Environ Sci, Policy, and Management
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
This course will introduce methods of organizing and delivering oral presentations, initating and organizing manuscripts, and utilizing digital communication methods, such as web-based media. Students will develop effective communication techniques through in-class experience. This class will have an emphasis on the sciences but will be useful and open to graduate students of all disciplines.
Instructors: Resh, Rhew
GEOG 601 Individual Study for Master's Students 1 - 6 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: For candidates for master's degree.
Individual study for comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the field adviser.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for master's degree.
GEOG N601 Individual Study for Master's Students 1 - 3 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 to 5.5 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 7.5 hours of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: For candidates for master's degree.
Individual study for comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the field adviser.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for master's degree.
GEOG 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students 1 - 6 Units
Department: Geography
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: For candidates for Ph.D.
Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course does not satisfy unit or residence requirements for doctoral degree.
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