Cultural Geography Courses

* Courses available solely for graduate students.

GEOG 120. Introductory Economic Geography (3 cr) - Basic factors influencing the location of economic activity. Influence of space and location on the evolution and development of economic systems. World and regional patterns of economic activities.

GEOG 140. Introductory Human Geography (3 cr) - Human populations, cultures, and landscapes, with particular attention to human-environment relations and global interconnections. Students who have previously taken GEOG 100 may not receive credit for GEOG 140.

GEOG 181. Quality of the Environment (3 cr) - Analysis of human's role in altering the quality of the environment through their impact on eco-health, transformation of the landscape, and spatial organization and behavior.

GEOG 198. Special Topics in Geography (1-3 cr) - Offered from time to time by faculty members who wish to examine current problems in geography. May take a variety of forms including the freshman seminar and minicourse.

GEOG 242. The Geographical Background to World Affairs (3 cr) - Outline of the geographical background to some of the world's major problems associated with the utilization of the resources of the earth. Series of lectures dealing with general problems, proceeding to regional appraisals.

GEOG 283. Space, the Environment and You (3 cr) - Experiments to help individuals develop awareness of the extent to which their feelings and behavior are influenced by the spatial and environmental dimensions of their surroundings.

GEOG 334. Historical Geography of the Great Plains (3 cr) - Traces the sequence of the human occupancy of the Great Plains from prehistoric times to the present. Focus on the changing perception and utilization of the Great Plains environment, leading to the emergence of a distinctive contemporary region.

GEOG 361. Urban Geography (3 cr) - Geography of cities and metropolitan areas of the past, present, and future. Spatial structures of urban settlements in North America and elsewhere examined both theoretically and descriptively.

GEOG 398. Special Topics in Geography (1-24) Prerequisite: Permission. Selected topic possessing areal implications.

GEOG 399. Independent Study in Geography (1-24 cr) Prerequisite: Permission.

GEOG 399H. Honors Course. (1-4 cr) Prerequisite: Open to candidates for degrees with distinction, with high distinction, and with highest distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences and to seniors and especially to qualified juniors, with the consent of the instructor.

GEOG 400/800. Seminar in Great Plains Studies (GPSP 800) (3 cr) Prerequisite: A course in the study of the Great Plains or permission. Interdisciplinary; topic varies. GPSP/GEOG 400 is required for Great Plains Studies major or minor.

GEOG 406/806. Spatial and Environmental Influences in Social Systems (3 cr) - How space, spatial structure, and spatially oriented behavior operate in social systems, emphasizing their influence on interpersonal communication and/or social exchange.

GEOG 443/843. Industrial Location (2-3 cr) - Factors influencing US industrial firms' selection of regions and specific communities, how communities endeavor to attract new industry, and industrial development agencies and industrial plants.

GEOG 444/844. Geodemographics: Theoretical Concepts and Practical Applications (3 cr) - Geodemography analysis and interpretation of geographical patterns of population size, population composition and population change. Emphasis on applications of geodemographic techniques in fields such as retail site selection, marketing research, environmental impact analysis, public facilities planning, electoral redistricting and the operation and maintenance of socio-economically oriented geographic information systems (GIS).

GEOG 447/847. Political Geography (3 cr) - Importance of factors of a physical, economic, and human character in political development at local to global scales; international geopolitical aspects of environment, territoriality, core areas, capitals, and boundaries; national geopolitical patterns of voting, representation, public administration and public policy.

GEOG 448/848. Pro-seminar in International Relations I (AECN 467; ANTH, HIST 479/879; ECON, POLS466/866) (3 cr) - For course description, see POLS 466/866. Open to students with an interest in international relations. Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission.

GEOG 478/878. Pro-seminar in Latin American Studies (ANTH, HIST, EDPS, MODL, POLS, SOCI 878) (3 cr, max 6) Prerequisite: Permission. Topical seminar required for all Latin American Studies majors. Interdisciplinary analysis of the mechanics and consequences and of cultural continuity and social change in Latin America.

GEOG 497/897. Internship in Geography (1-6 cr) Prerequisite: Permission. Applying geographic training with on-the-job learning.

GEOG 498/898. Advanced Special Problems in Geography (1-24 cr) Prerequisite: Permission. Topic varies.

* GEOG 899. Masters Thesis (6-10 cr) Prerequisite: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major advisor.

* GEOG 902. General Seminar (1-2 cr, max 3)

* GEOG 931 Comparative Studies of the Dispossession of Indigenous Peoples (3 cr) - Dispossession of the indigenous peoples of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States from a historical, spatial, and interdisciplinary approach. Emphasis on human rights, including topics such as the legal assumptions of colonization, reduction of land holdings, population loss, resistance, and land claims.

* GEOG 933. Seminar in Geography and Anthropology (ANTH 953) (1-3 cr, max 6)

* GEOG 935. Seminar in Historical Geography (1-3 cr, max 6) - Discussion of current literature and research on selected aspects of historical geography. Specific theme of course varies according to the instructor.

* GEOG 940. Seminar in Human Geography (1-9 cr, max 9) - Structure of settlement patterns and the factors influencing their development.

* GEOG 983. Seminar on Behavioral Processes in Person/Environment Relations (3 cr) Prerequisite: Senior-level masters degree candidate or PhD-level in human geography or design or planning or any of the social and behavioral disciplines or permission. GEOG 983 consists of four, participant-led, research/discussion sessions. Environments as potentially significant components of behavioral episodes based on the premise that places, settings, or environments provide the contexts for and arena within which people act, interact, and transact. Significance of the physical/sociocultural surrounds derived not solely from their physical presence, but from them, meaning attached to them, and their importance. Topics: common importance to person/environment relations to diverse interests concerned with individual and group behavior in everyday, natural settings; how people experience their environments or "environmental knowing" through perceptual/cognitive processes; environmental representations, images, schemas, and/or cognitive "maps"; and attributions of meaning and significance to environments.

* GEOG 996. Non-thesis Research (1-4 cr, max 24) Prerequisite: 24 hours of geography and permission.

* GEOG 999. Doctoral Dissertation (1-24, max 55) Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission from supervisory committee chair.