Geography

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GEOG N1 Global Environmental Change 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session
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.
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Geography N1 after completing Geography 1. A deficient grade in Geography 1 maybe removed by taking Geography N1.<BR/>

Hours & Format

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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GEOG 4 World Peoples and Cultural Environments 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2013 Second 6 Week Session
Historical and contemporary cultural-environmental patterns. The development and spread of cultural adaptations, human use of resources, transformation and creation of human environments.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of laboratory per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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GEOG N4 World Peoples and Cultural Environments 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
Historical and contemporary cultural-environmental patterns. The development and spread of cultural adaptations, human use of resources, transformation and creation of human environments.
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Geography N4 after completing Geography 4. A deficient grade in Geography 4 maybe removed by taking Geography N4.<BR/>

Hours & Format

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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GEOG 10 Worldings - Regions, Peoples and States 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
Geography is a way of thinking deeply and expansively about the world we inhabit and this course is designed to transform how you think about, understand and engage in its makings and re-makings. Ideas central to the field of geography such as space, nature, empire and globalization animate the histories and politics of each of these issues and many other cases. Our approach will not be to simply learn about the regions of the world, but to think critically and geographically about how region's, peoples and states and other foundational concepts have come into being and how they might be otherwise.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Student Learning Outcomes: ● Discuss how some of the most consequential forces of modernity organized people into populations; lands into territory; and nations into states.
● Discuss the violent and contested history surrounding the organization of regions, parks, cities, and neighborhoods whose enduring forms produce and reproduce racism, poverty, and gender inequalities.
● Explain the practices and processes through which we have transformed climates, oceans, landforms and hydrological cycles and how these changes are creating new vastly uneven vulnerabilities.
● Apply a solid working knowledge of how to approach politics with a geographic mindset.
● Articulate a critical understanding of the core themes in human geography (Space, Nature, Empire, and Globalization) and explain their role in constituting the contemporary world.
● Imagine new possibilities and alternative ways of engaging in and critically thinking about key geopolitical, social, and environmental issues that shape our modern world.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Kosek

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GEOG 10AC Worldings: Regions, Peoples and States 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019
Geography is a way of thinking deeply and expansively about our place in the world and this course is designed to transform how you think about America though understanding its place within a global context. Through concepts central to the field of geography such as space, nature, empire and globalization we will explore the issues of race, culture, ethnicity that pepper the pages of newspapers almost every day in stories of immigration, police violence, global warming, ethnic cleansing, and terrorism. We explore these issues in a way that will change how you understand both America and the world.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Student Learning Outcomes: Understand the complexities of different racial/ethnic groups and their role in the making of America through comparative study in their global context

Articulate a critical understanding of the core themes in human geography (Space, Nature, Empire, and Globalization) and explain their role in constituting forms of difference (race, ethnicity etc.) in the contemporary world.

Discuss the violent and contested histories of regions, cities, and neighborhoods whose enduring material structures produce and reproduce racial inequalities in spatial form.

Explain the processes through which environmental changes are creating new vastly uneven vulnerabilities among different racial, ethnic and class groups.

Explain how concepts of nature have been a means for making and fixing of ethnic and racial difference in America.

Explain how global uneven development and racial and economic inequities are connected to debates around immigration, citizenship and wealth/poverty in America.

Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students who have taken Geog 10 or Geog W10AC may not take Geog 10AC additionally. Also, students that have taken Geog 10AC may not take Geog 10 or Geog W10AC.

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Kosek

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GEOG 20 Globalization 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
How do processes of production, exchange and consumption work in our contemporary era of volatility and fragility? This course takes a historical and geographical approach to understand how areas of the world have been incorporated into contemporary global processes differently.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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GEOG N20 Globalization 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
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.
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Hours & Format

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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GEOG 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
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.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

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GEOG 31 Justice, Nature, and the Geographies of Identity 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2014, Fall 2012
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.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

Instructor: Kosek

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GEOG C32 Introduction to Global Studies 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
This course is designed as an introduction to Global Studies. Using a social science approach, the course prepares students to think critically about issues of international development, conflict, and peace in a variety of societies around the world. As such, it provides students with a basic theoretical introduction to the impact of global interaction as well as an opportunity to explore such interaction in a variety of case studies.
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for GLOBAL C10A/GEOG C32 after taking DEV STD C10, GEOG C32, GLOBAL 10A, or PACS 10.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

Formerly known as: Development Studies C10/Geography C32

Also listed as: GLOBAL C10A

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GEOG 35 Global Ecology and Development 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Summer 2013 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2012 First 6 Week Session
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.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Watts

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GEOG 37 The Politics of Science and Technology 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2012
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.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Geography/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Kosek

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GEOG 40 Introduction to Earth System Science 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
. 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 ong, from skyscrapers to housing tracts, freeways to shopping malls, airports to open spaces. Cities as...