Intermediate: 300-level
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.GEOG 300. Human Ecology in Geography.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course will examine research approaches in human ecology since its inception early in this century. Emphasis will be placed on the theoretical shifts that have led to its emergence as an important social science perspective. The course will also involve case studies to evaluate the methodological utility of the approach.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to the physical and cultural geography of Canada's newest territory. The course will emphasize the bio-physical heterogeneity of the natural environment and the cultural and political ecology of the human population.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline [Fall 2021]GEOG 305. Soils and Environment.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Discussion of the major properties of soils; soil formation, classification and mapping; land capability assessment; the role and response of soils in natural and disturbed environments (e.g. global change, ecosystem disturbance).
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline [Fall 2022]GEOG 308. Remote Sensing for Earth Observation.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A conceptual view of remote sensing and the underlying physical principles. Covers ground-based, aerial, satellite systems, and the electromagnetic spectrum, from visible to microwave. Emphasis on application of remotely sensed data in geography including land cover change and ecological processes.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline [Winter 2020]GEOG 310. Development and Livelihoods.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline [Winter 2024]GEOG 311. Economic Geography.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Different theories and approaches to understanding the spatial organization of economic activities. Regional case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Asia used to reinforce concepts. Emphasis also on city-regions and their interaction with the global economy.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.GEOG 314. Geospatial Analysis.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Overview of both the theoretical and applied aspects of geographic information science and systems. Topics will include spatial analysis techniques, geographic models as abstractions of the real world, spatial data manipulation and management, and conceptual issues related to geographic data and technology. Introduction to a number of leading commercial software including ESRI鈥檚 ArcGIS Pro.
Outline [Winter 2025]
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.GEOG 315. Urban Transportation Geography.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Discusses the history and development of urban transportation systems, as well as problems and potential solutions from a geographic perspective. Specific topics include analysis of the social, economic, and environmental impacts; interaction of land use and transportation systems; the analysis of urban travel behaviour; and the implications of various policy alternatives.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline [Fall 2024]GEOG 316. Political Geography.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The study of the spatial dimensions of political activities and developments at the regional, national and global levels in historical and contemporary perspective. Presentation of case studies relating to the theoretical framework of political geography.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The earth-atmosphere system, radiation and energy balances. Surface-atmosphere exchange of energy, mass and momentum and related atmospheric processes on a local and regional scale. Introduction to measurement theory and practice in micrometeorology.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Quantitative, experimental study of the principles governing the movement of water at or near the Earth's surface and how the research relates to the chemistry and biology of ecosystems.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline [Winter 2023]GEOG 325. New Master-Planned Cities.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This course examines the origins, designs, motivations and cultural politics of planned cities, focusing primarily on those currently under construction in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A variety of themes will be explored including design responses to urban pollution and over-crowding, 'new' cities from earlier decades, totalitarianism and the city, utopianism, 'green' cities, and 'creative' cities. The course examines the various motivations underlying the design and construction of planned cities and how they are shaped by power, religion, and political ideologies. There will be a focus on evolving concepts used in city design as well as the continuities and cultural revivalism expressed through urban design and architecture. Students interested in urban and cultural geography, cities, architecture and planning in different cultural contexts will enjoy this course.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.GEOG 331. Urban Social Geography.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Social space and social time. The reflection of social structure in the spatial organization of the city. Historical perspective on changing personal mobility, life cycle, family structure and work organization. The appropriation and alienation of urban spaces.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.听GEOG 333. Introduction to Programming for Spatial Sciences.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to conceptual and practical aspects of programming for the spatial sciences, focusing on programming concepts and techniques irrespective of the specific programming language, framework, or software. Topics include spatial data structures, flow control, classes and objects, and basics of geospatial data modeling and analysis.
Outline [Fall 2024]
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Multiple regression and correlation, logit models, discrete choice models, gravity models, facility location algorithms, survey design, population projection.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examines challenges to sustainability through a series of case studies to illustrate the analytical approaches used to understand the linkages between scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional, ethical, and human behavioural aspect of systems. Includes cases that are thematic and place-based, national and international, spanning from the local to global scales.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.GEOG 372. Running Water Environments.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The course focuses on the physical habitat conditions found in streams, rivers, estuaries and deltas. Based on the laws governing flow of water and sediment transport, it emphasizes differences among these environments, in terms of channel form, flow patterns, substrate composition and mode of evolution. Flooding, damming, channelisation, forestry impacts.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline [Winter 2023]GEOG 381. Geographic Thought and Practice.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Critical perspectives of the history and practice of the discipline, considering different paradigms and theoretical approaches that have been influential in its development. Possible methods, ethical debates, and other processes involved in conducting geographical research.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline [Fall 2022]GEOG 384. Principles of Geospatial Web.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Theory and practice of geospatial web, including examining spatial data accuracy and uncertainty of user generated content; Understanding motivations of contributors of volunteered geographic information for purposes like citizen science and crisis mapping; Critically evaluating political, societal, economic and legal issues in online mapping applications; Developing geospatial applications and identifying basic problem solving requirements for geospatial apps. For proposed 鈥╯olutions, evaluating and justifying various existing and emergent geospatial technologies and enabling software stacks; Exploring underlying methods of digital earth architectures; Understanding implications to geospatial analysis and visualization of real time streaming data and mobile sensors
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.GEOG 396. Undergraduate Research Project.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Independent research project with a final written report.