2018-2019 Academic Catalog

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	FREN 132 - Readings in Francophone Literature Introduces analysis and understanding of francophone literature and their visions of the world and of the self. Readings include a wide range of complete texts across the genres, with an emphasis on works from French-speaking countries outside Europe. The focus of the course may vary from year to year. We may examine a theme encountered in literature across the francophone world, or study a variety of literary works from one specific region. Conducted in French. Prerequisites: FREN 120 FREN 124 or above, or permission. Fulfills the Literature Requirement for majors. Course Designation/Attribute: LP Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
	FREN 137 - Studies in Contemporary French Culture Questions of cultural identity and cultural differences, with particular attention to France and foreigners, Franco-American (dis)connections and issues of immigration. Prerequisites: FREN 120 FREN 124 or above, or permission. Fulfills the Culture Requirement for majors. Course Designation/Attribute: LP Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
	FREN 140 - Francophone Writing and Film Offering an overview of the French-speaking world that spans from South East Asia to the Caribbean, North and sub-Saharan Africa, and North America, this course celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures through literature and film. It also seeks to examine and interrogate the ties of these former colonies with France and Belgium, the paths they have followed since independence, and their current socio-economic and political situation. Conducted in French. Prerequisites: FREN 120 FREN 124 or above, or permission. Fulfills the Culture Requirement for majors. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
	FREN 145 - Translation Workshop Students work on various texts (advertising, journalism, theater, film scripts and fiction) exploring theory, techniques and problems of translation. Emphasizes translation from French into English and stresses lexical and syntactic aspects of comparative style. Students become acquainted with the variety of texts an American professional translator might expect to work on, including film subtitling. Prerequisites: FREN 120 FREN 124 or above, or permission. Course Designation/Attribute: POP Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
	FREN 146 - Advanced Oral Expression - Lecture/Discussion This course is designed to help students improve their fluency in French. A variety of materials including films, newspaper articles, current events and literary texts will be used to help students perfect pronunciation and intonation, communicate opinions and engage in debate. Other topics may include phonetics, levels of discourse, public speaking, and dramatic interpretation. Prerequisites: One French course (FREN 131 or above) Course Designation/Attribute: LP Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
	FREN 164 - Haiti and the French Antilles This course examines the societies, cultures and literatures of Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guyana. It begins by tracing the history of the area, including the consequences of the Haitian Revolution in the Caribbean. The course then goes on to explore the cultures of the region, notably the cultural links with both ancestral Africa and France, the status of the Creole language, Haitian vodun, Haitian visual arts, and French Antillean carnival practices. Other topics discussed include gender relations, emigration and diaspora, Haiti’s political trajectory since independence, and the political status of the French Caribbean territories. Prerequisites: FREN 131 or above, or permission. Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
	FREN 210 - Spirited Rebellion: Adolescence French Novel and Film This seminar examines the gendered representation of adolescence through two media, literature and film. We will examine youth as a social category, reading French novels and film against one another, exploring similarities and differences between the two genres in the creation of a cultural understanding of the changing place of youth in society. Themes may include gender identity and gender roles, education, friendship, home and family, love and sexuality, and the transformation of narrative forms. Conducted in French. Offered periodically. Prerequisites: FREN 131 , FREN 136 or above, or permission. Course Designation/Attribute: LP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
	FREN 223 - Surrealist Literature and Art of the 1920s-1940s This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the literary, artistic, and social movement of Surrealism during its most productive and influential period. We will consider its precursors and the singular context in which Surrealism arose as well as its legacy and manifestations in the 21st century. Various facets of Surrealism will be examined, namely manifestoes and essays, poetry, theater, literary prose, cinema, visual art. Themes of the unconscious, the imagination, play, desire, language, transgression, love, and revolution will be of particular interest to us. Conducted in French. Prerequisites: FREN 131 , FREN 132 or above, or by permission. Course Designation/Attribute: LP Anticipated Terms Offered: Tri-annually, in rotation with the two other FFS professors Placement Guidelines Undergraduates only; majors and non-majors welcome
	FREN 249 - The French-Speaking World In the 21st Century An interdisciplinary analysis of the effects of globalization in French-speaking countries around the world. Through literature, social texts, and fiction film and documentaries we explore such issues as the rise of religious extremism; the Algerian civil war; the problematic role of French language and culture in former French colonies decades after independence; the social, economic and cultural consequences of globalization; the intersection between the local and the global; migration patterns from or within the francophone world; and other contemporary issues which the postcolonial francophone world is facing. Course Designation/Attribute: LP Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
	FREN 256 - Education in 20th Century French Novel and Film. An exploration of literary and cinematic portrayals of youth with a focus on the role of the school and other sources of learning. Topics include gendered identity, social structures and narrative strategies. Authors may include Colette, Alain-Fournier, Gide, Sagan, Ernaux and Duras. Conducted in French. Prerequisites: FREN 131 or FREN 132 or permission. Course Designation/Attribute: LP Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
	FREN 297 - Honors This honors program is for language, literature and culture majors only. By November 1 of the capstone semester, faculty will identify qualified senior majors (with a minimum GPA of 3.5) and invite them to submit a proposal for a semester-long honors thesis during the spring of their senior year. Other students who wish to take honors should identify an area of interest during the capstone semester, consult with the capstone professor and/or an appropriate honors adviser, and submit a proposal (by December 1) to the professor they would like to direct the project.* Proposals will be approved at the discretion of the individual professor. The Department Chair must also approve the project. The honors candidate and adviser will decide on a work schedule, but a preliminary draft must be completed by the first week of April. The final version is due one week before the last day of classes. A second faculty reader will participate in the final evaluation of the honors project. An honors project counts as one unit of credit. Students graduating early and wishing to do an honors project should see their adviser during the fall of their junior year and get approval for the project from the thesis director and the department chair. Anticipated Terms Offered:* Annually Placement Guidelines Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
	FREN 299 - Directed Study Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit. Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
	GEOG 016 - Introduction to Economic Geography This course is built on the assumption that we live in a world whose societies, cultures, governments, and environmental relationships are most significantly shaped by the mechanisms and influences of global capitalism. A fuller understanding of the dynamics of the world economy requires that we not isolate them from the political, cultural, social, and ecological contexts through and within which they are situated. Deeper contextual understandings are what economic geographers seek to achieve and this course surveys these perspectives with a focus on the locations and distributions of economic activities and the flows, interconnections, and drivers of uneven development in the global economy. Fulfills the Global Comparison Perspective. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 017 - Environment and Society Relationships between human societies and the natural environment are central to the discipline of geography. Geography 017 introduces students to these relationships and to the analysis of them, integrating perspectives from the natural and social sciences. We examine questions such as: how do environments shape societies; how do societies transform environments; are there environmental limits to economic growth; how does culture shape our relationships with our environments; and what sorts of human-environment relationships are sustainable and just? We examine these questions at many different geographic and temporal scales: from pre-history up to the present, from very local cases to the entire planet, and from pre-industrial or rural landscapes to suburban and urban ones. Cases and discussions will span the entire globe, but will include examples from the Americas, the United States, and New England in order to ground our discussions in the places we know best. One weekly discussion section. Fulfills the Global Comparison Perspective. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 020 - American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places This course examines the history and contemporary processes of urbanization, primarily in the North American context, with particular attention to the geography of these processes, which results in the differentiation of space and the creation of distinct places. The course covers a range of topics relevant to cities, including historical development, governance, social patterns, economics, planning, contemporary problems and the linkages among all of these. We examine the geography of urbanization at several scales, ranging from the development of the North American urban system to the experiences of neighborhoods within cities. A core course in Globalization, Cities and Development in the geography major. Fulfills the Historical Perspective (HP) requirement. Course Designation/Attribute: HP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 022 - Why Global Warming Matters I Climate change (global warming)is the single greatest problem facing the planet today. Or is it? In this seminar students will peel away the rhetoric surrounding global climate change, so that they may be able to understand why this issue matters not only to international policy makers but also to individuals and their daily lives. Topics for exploration will focus on the causes and consequences of climate change and justification (and options) for action. The breadth of areas the climate-change issue intersects - including but not limited to politics, economy, ecology, epistemology, ethics - suggests that global warming is a crucial integrating theme for the discipline of geography and, more importantly, the intellectual foundation of a well-rounded student. Fulfills the Values Perspective (VP). Offered periodically as a first year seminar and as a lecture course. Course Designation/Attribute: VP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
	GEOG 028 - Discover Worcester What is this city of Worcester? Discover it! In this class, we will explore and learn about Worcester using a variety of lenses: field trips, historical accounts and documents, contemporary statistical data, and scholarly analyses of broader US urban trends. We will visit cultural institutions such as the Art Museum, document social life via photography of streets and parks, and learn about the city from local experts. At the end of the course, you will be able to describe and critically assess Worcester in terms of US urban development, institutional and neighborhood resources, and your own experiences of its many landscapes. Fulfills the History Perspective. Course Designation/Attribute: HP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
	GEOG 050 - Africa Today Sub-Saharan Africa is arguably one of the most poorly understood, misrepresented, and oversimplified regions of the world. This course will apply geographic theories and ideas to the study of Africa with the broad objective of building students’ geographical literacy and their understanding of contemporary issues and circumstances influencing African peoples, communities, cultures, and environments. Through in-depth discussions, debates, and analyses of case-studies detailing challenges and opportunities in the region, students will study Africa’s geography, explore Africans’ everyday lives and their visions for its future, and critically examine the causes for and prospective solutions to economic, political, and social challenges facing the sub-continent today. In doing so, students will confront mainstream stereotypes about African peoples, societies, politics, and economies and will encounter some of the interconnectivities and interdependencies between their lives and those of Africans. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: occasionally
	GEOG 052 - Global Change, Regional Challenges Applies a regional perspective to explore important questions related to our planet and its people including: What are the key challenges facing communities, environments and societies in different regions of the world today? Is the world becoming more culturally homogenous or more fragmented? Why is the global distribution of wealth so uneven and how might poorer regions “catch up” to wealthier regions? How does the physical and human context of a region influence its ability to benefit from globalization? What factors are driving regional conflicts and how might peaceful resolutions be achieved? Focuses on eight regions – Europe, Russia/Central Asia, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and South/Southeast Asia. One or two significant issues will be focused on in each region such as gender equality, human rights, environmental sustainability, political change, economic development, public health, and/or human rights. Fulfills the Global Comparative Perspective. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 075 - Americans and the Environment This first-year intensive, run as a seminar, will immerse students in the study of how Americans have interacted with their environments, ending in the present and looking to the near future. It will focus on key themes, moments, and debates, with a particular emphasis on New England and the Worcester region. Local and regional field trips to key sites will complement the readings. It will encompass aspects of environmental history; the evolution of US environmental law, policy, and social movements; and the role of both the United States as a country, and individual Americans as citizens and consumers, in contemporary environmental politics and interactions Course Designation/Attribute: HP Anticipated Terms Offered: Every other year
	GEOG 080 - Reading the Forested Landscape This First Year Intensive course will introduce students to the field of forest ecology, the process of scientific inquiry, and New England’s forest ecosystems. Understanding how ecosystems function and change in response to human activities and normal Earth system fluctuations is among the most important contemporary topics. Beyond having inherent scientific value, such knowledge has become integral to national and international policies and practices of ecosystem management. This intensive course will focus on forest ecosystems, which are one of the most important ecosystem types on Earth, and will consider fundamental ideas regarding how forests function, how they change, and how they are studied. As a First Year Intensive, this course will employ dialogical teaching, collaborative learning, and will also support students’ transition to college and the development of foundational skills necessary to succeed. Course Designation/Attribute: SP Anticipated Terms Offered: occasionally
	GEOG 087 - Introduction to Environmental Information Science An introduction to fundamental concepts of environmental geographic information science, and a comprehensive survey of the technologies and institutions involved in producing and using geographic data. These include the global positioning system, aerial surveys and photogrammetry, topographic mapping, social surveys such as the U.S. Census, and satellite remote sensing. Overall, this class is a combined introductory class to Geographic Information Science (GISc), cartography and remote sensing. Fulfills the Science Perspective. Course Designation/Attribute: SP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Periodically
	GEOG 090 - Native Americans, Land and Natural Resources There are several reasons for the establishment of this course. First, there are the issues of Native American histories and geographies - subjects that most “Americans” (and others) are not particularly well versed in, and - subjects that are constantly revised and reinterpreted. These histories and geographies are important for understanding the roots of the American “nation” and for considering the morality of other acts of past and present colonialism in the world, i.e. Israeli settlement of Palestine; European colonial history in India, Africa and the Middle East; Chinese colonialism in Uyghur territory in central Asia and in Tibet; the US in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Hawaii (to name just a few). Second, studying Native American practices and attitudes toward “nature” allow us to consider other ways of being in the world besides the Euro-American way. The concepts of “development” and “progress” must be critically examined here. Finally, the questions of who is indigenous and how cultures persist - with or without assimilation - are significant for better understanding international and intercultural relations, particularly where conflicts over land and resources occur. The course is divided into 4 modules: Introduction to Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Geographies of Colonialism, Indigenous Geographies of Justice and Indigenous Geographies of Resistance and Resurgence. We will begin by establishing a framework for our study, using the theories of settler colonialism and decolonization, and then examine various histories and geographies of indigeneity in the Americas. Our goals in the course will be to learn as much as we can about indigenous histories and geographies such as extractive industry conflicts, and projects of socio-ecological restoration. We will also examine indigenous peoples’ land claims and survival struggles elsewhere in the Americas, and through collaborative learning explore contemporary indigenous geographies in other parts of the world. In addition to the readings, we will make use of a number of films, web sources, and field trips to educate ourselves. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
	GEOG 101 - Food Justice and Food Movements In this course we will be examining the meaning of “food justice” and the multiple movements attempting to change the highly destructive existing industrial food system in the US and elsewhere. At the same time, we will be working on the Real Food Challenge at Clark. The Real Food Challenge is a US student-led campaign to shift institutional purchasing toward food that is more humane, worker friendly, environmental sound, and advancing of local economies. In signing the Challenge Clark University committed to having 20% “real food” by 2020. “Real food” consists of food that has certain certifications to qualify it as local, fair, humane, or ecologically sound. This class will incorporate the practical work that goes along with the commitment, working on the real food calculator and raising campus awareness of the Challenge, with learning the intricate world of the global productive system. This means looking through the lens of the Real Food Wheel to examine all of the different facets that make the food system. This means producers, earth, consumers, customers, and earth. The Real Food Wheel will act as the vehicle for explaining the social, cultural, ecological, moral, and economic impacts of the modern food system. Course Designation/Attribute: VP Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
	GEOG 102 - Weather and Climate Understanding controls of weather: insolation, evaporation, wind, and topography; the climates that result; and how they influence human activities. Students are also introduced to fundamentals of scientific inquiry and knowledge with exposure to observational methods, data analysis, and forecasting. Fulfills the Science Perspective. Course Designation/Attribute: SP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 104 - Earth System Science This course introduces the structure and function of the earth system, with a focus on how the Earth system sustains life. Topics include (1) connections among terrestrial surface, oceans, and atmosphere and (2) how these connections create and sustain climates, biomes, and ecosystem services. Fulfills the Science Perspective requirement. Course Designation/Attribute: SP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year.
	GEOG 106 - Water and the City: A Socio-Hydrology of Worcester and its Environs The course offers a historical and contemporary exploration of the social relationships between our city-region and its water (as lifeline, right, cultural and ecological resource, economic engine, waste, and central to politics, regulation, management and future climate vulnerability and resilience). We draw widely from the academic literature on urban nature, urban development and change, planning, environmental justice, and climate and environmental history, as well as from popular literature and periodicals (newspapers, regional watershed-related blogs and websites, policy briefs). This scholarship is used to establish a foundational framework of urban socio-hydrology. We strongly integrate our academic work with field experiences in Worcester, the Blackstone River Valley and the Central New England region as a living laboratory, in order to witness key moments and features that have shaped regional history as well as current issues in water (and wastewater) management, conservation, and planning. We will undertake visits to sites such as the Clark campus rain garden and public parks and locations throughout Worcester, the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Historical Museum, the Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park and the Millville Lock, regional watershed associations, the Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, The Harvard Forest Fisher Museum and the City of Worcester Water Treatment Plant. These experiences of regional land use, watershed change and urban water management will be threaded through and complement our academic investigation of urban socio-hydrology. Course Designation/Attribute: VP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 107 - Miracles of Asia: Economic Growth in Global Contexts Explores the reasons behind the rapid rise of Asian economies and their sudden crises. Discussions include the impacts of rapid industrialization on the standard of living, housing, role of the state, multinational corporations, urban problems and ethnic relations in east, southeast and south Asian countries. Examines the role of Japan and the United States in Asia’s industrialization, the impacts of colonialism in socio-economic-political transformation in the Asia-Pacific region, business-government relations in Newly Industrializing Economies, and the recent phenomenal growth of China and India. Fulfills the Global Comparison Perspective. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 110 - Introduction to Quantitative Methods GEOG110 is an introductory course in applied statistical analysis with emphasis on computer skills. Students gain proficiency in using spreadsheets to organize data and to perform the most common statistical procedures such as univariate analysis, hypothesis testing, estimation of means, regression, and association. Undergraduate students receive credit for a Formal Analysis perspective. Geography majors receive credit for a skills course. Environmental Science majors receive credit for a statistics course. Graduate students receive credit by registering for GEOG311. Prerequisites are high school math such as Algebra 2 and/or pre-calculus. Prerequisites: Prerequisites are high school math such as Algebra 2 and/or pre-calculus. Course Designation/Attribute: FA Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered at least once per year
	GEOG 116 - Forest Ecology Understanding how ecosystems function and how they change in response to human activities and normal Earth system fluctuations are important themes in contemporary natural sciences. Beyond having inherent scientific value, such knowledge has become integral to national and international policies and practices of ecosystem management. This course provides a foundation in forest ecology by considering the function, structure, and composition of forest ecosystems. Topics include forest succession, long-term ecological variability, disturbance ecology, ecological resilience, and the influence of climate and environmental heterogeneity on forest patterns and dynamics. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 119 - The Arctic in the Anthropocene The Arctic is currently experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on Earth. The most profound environmental changes that will occur in your lifetime are undoubtedly those resulting from climate warming in the Arctic: loss of Arctic sea ice, melting of glaciers/ice caps/ice sheets, thawing of carbon-rich permafrost, extinction of species, among numerous other impacts. However, what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic - these changes have far-reaching implications across the planet. For instance, loss of arctic snow and ice exacerbates global climate warming, thawing of arctic permafrost carbon contributes vast quantities of greenhouse gases to the global atmosphere, and the melting of land ice in the Arctic is the largest contributor to expected global sea level rise over the next century. Furthermore, climate warming in the Arctic has significant implications for native communities and subsistence hunting activities, fisheries, oil and gas exploration, and shipping routes. This course focuses on understanding the Arctic as a system, including land-atmosphere-ocean-ice-human interactions. Topics include arctic hydrology, climatology, biogeochemical cycling, permafrost, glacier/ice sheet dynamics, terrestrial and marine ecology, sea ice, physical oceanography, and human-environment interactions. Course Designation/Attribute: SP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 126 - Living in the Material World: The Political Geography of Resource Development Focuses on consumption and production systems that determine the development, allocation and use of natural resources like water, minerals, trees and animals. Emphasizes approaches used by geographers to study natural resources (e.g., commodity chains, geopolitical analysis, ecological footprints). Case studies provide an opportunity to examine differences between societies (or economies) and between specific resource issues. Oil and gas in the Middle East and the Caspian, water in the western United States, Israel or India; gold in Tanzania, the United States and South Africa; and animal use in India, Great Britain and China are some examples of typical cases. Fulfills the Global Comparison Perspective. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 127 - Political Economy of Development Why do some people die from too much consumption yet others at the opposite corner of the world perish from poverty and starvation? Development theories try to answer fundamental questions like this. This course critically examines these development theories, including classical, neoclassical and Keynesian economies; modernization theory; dependency, Marxist and neo-Marxist and world systems theories; post-developmentalism; feminism and feminist critiques of development; and critical modernist theories. The course quickly takes students with an initial interest in development to a high level of critical understanding. Fulfills the Global Comparison perspective. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 136 - Gender and Environment Explores the gendered nature of environments we inhabit, represent, and transform through everyday practices, as well as the gendered power relations implicated in the politics of resource access, use, and control at the local and the global level. Spans a number of interrelated themes, including feminist environmentalism, ecofeminism, feminist political ecological concerns on food, water, the body, and human-animal relations, masculine environments, queer ecologies, and environmental and gender justice movements. Combines lectures, discussions, films, student presentations, and group debates. Satisfies Values Perspectives (VP). Course Designation/Attribute: VP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 141 - Research Design and Methods in Geography Focuses on ways empirical social-science research is conducted. Students study problems, methodological strategies and analytical techniques characteristic of current social and geographical research. Includes defining a research problem, measurement, sampling, research design, analysis and writing the report. Fulfills the Formal Analysis requirement. A required skills course in the geography major, and strongly recommended for the GES major. Course Designation/Attribute: FA Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 152 - Geographies of Globalization An introduction to the study of globalization and geographical variations in its impacts. Examines the issues of development, income disparity across regions and nations, the emergence of multinational corporations, the impacts of government policy and the role of information technologies in globalization. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall 2016
	GEOG 157 - Psychogeography and Cultural Spaces Human are forever inscribing themselves in the landscape; whether it be particular architectural forms or certain crop formations, the result is a complex palimpsest that records social life. Cultural geographies have unpicked this record, studying how and why grandiose monuments signify social status and, conversely, why other groups have been resigned to a ghostly presence. And yet these complex and intriguing geographies too often become buried underneath daily routines and multimedia bombardment. Psychogeographers look to reignite our awareness and engagement with the human environment; as one of its founders stated, psychogeography is “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals”. This course continues on in this tradition. It does not simply look to engage with questions of how to identify and examine cultural geographies, rather it enlists students in an attempt to interact with the shaping of landscapes; recognizing how daily routines make our world and how critical understandings of cultural geographies can help effect social change. After an introduction to the psychogeographical and cultural geography literatures, students will engage in their own urban explorations and interactions; navigating Worcester via Berlin, partaking in “urban drifting” and constructing their own “detourements”. The course will therefore provide a foundation in cultural geography and connect classroom to outside world through the practice of psychogeography. Fulfills the Values Perspective (VP) requirement. Course Designation/Attribute: VP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 0170 - Environment and Society Relationships between human societies and the natural environment are central to the discipline of geography. Geography 017 introduces students to these relationships and to the analysis of them, integrating perspectives from the natural and social sciences. We examine questions such as: how do environments shape societies; how do societies transform environments; are there environmental limits to economic growth; how does culture shape our relationships with our environments; and what sorts of human-environment relationships are sustainable and just? We examine these questions at many different geographic and temporal scales: from pre-history up to the present, from very local cases to the entire planet, and from pre-industrial or rural landscapes to suburban and urban ones. Cases and discussions will span the entire globe, but will include examples from the Americas, the United States, and New England in order to ground our discussions in the places we know best. Course Designation/Attribute: GP (summer only) Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
	GEOG 172 - City Planet: Urban Challenges in a Globalized World We now live on a City Planet: the majority of the world’s population are ‘urbanite’ and their numbers continue to grow. Yet this symbolic tipping point in human settlement comes with significant challenges. Most people within this urban majority live in ‘slums’, with many of the economic and cultural opportunities associated with cities in western thought being pure fantasy in the face of daily struggles for survival. Furthermore, given cities are the primary emitters of greenhouse gases, all urban dwellers are united, if not equally, in being responsible for climate change and its potential mediation. This course examines the emergence of a City Planet through: an examination of the ways in which geographers have understood cities and their relationships in an era of globalization; the tracing of global urban relations with respect to capital, labor, communications and culture; and the consideration to two of the major challenges currently faced: growing social inequalities and mounting sustainability requirements. A core course in Globalization, Cities and Development in the geography major. Fulfills the Global Comparative (GP) requirement. Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 179 - Global and Local Environmental Justice Integrates ecology, culture and political economy from local to global scale through case studies. Starts from a view of people in environmental “hot spots,” following links to world economy and planetary ecosystems. Explores connections of international environmental, economic and social policy with everyday realities and possible futures of people from the Amazon rain forest to the streets of Worcester. Fulfills the Values Perspective (VP) requirement. Normally offered as lecture/discussion course. We will offer hands on field research to support local solutions to pollution along the Tatnuck Brook and specifically Coes Pond, as well as a module on local/global food connections and three international case studies of local and global resistance to environmental damage and resource depletion by indigenous peoples, peasants and community organizations from forest and agrarian landscapes to urban neighborhoods. Course Designation/Attribute: VP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 180 - The Earth Transformed by Human Action Traces the course of human modification and transformation of the earth since antiquity, but with particular emphasis on the last 300 years. The major causes and consequences of these changes are explored from global climate change to the sustainability of life. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
	GEOG 186 - Special Topics: Devoted to a specific topic unique for each semester and instructor. FALL 2018 TOPIC: GEOGRAPHIES OF POVERTY & INEQUALITY The gap between the rich and poor is growing, prompting concerns about what intensifying inequality and poverty might mean for society. This course will provide students with an opportunity to think deeply about the diverse causes, consequences and experiences of inequality and poverty. We will focus primarily on the United States, but we will also look at historical and global examples for context. Throughout the semester, we will move through a series of inquiries to explore how housing, food, transportation, health, the environment, and work and wages are related to course themes. We will use academic articles, maps, videos, short stories, reputable news sources, policy briefs, art and in-class discussion to help us identify and analyze the underlying structural causes and consequences of poverty and inequality so we might envision alternatives. May be repeateable for credit. Course Designation/Attribute: VP Anticipated Terms Offered: Occasionally
	GEOG 190 - Introduction to Geographic Information Science This course introduces Geographic Information Science (GIS) as a powerful mapping and analytical tool. Topics include GISc data structure, map projections, and fundamental GISc techniques for spatial analysis. Laboratory exercises concentrate on applying concepts presented in lectures and incorporate two widely used GISc software packages - IDRISI (created by Clarklabs) and ArcGIS (created by ESRI). These exercises include examples of GISc applications in environmental modeling, socio-demographic change and site suitability analyses. Although the course is computer-intensive, no programming background is required. A formal-analysis course. Counts as skills course or core course in mapping sciences/spatial analysis in geography major. Course Designation/Attribute: FA Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
	GEOG 201 - Taste, Culture, Power: Historical Geographies of Food How does our modern penchant for caffeine, sweets, fresh produce, and meat relate to imperialism and inequality? Across time and space, humans have ingested plants, animals, and substances for sustenance, nourishment, pleasure, medicine, and spirituality. Every food and meal we consume represents a confluence of tastes, cultures, and powers that can be traced back to the interconnected histories and geographies of slavery, colonialism, racism, patriarchy, militarism, and capitalism. This seminar is intended to help students develop foundational knowledge in critical agro-food studies. Through readings, written assignments, discussions, and group projects, students will examine big questions, such as the colonial roots of children’s sweet tooth; the socio-ecological “hoofprint” of animal-based diets; the geopolitical origins of the calorie; gender and racial ideologies undergirding the invention of “Betty Crocker” and “Aunt Jemima”; and the future possibilities of food. Course Designation/Attribute: HP, D&I Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
	GEOG 205 - Introduction to Hydrology Overview of what governs the hydrological cycle’s major components of precipitation, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, surface water, and groundwater. Core principles of physical hydrology will be introduced including rainfall-runoff processes, surface and subsurface storage and flows, and land-atmosphere exchange. Students will also learn about human influences on the water cycle, and consider management of water resources at field to watershed scales. Upon completion of this course, students will: Understand the essential elements of hydrological processes and how these govern the distribution of water in the earth system. Be able to solve the surface water balance and analyze its controls in different environments. Have the basic skills needed to explore water resource issues, such as quantitative understanding of the likelihood of extreme rainfall and flooding events, flow directions and rates in surface and ground waters, or land use/land cover effects on hydrological processes. Have new appreciation for fundamental tools and terms used in the field of hydrology including mass balance, steady-state, flux-gradient relations, continuity, dimensional analysis, and probability. Prerequisites include GEOG 104 Earth System Science or GEOG 102 Weather and Climate. Students lacking this background may request special permission to enroll. A background in one or more of the following courses would also be helpful: physics (PHYS 110/111), calculus (MATH 120/121), or statistics (GEOG 110). Three of the lab sessions will require extended hours. Prerequisites: GEOG 102 - Weather and Climate or GEOG 104 - Earth System Science Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall
	GEOG 216 - Field Methods for Environmental Science The collection and analysis of field data is central to research and other work in the environmental sciences. In this field-based course students learn key methods used in environmental science, especially forest ecology. Students also work with the scientific method and learn to formulate and test hypotheses. Most class meetings involve field trips to nearby forest ecosystems to collect field data. Occasional class meetings are in the classroom to discuss methodological approaches. Prerequisites: The successful completion of or concurrent enrollment in GEOG 116 or consent of the instructor is a prerequisite for GEOG 216. Course Designation/Attribute: SP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 220 - Property and the Global Environment Property relations are among the most powerful and pervasive institutions in human societies. Fundamental rules governing and legitimating who can do what, and where, shape and reveal interactions between human societies and physical environments. This course explores these dynamics with a particular focus on their implications for environmental politics and regulation. It addresses debates over common property; the benefits and dangers of privatization of environmental goods and services; distinctions between formal and informal property rights; the development of zoning and other regulation of private property; and contemporary debates over novel forms of property rights in nature (e.g., intellectual property rights, tradeable pollution permits, etc.), as well as relationships among trade, property rights, and environmental quality. At least 6 credits of prior coursework in geography or another relevant discipline (e.g., political science, economics, history, or ID) or permission of the instructor subsequent to discussion regarding the student’s level of preparation is required.
	GEOG 222 - Why Global Warming Matters Climate change (a.k.a. “global warming”) is the single greatest problem facing the planet today. Or is it? In this course students will peel away the rhetoric surrounding global climate change, so that they may be able to understand why this issue matters not only to international policy makers but also to individuals and their daily lives. Topics for exploration will focus on the causes and consequences of climate change and justification (and options) for action. The breadth of areas the climate-change issue intersects - including but not limited to ecology, politics, economy, ethics - suggests that global warming is a crucial integrating theme for the discipline of geography and, more importantly, the intellectual foundation of a well-rounded student. Students will engage in quantitative and qualitative analysis. Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
	GEOG 224 - Economy and Environment Environmental problems are largely the result of economic developments and human settlement patterns. This course involves the examination of different types of economies, various institutional forms and constraints, and cultural features that have environmental implications. Of particular importance are the types of futures that people envision, and the sorts of economic features that must be developed to achieve desirable (or sustainable) futures. Ecological modernization, political and social ecologies, voluntary simplicity, industrial ecology, community-based entrepreneurial economies, “other than capitalist” economies, and other discourses/practices will be examined for their economic and environmental implications. We will also consider global production networks and fair trade, third party certification, and corporate social responsibility. A practical project will be undertaken by each student. Food production and consumption will be a principal focus of the course. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 225 - Environmental Politics This course examines the development of environmental governance, with a primary focus on the United States. It explores how we conceive of the environment, multiple approaches to environmental governance and protection, and the many dimensions of environmental politics. It reviews both the history of environmental movements and regulation, and contemporary issues and debates in environmental governance, with particular attention to issues of scale, justice, institutional forms, and the effects of social movements. Each iteration of the course will focus on a specific example, after building a common historical and analytical foundation (e.g., climate change, genetically modified organisms, pollution control, conservation of biodiversity, etc.). Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 232 - Landscape Ecology Considers the relationships between spatial patterns in landscape structure (physical, biological and cultural) and ecological processes. Role of ecosystem pattern in mass and energy transfers, disturbance regimes, species’ persistence, applications of remote sensing and GIS for landscape characterization and modeling are examined. Prerequisite: GEOG 190 - Introduction to Geographic Information Science . GEOG 116 - Forest Ecology is strongly recommended. Prerequisites: GEOG 190 - Introduction to Geographic Information Science Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 237 - Feminism, Nature and Culture The purpose of this course is to expose students to major currents of contemporary social theory that have developed around “nature” and “woman” or nature and gender. We will explore a number of important contemporary topics including: biotechnology and “life,” food and identity, the body/science/fashion, human and nonhuman animal relations, and the manner in which conceptualizations of nature and of women (or gender roles) mutually constitute and reinforce one another. Our principal goals are to analyze and critique the normative idea of what is “nature” or what is “natural” as it pertains to gender, environmental processes, other life forms, and human social and economic existence in general. Because feminists have been instrumental in leading much of this analysis and critique, we lean heavily on feminist theories. We will explore these ideas through science fiction, magical realism, cartoons, movies, other fiction, social histories and biographies. By the end of the semester, students should be adept at decoding representations of nature and gender in the popular media as well as in academic scholarship. Students should also have a reasonable understanding of the development of and debates surrounding biotechnology and gender, identity and gender, and ecofeminist thought. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 238 - Animal Geographies Animals play a prominent role in human life. They sustain us, entertain us and provide companionship and solace. Most of the “animal planet” is comprised of humans and their domestic animals. Only a small percentage of the mass of animals are actually wild. Emerging work in cognitive ethology and ecology is providing new knowledge on animals’ skills and minds. Political movements are fighting for new rights for domesticated animals. How should our relations with other species be determined and assessed? How do these relations differ through cultures and spaces? Where do non-human animals belong? Open to upper-level undergraduates. Formally GEOG 105 The Keeping of Animals Prerequisites: GEOG 017 or GEOG 126 or GEOG 136 or GEOG 179 Course Designation/Attribute: GP Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 240 - Race and Urban Space This course is about the ways in which race and racial difference have been central to the production of cities and everyday life in urban contexts. Ultimately, our goal is to gain a broader understanding of the relationship between social difference, space and power. Across our course readings there is a particular focus on Black urban life. However, given that race is inextricably linked to other categories of difference - gender, sexuality, class-our course attends to how people who inhabit multiple axes of difference both experience life in the city and produce new definitions of urbanity. Course Designation/Attribute: DI Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
	GEOG 245 - Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere The Earth’s cryosphere (frozen planet) plays a critical role in shaping the world in which we live. The great ice sheets of the past shaped the surface of the continents; changes in snow cover and sea ice extent are amplifying global warming; rapid thinning of glaciers and ice sheets is accelerating global sea level rise; and abrupt snow melt is one of the primary causes of catastrophic flooding. Understanding how and why the cryosphere experiences such rapid changes is of ever increasing societal importance. Changes in the cryosphere occur on massive scales and in hostile environments, making them highly suited for analysis using remote sensing. In this class students will learn about the physical characteristics of the cryosphere’s four main components; glaciers, sea ice, snow and permafrost and the role that each component plays in modulating the Earth’s climate system. Students will build upon previous remote sensing knowledge and learn about visible, Lidar, radar and microwave satellite sensors and apply this knowledge to measure changes in cryosphere characteristics (e.g. area, volume, mass, reflectance, melt, and velocity). Students will be required to complete a self-directed and novel group research project that they will present to the class the end of the term. The course will also focus on student skill development with several frequent collaborative projects conducting remote sensing analysis using Matlab. Prerequisites: GEOG 293 or equivalent background, some programming knowledge (such as C, Python, R, Matlab) is beneficial but not required. Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring
	GEOG 246 - Geospatial Analysis with R Free and open source R is increasingly used for geospatial analyses. R and its ecosystem of supporting software also facilitate the creation, presentation, and reproducibility of analyses. R is therefore very close to being a one-stop shop for the modern GIScientist. This course will provide students with the skills they need to use R as a GIS. There will be additional emphases on programming, presentation, and reproducibility, which will entail learning to develop R libraries, development of presentations and reports using Rmarkdown, and using version control with github. Students will learn and apply R skills by working on a specific research problem. Open to upper level undergraduate and graduate students. Satisfies the Skills requirement or can count as a specialization course in GIS in the undergraduate geography and global environmental studies major/minor. Prerequisites: GEOG 190 - Introduction to GIS Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
	GEOG 247 - Intermediate Quantitative Methods in Geography Continues development begun in GEOG 110 of computer-based methods in geographical analysis. Focuses on bivariate and multivariate regression, discriminant analysis, factor analysis, log-linear models and analysis of spatial and temporal data. Includes lab work with PCs, spreadsheets and SPSS-X statistical software package. Prerequisite: GEOG 110 . Meets skill requirement for geography majors and graduate students. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 248 - Social Justice and the City Cities today face unprecedented challenges. Migration, rapid urbanization, growing inequality, authoritarian governments, racial tensions, terrorism, climate change, and the list goes on. This course examines the concept of social justice in light of contemporary philosophical debates and explores its various relations to the city and urban development, using a geographical perspective. After engaging various dialogues on social justice, the course turns its attention to the ‘urban question’. It asks what is distinctive about the issue of social justice in an urban context and whether we need a more geographically-informed viewpoint from with to deploy our positions on social justice. In the final section of the course, various urban issues and problems are explored using developed understandings of social justice. Course Designation/Attribute: VP, DI Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 252 - Urban Design Research Lab At present, over half the world’s population live in cities. Yet we have no stable idea of what makes a good city. As society changes, so does what it is we demand of our cities. We therefore must understand the city as constantly in a state of becoming. As a consequence we require a critical understanding of what types of processes cause the city to change over time. This course seeks to unite this realization with the concerns of urban practice. Throughout the 20^th century, urban geographers examined the ways in which urban planners, architects and urban designers shaped the city. Conversely, early urban planners such as Ebenezer Howard and Patrick Geddes were deeply concerned with geographical problems. In this course we bring an understanding of contemporary urban problems to the study of urban design and practice. The course requires students to select a topical concern and research what geographers and urbanists have concluded about it. With this understanding, students must collectively draw upon social and urban theory to develop an urban design scheme to respond to the topical issue. Throughout the course students will work in groups to develop a design scheme. Prerequisites: One of the following is required: GEOG 020 American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places GEOG157 Psychogeography and Cultural Spaces GEOG172 City Planet: Urban Challenges in a Globalized World GEOG 241 Suburbia: Culture, Politics, Place GEOG 258 Utopian Visions, Urban Realities GEOG 248 Social Justice and the City Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 257 - Internet Geography: Socioeconomic Impacts of Information Technologies Spring 2018 Course Description: In the span of a few decades, the Internet has become a driver of global change and has connected people and places to an unprecedented degree. However, to what extent does the Internet transform or supersede the structures, configurations, and arrangements that make up our world? How does the Internet interact with, and produce, geographies at various scales? In light of the rapidly changing environment influenced by the information revolution and the Internet itself, the answers to these questions are not universal, or even immediately apparent. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an explanatory framework that places the Internet into a broader historical, social and political-economic context. By adopting a geographical perspective, this course prepares students to challenge abstract notions of the Internet as a placeless informational cloud, by analyzing its grounded causes, consequences, and impacts at various scales. This course will cover a range of topics related to the history, technology, politics, regulation, and practices of the Internet and associated communication technologies. The course is centered on weekly readings and group discussions. Prior Semesters Description: Examines how the Internet has changed our society, economy, culture and geography. Explores the myths and the realities of the impacts derived from technological changes. Issues for discussions include an examination of ‘the death of distance’, social polarization and the ‘digital divide’ at the national and international scales, as well as the changing practices and modes of everyday social interactions. Explores how consumption and our conceptualization of leisure is changing as a result of the widespread use of the Internet. Course Designation/Attribute: no Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 258 - Utopian Visions, Urban Realities: Planning Cities for the 21st Century Although utopia literally means “no place” and utopias do not exist in any concrete sense, utopian thinking exerts a powerful hold on our imagination and continues to inspire a lot of approaches to urban policy, design and planning today. This course explores this thinking and will attempt to come to grips with various ideas about what utopias should be, how they have animated our thinking about city form and function, and how they have achieved certain material expressions in the twentieth-century urban context. It will also examine the contradictions and unintended consequences of utopian thinking in planning. Amongst other things, the course will grapple with questions of order versus disorder in the city, heterogeneity versus homogeneity, openness versus closure, and individual freedom versus collective necessity. It will draw upon geographical sources as well as a diverse array of other materials. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 260 - GIS & Land Change Models Students learn how to use and to interpret GIS-based computer models that simulate land change, especially those models in Idrisi. Students learn fundamental concepts such as calibration, validation, extrapolation, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis. Most applications focus on policies for Smart Growth of suburbanization and policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). The work is linked to on-going research at Clark University, thus topics vary somewhat from year to year. The course culminates in presentations of student projects. Prerequisites: GEOG 190 or GEOG 390 or instructor permission Anticipated Terms Offered: offered every spring
	GEOG 261 - Decision Methods for Environmental Management and Policy Information on environmental-impact assessments needs to be systematically organized and analyzed to be useful in the decision-making process. This course provides a survey of methods that are currently used to aid environmental decision makers (who include policy makers, environmental managers and affected populations). Covers techniques such as: decision analysis, benefit/cost analysis, multicriteria evaluation, multiobjective analysis, multiattribute utility theory, the analytical hierarchy process, and spatial-analytical methods using geographical information systems. These methods will be evaluated with respect to their theoretical foundations, systems formulation and appropriate application. A critical evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of these methods will also be discussed. Prerequisites: Advanced undergraduates only; instructor permission required for registration Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 263 - The Climate System and Global Environmental Change In order to understand and predict the Earth’s current and future climate, it is imperative to know the forces that can drive both natural and anthropogenic climate change. This course will utilize an Earth Systems approach towards climate science, meaning rather than simply cataloging the Earth’s history of climate change, we will focus on understanding the climate system’s response to both external and internal drivers. We will examine the interactions between atmosphere, ice, ocean, land surface, and vegetation, allowing us to touch on the fields of geology, ecology, paleobotany, glaciology, oceanography, meteorology, biogeochemistry, climate modeling, atmospheric chemistry, and hydrology, among others. The goal of the course is to provide the scientific background that is necessary for understanding global environmental change-related issues as well as providing a basis for addressing the critical social and policy questions that cascade from these issues. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 274 - Africa’s Development in Global Context Explores, in detail, the economic geographies of Sub-Saharan Africa; both their historical development and their contemporary manifestations in commodity chains, business practices, production systems, gender and environmental relations, entrepreneurial and innovative behavior, and rural and urban livelihood strategies. Emphasis is placed on examining how African economies relate to the rest of the world, how globalization is influencing the prospects for growth, autonomy, and sustainability in Africa, and how Africans actually produce, innovate, succeed, and struggle in their business activities. Confronts stereotypes about “backward” economic practices in Africa and encourages students to view Africans as capable agents of economic change not simply as passive victims of global or historical inequalities. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 279 - GIS & Map Comparison GIS & Map Comparison investigates quantitative methods that are commonly used and abused for map comparison, especially in remote sensing and land change science. We examine the advantages, disadvantages, interpretations, and misconceptions of metrics such as Omission Error, Commission Error, Kappa, Figure of Merit, Relative Operating Characteristic, Total Operating Characteristic, Mean Absolute Deviation, and Root Mean Square Error. Students learn a philosophy of map comparison that focuses on components of deviation between maps. Students learn how to use the computer language R. Course projects frequently become scientific literature. The prequeisite is GEOG 190/390 Introduction to GIS, but it is recommended that students enroll also in GEOG 296 or GEOG 397 Advanced Raster GIS simultaneously or before this course. Prerequisites: Prerequisite is GEOG 190 or GEOG 390 or instructor permission. Course Designation/Attribute: FA Anticipated Terms Offered: Every spring
	GEOG 280 - Urban Ecology: Cities as Ecosystems Explores ecology and the social and physical geography of cities as systems built and inhabited by people, and constantly changed by social, biological and physical processes. This class of ecosystem is often neglected except in studies of pollution, yet it is home to many of the world’s people and to a surprising number of plant and animal species as well. Readings, lectures, discussion and written work combine landscape and systems ecology with physical and urban geography and environmental justice to broaden our understanding of city environments, both present and possible. In addition to the 3 hour block for class, weekly field classes in Worcester and project workshop time requires attendance at a second weekly 3 hour session. Four day field trip to Boston/Providence or New York City is required: Sept. 15-18 (alt. dates: Sept. 22-25); a $100 fee is charged to students at time of registration to cover administrative and transportation costs. In addition, students should bring $20 for a subway pass and enough to cover meals. Book costs for the course are minimal. Registration is by Permission only (email: drocheleau@clarku.edu) Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 282 - Advanced Remote Sensing Application of remote sensor systems in earth science and other disciplines; interpretation of multispectral scanner, RADAR and thermal imagery, classification, postclassification analysis, special transformations, multitemporal data analysis for change detection, the study of spectral characteristics of vegetation, soils, water, minerals and other materials. The specific objectives of the course are to acquaint the student with the physical principles underlying remote sensing systems and the primary remote-sensing data-collection systems; introduce the student to methods of interpreting and analyzing remotely sensed data; provide some insight concerning the applications of remote sensing in various discipline areas; and provide hands-on experience in digital image processing using software packages available in the computer lab. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 283 - Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Change Explores ecosystem responses to global environmental changes and how they feedback on the earth system. Students will learn about biophysical controls on energy, water, and carbon cycles, and how biogeography, vegetation physiology, and local to global climates influence surface-atmosphere exchanges, which then feedback on biogeography and climate. The course introduces the theory, remote sensing, and computational modeling of biophysical, biogeochemical, and ecosystem dynamical processes active in shaping the terrestrial biosphere. Students will be exposed to methods of land surface and ecosystem process modeling through computer tutorials with numerical simulation, and will train some basics of writing computer code. Can fulfill the Geography or Earth System Science Capstone. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 286 - Special Topics Devoted to a specific topic unique for each semester and instructor. Permission from instructor is required for registration. May be repeateable for credit. SPRING 2019 SEC. 1 - LOOMIS: GEOGRAPHIES OF POVERTY & INEQUALITY The gap between the rich and poor is growing, prompting concerns about what intensifying inequality and poverty might mean for society. This course will provide students with an opportunity to think deeply about the diverse causes, consequences and experiences of inequality and poverty. We will focus primarily on the United States, but we will also look at historical and global examples for context. Throughout the semester, we will move through a series of inquiries to explore how housing, food, transportation, health, the environment, and work and wages are related to course themes. We will use academic articles, maps, videos, short stories, reputable news sources, policy briefs, art and in-class discussion to help us identify and analyze the underlying structural causes and consequences of poverty and inequality so we might envision alternatives.; SEC. 2 - LOOMIS: WRITER’S WORKSHOP SEMINAR - This course is designed for students who are seeking to advance and conclude a major piece of writing-whether a journal article, thesis or dissertation-during the semester. The purpose of this seminar is to provide students with support, including structure and accountability, so they are able to achieve a major writing goal by the end of the semester. Using a workshop-style format, students will also have an opportunity to engage in the peer review process including receiving constructive feedback on their own writing and reviewing the work of peers. Students will also be introduced to a variety of writing strategies, exercises and resources that will support the development of an academic writing habit. Students interested in the workshop must be prepared to write, revise and submit a major piece of writing by the end of the semester; a writing project with a clear scope and deadline are essential for success in this course. Open only to senior thesis writers in Geography and by permission only. Course Designation/Attribute: no Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall and Spring
	GEOG 287 - New Methods in Earth Observation Understanding the Earth System depends on observing observations of socioeconomic and environmental patterns and processes across multiple spatial and temporal scales. These scales span seconds to decades in time, and centimeters to millions of square kilometers in space. Earth Observation (also known as remote sensing) is the only feasible means for providing this range of perspectives, but our ability to collect data across all necessary scales is currently limited by inherent tradeoffs between the extent, duration, frequency, and resolution of observation. This suggests the possibility that there may be important, but currently unknown, phenomena that exist within our observational blind spots. Some of this blindness is imposed by physics (there are only so many photons reflected from the Earth, and these are proportional to wavelength), but many are due to engineering or economic constraints (some sensors are too expensive to use more than once or over a large area). These latter hurdles are falling, however, as new “big data” analytical techniques emerge, and combine with increasingly available, high quality, low-cost data made possible by a host of new innovations, including cheap satellites, unmanned aerial systems, inexpensive cellphone enabled field sensors, and the availability of a large pool of internet-enabled workers who can interpret these data in ways that computers cannot. By harnessing these new developments, geographers can make breakthroughs in understanding Earth System dynamics, while answering fundamental but unresolved questions. This course is a skills-based follow-on to *GEOG 391-Innovation in Earth Observation, a seminar that reviews the key limitations facing Earth Observation (EO), the recent developments that are challenging these limitations, what limitations remain, and what new challenges are being posed by EO advances. Prerequisites:* Undergraduate students by instructor permission only Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually
	GEOG 289 - Development Policy A research seminar for students with some background in development studies. After an introduction on policy and policy-making institutions, the seminar critically examines recent tendencies in development policy, particularly the policies advocated by the World Bank, IMF and WTO. The course also looks at alternative development. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 293 - Introduction to Remote Sensing This course is designed to introduce the students to the principles and analytical methods of satellite remote sensing as applied to environmental systems (e.g., land-cover classification, vegetation monitoring, etc.). Lectures will cover principles of remote sensing, sensor types, as well as the processing and analysis of multispectral satellite images (e.g. Landsat and SPOT). A series of hands-on lab exercises will complement students’ understanding of lecture material and also helps students to become familiar with image processing functions of the IDRISI image analysis software. Particular emphasis will be placed on final group project that brings a real world perspective to the learning process. Prerequisites: Vector GIS or Introduction to GIS, and must register for Lab. Introduction to GISc and Introduction to Quantitative Methods desirable. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year.
	GEOG 296 - Advanced Raster GIS This course builds on Introduction to GIS by delving deeper into raster GIS. Topics include time-series analysis, uncertainty assessment, multi-objective decision making, land-change modeling, and spatial statistics. Concepts in lectures are illustrated using the Idrisi software. Final project is required. This is a prerequisite for the fifth year Masters program in GIS and is a requirement for the GISDE masters program. Prerequisites: GEOG 190 /GEOG 390 /IDCE 310 - Intro to Geographic Information Systems or permission of instructor. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every spring
	GEOG 297 - Honors Students receive variable credit for advanced research & readings in the honors program. Anticipated Terms Offered: ES
	GEOG 298 - Internship Academic experience taking place in the field with an opportunity to earn credit. Anticipated Terms Offered: ES
	GEOG 299 - Directed Study Undergraduates, typically juniors & seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved & directed by a facutly member. Offered for variable credit. Anticipated Terms Offered: ES
	GEOG 301 - Taste, Culture, Power: Historical Geographies of Food How does our modern penchant for caffeine, sweets, fresh produce, and meat relate to imperialism and inequality? Across time and space, humans have ingested plants, animals, and substances for sustenance, nourishment, pleasure, medicine, and spirituality. Every food and meal we consume represents a confluence of tastes, cultures, and powers that can be traced back to the interconnected histories and geographies of slavery, colonialism, racism, patriarchy, militarism, and capitalism. This seminar is intended to help students develop foundational knowledge in critical agro-food studies. Through readings, written assignments, discussions, and group projects, students will examine big questions, such as the colonial roots of children’s sweet tooth; the socio-ecological “hoofprint” of animal-based diets; the geopolitical origins of the calorie; gender and racial ideologies undergirding the invention of “Betty Crocker” and “Aunt Jemima”; and the future possibilities of food. Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
	GEOG 304 - Cartography and Map Design (0.5 credit) This course studies the elements of cartography with emphasis on the map as a basic form of communication. It explores contemporary design concepts and various graphic techniques. The course covers the key principles of cartography to enable students to use GIS software for the creation of communicative, compelling, visually pleasing maps that highlight spatial relationships among time-space phenomena. This course requires intensive use of GIS softward and will require the completion of a final project portfolio. Students should have knowledge of IDRISI Tiaga/TerrSet and ArcGIS. Open to doctoral and masters students, advanced undergrads may ask to enroll with permission. Prerequisites: GEOG 190 Introduction to Geographic Information Science or IDCE 310 Introduction to GIS is required Anticipated Terms Offered: every other year
	GEOG 305 - Introduction to Hydrology Overview of what governs the hydrological cycle’s major components of precipitation, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, surface water, and groundwater. Core principles of physical hydrology will be introduced including rainfall-runoff processes, surface and subsurface storage and flows, and land-atmosphere exchange. Students will also learn about human influences on the water cycle, and consider management of water resources at field to watershed scales. Upon completion of this course, students will: Understand the essential elements of hydrological processes and how these govern the distribution of water in the earth system. Be able to solve the surface water balance and analyze its controls in different environments. Have the basic skills needed to explore water resource issues, such as quantitative understanding of the likelihood of extreme rainfall and flooding events, flow directions and rates in surface and ground waters, or land use/land cover effects on hydrological processes. Have new appreciation for fundamental tools and terms used in the field of hydrology including mass balance, steady-state, flux-gradient relations, continuity, dimensional analysis, and probability. The course assumes an introductory background in earth and environmental sciences. A background in one or more of the following courses will also be helpful: physics (PHYS110/111), calculus (MATH 120/121), or statistics (GEOG110). Three of the lab sessions will require extended hours. Open to doctoral and masters students. Prerequisites: Corequisites: Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall
	GEOG 309 - Historical Foundations and Trends in Forest Ecology Understanding the ecology of forest ecosystems is central to understanding and addressing many contemporary environmental issues. In this doctoral and masters student seminar, we will read the primary literature, which provides the foundation for contemporary ecological understanding, as well as recent primary literature, which illustrates recent trends in forest ecology research. Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
	GEOG 310 - Qualitative Research Methods, Skills and Applications Examines the purpose, scope and procedures of qualitative research, especially as applied to human geography. Emphasis is on epistemologies underlying various approaches to qualitative research. Readings will draw on a variety of work in the social sciences, especially anthropology, geography, sociology and women’s studies. We examine a range of qualitative methods, including interviews, participant and nonparticipant observation, ethnography, action research and discourse analysis. Through case-study readings, we examine how scholars employ these methods in different research contexts, with particular attention to the ethical and practical considerations of doing so. The course will engage theoretical debates relevant to qualitative research by addressing questions such as: How does qualitative research challenge the practice of social “science” and the search for “universal truths”? How do we represent the world or multiple understandings and perspectives of it? What are the implications of using qualitative data for the researcher, the research product and the “researched”? How do we interpret qualitative data and present it to scholarly audiences? Open to doctoral and masters students. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 311 - Introduction to Quantitative Methods GEOG311 is an introductory course in applied statistical analysis with emphasis on computer skills. Students gain proficiency in using spreadsheets to organize data and to perform the most common statistical procedures such as univariate analysis, hypothesis testing, estimation of means, regression, and association. Undergraduate students receive credit for a Formal Analysis perspective. Geography majors receive credit for a skills course. Environmental Science majors receive credit for a statistics course. Doctoral and masters students receive credit by registering for GEOG311. Prerequisites are high school math such as Algebra 2 and/or pre-calculus. Prerequisites: Prerequisites are high school math such as Algebra 2 and/or pre-calculus. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered at least once per year
	GEOG 314 - Research Proposal Writing in Geography Covers major topics in empirical social science research design, including problem definition, research strategies, sampling, data-collection and data analysis methods, and budgeting. Docotral students only. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 317 - Research This is a variable unit graduate course for students engaged in research at the PhD level. Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
	GEOG 318 - Explanation in Geography This seminar explores the main types of explanation in geography and other social sciences, including positivist, existentialist, realist, Marxist, feminist and postmodernist approaches. The seminar focuses on tensions between structural and nonstructural explanation and the integration of theory with empirical facts. Meets first-year core course requirement for geography doctoral students only. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 320 - Capitalist Natures This graduate seminar will examine classical, recent, and current works in geography and related fields that examine the particular ways in which capitalist societies interact with and transform their environments. Major themes will include: 1) Potential tensions or contradictions between the functioning of capitalist and biophysical systems, including the possibility of natural limits to capitalist economic growth; 2) The characteristic ways in which capitalism internalizes nature into circuits of capital, through the creation of real or fictitious commodities; 3) The ways in which the characteristics of natural systems present specific obstacles to and/or opportunities for capital accumulation; 4) The ways in which capitalism does not merely confront ‘external’ environments, but physically remakes them; 5) The distinctive dynamics of environmental social movements and politics generated by the above processes. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 321 - Ecologies of Resistance and Transformation: Alternatives to Development This graduate seminar course explores the creation of alternative ecologies at the community and regional scale and their relation to global environmental change and economic and cultural globalization trends. The class examines works of social, ecological and cultural theories in light of several case studies including: Mondrogon in Spain; Chiapas and Oaxaca in Mexico: urban collectives in Denmark, Mexico and the U.S.; Science Shops for environmental design in India’s Naramada Valley and other sites: alternative farming in Amish and Mennonite communities in the US; permaculture farmers in Australia and the UK; Forest Peoples’ communities in the Amazon and Mekong River Basins; international organizations such as Via Campesina; and the parallel efforts of Eco-Villages and Transition Towns. We will draw upon theories of Ecosystems, Networks, Complexity, Community, Autonomy, and the Commons, as well as theories of Justice, Identity, Difference and Solidarity. These theoretical readings will inform our understanding of cases studies and vice versa, as we seek to imagine Other Possible Worlds. We will use films, readings and discussions to critically engage with existing literature and examples and to create and question our own alternative visions of possible futures. Open to Geography doctoral students, Geography MS GIS and ICDE masters students and possibly undergraduates with special permission. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 323 - Forest Ecology and Management Seminar Forests are among the most important ecosystems on Earth. The interacting effects of climate change, increased settlement in forests, and other forces has led to difficult questions regarding what is actually driving change in forest ecosystems and what management strategies are most appropriate. In this context, the seminar examines current primary literature dealing with forest ecology and management and focuses on conducting research in forest ecosystems and deriving appropriate management recommendations from that research. Open to doctoral and masters students. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 324 - Economy and Environment Environmental problems are largely the result of economic developments and human settlement patterns. This course involves the examination of different types of economies, various institutional forms and constraints, and cultural features that have environmental implications. Of particular importance are the types of futures that people envision, and the sorts of economic features that must be developed to achieve desirable (or sustainable) futures. Ecological modernization, political and social ecologies, voluntary simplicity, industrial ecology, community-based entrepreneurial economies, “other than capitalist” economies, and other discourses/practices will be examined for their economic and environmental implications. We will also consider global production networks and fair trade, third party certification, and corporate social responsibility. A practical project will be undertaken by each student. Food production and consumption will be a principal focus of the course. Open to doctoral students only. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 329 - Critical Theory: Space, Society and Change Nearly 75 years ago Max Horkheimer, echoing Marx, defined critical theory as distinguished by its attempt to critique and change society. It is therefore not simply a tool for understanding, but also a method for overcoming injustice, domination and oppression. Over the past 50 years, geographers have found inspiration in this transformative mode of theorizing in research fields as diverse as housing, resource management, race relations and climatology. But in what state do we find critical theory today? For some geographers, critical theory has transformed into a pluralist venture that is symbolized by a politics of disagreement and a modest normativity. However, others fervently disagree with this project, arguing that we now face unprecedented challenges that cannot be dealt with by this brand of modest theory or, paradoxically, those more assertive types of theory which preceded it. Simply, it is thought that previous critical theory is unable to produce change in an era of reflexive cynicism, sophism and post-political politics. The seminar follows these debates by tracing the ways in which geographers have historically engaged with critical theory and evaluating where this engagement stands today. In order to achieve the latter, the seminar will examine a range of contemporary critical social theory, including an exploration of Slavoj Zizek’s claim that we need a new theory of everything(!), Alain Badiou’s interpretation of politics as event and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s arguments about critical theory’s kernel concern. Open to doctoral students only. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 330 - Introduction to Species Distribution Modeling An Introduction to species distribution modeling methods and applications. Species distribution models (SDM), are increasingly used to evaluate the impacts of global change on biodiversity, to assess protection status, and for protected areas planning. The course starts with an introduction to ecological niche modeling, and continues with topics of data gathering, pre-processing, modeling (including statistical and machine learning algorithms), and validation. Topics will be covered through a combination of lectures, discussion of assigned readings and hands-on exercises. Prerequisites: IDCE 310 GEOG 190 ID 190 Introduction to GIS Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
	GEOG 332 - Landscape Ecology Considers the relationships between spatial patterns in landscape structure (physical, biological and cultural) and ecological processes. Role of ecosystem pattern in mass and energy transfers, disturbance regimes, species’ persistence, applications of remote sensing and GIS for landscape characterization and modeling are examined. Prerequisites: GEOG 190 OR IDCE 310 . GEOG 116 Forest Ecology is strongly recommended. Open to doctoral and masters students. Prerequisites: GEOG 190 - Introduction to Geographic Information Science OR IDCE 310 - Intro to Geographic Information Systems Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 333 - Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Change Explores ecosystem responses to global environmental changes and how they feedback on the earth system. Students will learn about biophysical controls on energy, water, and carbon cycles, and how biogeography, vegetation physiology, and local to global climates influence surface-atmosphere exchanges, which then feedback on biogeography and climate. The course introduces the theory, remote sensing, and computational modeling of biophysical, biogeochemical, and ecosystem dynamical processes active in shaping the terrestrial biosphere. Students will be exposed to methods of land surface and ecosystem process modeling through computer tutorials with numerical simulation, and will train some basics of writing computer code. Open to doctoral and masters students. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
	GEOG 336 - Wildlife Conservation GIS Research Seminar The course will follow a workshop-seminar and laboratory format in collaboration with research staff at Clark Labs and the Wildlife Conservation Society based in New York City. Students will work in small groups (i.e., no larger than three) for the semester on collaborative conservation projects in Rwanda, Guatemala, Cambodia, and other countries. Students will apply GIS and remote sensing skills to achieve explicit conservation goals related to land change assessment, hydrologic modeling, and ecosystem services valuation/modeling. Work will be performed in close collaboration with Wildlife Conservation Society research staff. Project results will be presented by student teams at the end of the semester to Wildlife Conservation Society staff. Open to doctoral and masters students. Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
	GEOG 337 - Feminism, Nature and Culture The purpose of this course is to expose students to major currents of contemporary social theory that have developed around “nature” and “woman” or nature and gender. We will explore a number of important contemporary topics including: biotechnology and “life,” food and identity, the body/science/fashion, human and nonhuman animal relations, and the manner in which conceptualizations of nature and of women (or gender roles) mutually constitute and reinforce one another. Our principal goals are to analyze and critique the normative idea of what is “nature” or what is “natural” as it pertains to gender, environmental processes, other life forms, and human social and economic existence in general. Because feminists have been instrumental in leading much of this analysis and critique, we lean heavily on feminist theories. We will explore these ideas through science fiction, magical realism, cartoons, movies, other fiction, social histories and biographies. By the end of the semester, students should be adept at decoding representations of nature and gender in the popular media as well as in academic scholarship. Students should also have a reasonable understanding of the development of and debates surrounding biotechnology and gender, identity and gender, and ecofeminist thought. Open to doctoral and masters students. Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
	GEOG 338 - Current Research in Geography This course will expose students to cutting-edge research across the range of geography and cognate disciplines, primarily via close engagement with a series of visiting speakers and their works. It will complement the other required courses for first year doctoral students in the department, Geography 368 (The Development of Western Geographic Thought) and Geography 318 (Explanation in Geography): where they provide historical and conceptual approaches to the development and content of the discipline, Geography 328 will have students engage with specific, grounded, and current examples of geographic research and the ongoing development of the discipline, with particular attention to full coverage of its breadth. The course, run in conjunction with the department’s colloquium series, will include required attendance at each of the lectures by speakers in the series; readings of selected articles or other works by visiting scholars prior to their visits; and class sessions with visiting scholars to discuss the works read, the lecture, and current research in the visitors’ areas of expertise. Students will write papers critically analyzing the talks and papers in terms of both content and presentation, and situating them within both the discipline and interdisciplinary fields of inquiry. The course is required for first-year doctoral students in geography, and open to masters students and senior undergraduate geography majors with permission of the instructor. Anticipated Terms Offered: offered every year fall and spring semesters
	GEOG 340 - Graduate Seminar in Critical Mobilities This course is a graduate reading seminar on the field of mobilities studies. In this seminar we trace genealogies, explore major debates in the field, and examine how various strands of critical theory have shaped the study of mobility. Our readings analyze not only the practice and experiences of mobility, but also the complex networks and infrastructures that engender and prohibit the movement of people, information, capital and material objects. Our course goals are (1) to develop a thorough understanding of how scholars have approached questions of movement and stasis (2) to think about opportunities for geographers to critically intervene upon and expand mobilities studies in the present. This course is open to graduate students only. Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
	GEOG 343 - Human Dimensions of Global Change Global environmental changes involve worldwide transformations of land, oceans and atmosphere, driven by human activities interwoven with natural processes. Its human dimensions involve the complex causes and consequences of people’s individual and collective actions. This advanced seminar investigates the human dimensions of global environmental change, examining its socioeconomic, political and environmental causes and consequences. We will explore urgent, complex social, environmental and management problems, such as changes in tropical forests, grasslands and urbanizing areas; climate change and global food security; emerging infectious diseases; social institutions, collective action and international environmental regimes; spatial methods in global land change research; global land grabs; climate adaption and mitigation; environmental equity and justice, and others. Open to doctoral and masters students. Anticipated Terms Offered: every other fall
	GEOG 345 - Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere The Earth’s cryosphere (frozen planet) plays a critical role in shaping the world in which we live. The great ice sheets of the past shaped the surface of the continents; changes in snow cover and sea ice extent is amplifying global warming; rapid thinning of glaciers and ice sheets is accelerating global sea level rise; and abrupt snow melt is one of the primary causes of catastrophic flooding. Understanding how and why the cryosphere experiences such rapid changes is of ever increasing societal importance. Changes in the cryosphere occur on massive scales and in hostile environments, making them highly suited for analysis using remote sensing. In this class students will learn about the physical characteristics of the cryosphere’s four main components; glaciers, sea ice, snow and permafrost and the role that each component plays in modulating the Earth’s climate system. Students will build upon previous remote sensing knowledge and learn about visible, Lidar, radar and microwave satellite sensors and apply this knowledge to measure changes in cryosphere characteristics (e.g. area, volume, mass, reflectance, melt, and velocity). Students will be required to complete a self-directed and novel group research project that they will present to the class the end of the term. The course will also focus on student skill development with several frequent collaborative projects conducting remote sensing analysis using Matlab. Open to doctoral and masters students. Prerequisites: GEOG 383 Introduction to Remote Sensing or equivalent background; some programming knowledge such as C, Python, R, Matlab, is beneficial but not required Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring

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FREN 132 - Readings in Francophone Literature

FREN 137 - Studies in Contemporary French Culture

FREN 140 - Francophone Writing and Film

FREN 145 - Translation Workshop

FREN 146 - Advanced Oral Expression - Lecture/Discussion

FREN 164 - Haiti and the French Antilles

FREN 210 - Spirited Rebellion: Adolescence French Novel and Film

FREN 223 - Surrealist Literature and Art of the 1920s-1940s

FREN 249 - The French-Speaking World In the 21st Century

FREN 256 - Education in 20th Century French Novel and Film.

FREN 297 - Honors

FREN 299 - Directed Study

GEOG 016 - Introduction to Economic Geography

GEOG 017 - Environment and Society

GEOG 020 - American Cities: Changing Spaces, Community Places

GEOG 022 - Why Global Warming Matters I

GEOG 028 - Discover Worcester

GEOG 050 - Africa Today

GEOG 052 - Global Change, Regional Challenges

GEOG 075 - Americans and the Environment

GEOG 080 - Reading the Forested Landscape

GEOG 087 - Introduction to Environmental Information Science

GEOG 090 - Native Americans, Land and Natural Resources

GEOG 101 - Food Justice and Food Movements

GEOG 102 - Weather and Climate

GEOG 104 - Earth System Science

GEOG 106 - Water and the City: A Socio-Hydrology of Worcester and its Environs

GEOG 107 - Miracles of Asia: Economic Growth in Global Contexts

GEOG 110 - Introduction to Quantitative Methods

GEOG 116 - Forest Ecology

GEOG 119 - The Arctic in the Anthropocene

GEOG 126 - Living in the Material World: The Political Geography of Resource Development

GEOG 127 - Political Economy of Development

GEOG 136 - Gender and Environment

GEOG 141 - Research Design and Methods in Geography

GEOG 152 - Geographies of Globalization

GEOG 157 - Psychogeography and Cultural Spaces

GEOG 0170 - Environment and Society

GEOG 172 - City Planet: Urban Challenges in a Globalized World

GEOG 179 - Global and Local Environmental Justice

GEOG 180 - The Earth Transformed by Human Action

GEOG 186 - Special Topics:

GEOG 190 - Introduction to Geographic Information Science

GEOG 201 - Taste, Culture, Power: Historical Geographies of Food

GEOG 205 - Introduction to Hydrology

GEOG 216 - Field Methods for Environmental Science

GEOG 220 - Property and the Global Environment

GEOG 222 - Why Global Warming Matters

GEOG 224 - Economy and Environment

GEOG 225 - Environmental Politics

GEOG 232 - Landscape Ecology

GEOG 237 - Feminism, Nature and Culture

GEOG 238 - Animal Geographies

GEOG 240 - Race and Urban Space

GEOG 245 - Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere

GEOG 246 - Geospatial Analysis with R

GEOG 247 - Intermediate Quantitative Methods in Geography

GEOG 248 - Social Justice and the City

GEOG 252 - Urban Design Research Lab

GEOG 257 - Internet Geography: Socioeconomic Impacts of Information Technologies

GEOG 258 - Utopian Visions, Urban Realities: Planning Cities for the 21st Century

GEOG 260 - GIS & Land Change Models

GEOG 261 - Decision Methods for Environmental Management and Policy

GEOG 263 - The Climate System and Global Environmental Change

GEOG 274 - Africa’s Development in Global Context

GEOG 279 - GIS & Map Comparison

GEOG 280 - Urban Ecology: Cities as Ecosystems

GEOG 282 - Advanced Remote Sensing

GEOG 283 - Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Change

GEOG 286 - Special Topics

GEOG 287 - New Methods in Earth Observation

GEOG 289 - Development Policy

GEOG 293 - Introduction to Remote Sensing

GEOG 296 - Advanced Raster GIS

GEOG 297 - Honors

GEOG 298 - Internship

GEOG 299 - Directed Study

GEOG 301 - Taste, Culture, Power: Historical Geographies of Food

GEOG 304 - Cartography and Map Design (0.5 credit)