Graduate Catalog | 2021-2022 Previous Edition
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GEOG 5160 - The Geography of Transportation Systems
Geographical and human factors that affect the movement of goods and people from place to place. Emphasis on transportation routes and networks, commodity flow patterns and the locational implications of freight rates.
Credit Hours: (3)
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5180 - Web GIS
Introduction to the basic knowledge of, and advance in, Internet/Web GIS. It covers principles, methods, and applications of Web- or Internet-based GIS. Through hands-on laboratory exercises, students develop the skill necessary to use Web GIS software packages for conducting GIS data operations (including query and mapping) and spatial analysis/modeling via Internet.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 6125
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 4180
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5209 - Small Town Planning
Explores small town population dynamics, rural-urban fringe land use dynamics, and changes in small towns’ community identity and sense of place. Emphasis placed on the issues and techniques that typify small town planning environments. Students investigate these issues via field work and data collection at municipal scales within the Charlotte region.
Credit Hours: (3)
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5210 - Urban Planning Methods
Scope and methods of urban planning. Emphasis on analytical techniques, projections, and data sources used in developing comprehensive planning tasks and strategies.
Credit Hours: (3)
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Fall 2020, Fall 2020
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GEOG 5215 - Urban Ecology
An introduction to the emerging field of urban ecology. Explores the biological, physical, and social components of the urban ecosystem at local, regional, and global scales. Emphasis on the interplay among components and the sustainability of cities during lectures, field trips, and group discussions.
Credit Hours: (3)
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5240 - Geography of Knowledge and Information
Examination of the factors that influence the location of economic activities in the information age. Discussions and lectures explore the geographic aspects of the transition away from manufacturing to information processing as the primary mode of production. The transition is examined in terms of technology development, urban and regional development, information flows, and the location of quaternary industry.
Credit Hours: (3)
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5250 - Food, Migration, and Place
As people move in the world, food plays a central role in shaping identity, reproducing myth and ritual, and connecting diasporic communities. This mobility establishes dynamic foodways and gives rise to new food landscapes through which we can understand temporally connected sites of intense interaction. This course unpacks these processes through investigating the dynamics of food production and consumption in a transnational world. Recognizing the centrality of culinary culture in migrant identities, this course focuses on the role of food habits, rituals, and practices in producing and sustaining shared identities and places. Students gain an understanding of these relations through engagement with case studies and literature addressing the complex spaces we inhabit in a transnational world.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 4250
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5255 - Applied Population Analysis
Population data sources; measuring population change; elementary projection and estimation techniques; spatial sampling; migration; survey design; applications in the public and private sectors.
Credit Hours: (3)
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5260 - Transportation Policy Formulation
Structure of transportation policy at federal, state, and local levels including policies concerning highway financing and investments, congestion, safety, and use and development, energy, transit, and the provision of intercity services.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5265 - Transportation Analysis Methods
Procedures for analyzing the operation and performance of transportation systems; includes network planning models, minimum path algorithms and assignments; energy, air pollution, and activity analysis models; and research approaches, data sources, time and activity budgets, infrastructure condition and needs assessment.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of department; statistics recommended.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5310 - Urban Social Geography
Examines the reflexive relationship between society and urban space. Explores the intersection between urban geography and social theory, the evolution of city, community and personal spaces, and the relations and constructions of class, race, gender, and sexuality that shape and are shaped by the urban spaces in which we live and work.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1105 and at least one of GEOG 2200, GEOG 2165, GEOG 3100, or GEOG 3205, or permission of instructor.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 5405 - Urban Field Geography
Intensive field studies of cities of the Carolinas, including one-day and overnight trips to cities of the mountains and coastal areas. Emphasis on day study trips within the Piedmont. Exercises include land-use mapping, trip journals, interviews and comparisons of the results of zoning and urban development practices within satellite cities of the Charlotte Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Credit Hours: (6)
Restriction(s): 6 credit hours of urban-related undergraduate courses or permission of instructor.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6000 - Topics in Urban and Regional Analysis
Examination of major theories, methods, and issues in the area of urban and regional analysis. Instructional method(s) vary according to topic, course objectives, and instructor.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8000
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6005 - Topics in Earth and Environmental Systems
Emerging methods and research frontiers in Earth and Environmental Systems. Course format includes lectures, student-led group discussions of readings, and/or hands-on data collection and analysis in the field or using available datasets.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8005 .
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019, Spring 2020
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6010 - Topics in Geographic Information Science
Examination of major theories, methods, and issues in the area of Geographic Information Science. Instructional method(s) vary according to topic, course objectives, and instructor.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8010
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6015 - Topics in Regional Geography
Intensive examination of major spatial questions in a given region.
Credit Hours: (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6030 - Topics in Geographic Techniques
Cartographic, remote sensing, quantitative techniques or field techniques.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8030 .
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6103 - Real Estate Development
An introduction to the real estate development process. Identification and evaluation of the critical assumptions and issues related to market and site feasibility, financial feasibility, planning, acquisition, and operation of economically viable commercial real estate projects. Students work in groups on a semester project to select a site and prepare an appropriate development plan that emphasizes the market and financial feasibility of the real estate development.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6159 and MSRE 6159 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6105 - Applied Real Estate Development
The application of the processes involved in real estate development. Students work in groups on a semester project to select a site and prepare an appropriate development plan that emphasizes the market and financial feasibility of the real estate development.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 6103 or MBAD 6159 .
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6259 and MSRE 6259 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6115 - Qualitative Methods in Geography
An overview of qualitative research methods commonly used in the geosciences. In addition to reviewing the evolution and theoretical underpinnings of qualitative approaches in the field of Geography generally, the course explores the application and evaluation of various methodologies such as, but not limited to, interviews, focus groups, discourse analysis and participatory research. Issues of research design, rigor, ethics, and communication of qualitative methods are also addressed.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GRAD 6101 or equivalent
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8115
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6120 - Spatial Statistics
Introduction to modern spatial statistics methods and their applications for the analysis of spatial data. Fundamental characteristics of spatial data, including spatial dependence, stationarity, and isostropy are covered. Three main categories of spatial statistics are given focus: spatial point pattern analysis, spatial prediction and geostatistics, and spatial regression. Hands-on practices are given to facilitate the understanding of theories and methods of spatial statistics.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8120 , GRAD 6104 , GRAD 8104 , and INES 8090
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019, Spring 2020
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6121 - Advanced Seminar on Spatial Modeling
This seminar focuses on the theories of spatial modeling and simulation. Topics include, but are not limited to, spatial systems, models for spatial analysis, models for spatial simulation, modeling life-cycle, model verification, validation, and accreditation.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 5131 , GEOG 5132 , or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8121 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6123 - The Urban Region
Examination of the nature of urban regions and the basic factors that shape urban regions as they grow. Impact of: geography; history; social factors; economic factors; concerns about gender, race and ethnicity, and class; and other determinants of the nature of urban regions, their problems, and possible policy solutions.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8123 and PPOL 8610
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6124 - Seminar in Geographic Theory and Practice
Critical examination of trends in the history and philosophy of geographic thought and their application across the human, physical, and methodological domains of the discipline.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8124
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6125 - Geographic Information Science and Technology
Development, current state-of-the-art and future trends in geographic information science and technology. Topics include: Nature of spatial data, scale, representation, projection, topological relationships, data acquisition (geocoding, GPS, Volunteered Geographic Information), data uncertainty, data organization (spatial database), spatial data manipulation and protection (geomasking, aggregation), overlay operations (including spatial join), network analysis, raster and terrain modeling, spatial autocorrelation (global and local), spatial interpolation, spatial and space-time clustering. Concepts of cartographic design are introduced throughout the class. Several applications and laboratory exercises illustrate the concepts set forth in the class.
Credit Hours: (4)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8125
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Fall 2019, Fall 2021
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GEOG 6131 - Research Design Fundamentals
Scientific research and problem-solving. Problem identification, bibliographic search, data sources, collection and management, techniques selection and preparation of reports, proposals, peer review, and publication. Topics also include: human subjects and societal impacts of research, conflict of interest, collaboration, mentorship, and research misconduct.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Prerequisite(s): GRAD 6101 or equivalent
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8131
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6132 - Seminar in Geography
Study of the current trends in geographic thought and research methods.
Credit Hours: (3)
Grading Method: Graded on a Pass/Unsatisfactory basis.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6182 - Agent-Based Modeling of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Introduces an advanced geocomputational approach, agent-based models (ABM, also often referred to as individual based models: IBM), for the simulation of complex adaptive spatial systems in general and coupled human and natural systems, in particular. Covers fundamental theories (e.g., complexity theory and simulation theory), methods (including model design, development, calibration, and validation), and applications (e.g., in natural and social sciences) of ABM/IBM. Focuses on the integration of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) with ABM/IBM that enables the space-time studies of complex geographic phenomena. Hands-on practices are given to facilitate the understanding of modeling theories and methods.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 6125
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6205 - Geovisualization
Cartographic design, representation versus communication, cognitive and perceptual issues, visual variables and color, proportional symbology, choropleth and flow mapping. Exploratory space-time data analysis. Representation of change (space-time) and movement. Interactive, dynamic and animated visualization. 3D geovisualization. Series of exercises in a GIS environment.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 6125
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8205
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Fall 2019
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GEOG 6208 - GIS&T and Urban Regional Analysis
Focuses on the spatial thinking, spatial analytic methods and their GIS applications suited for urban and regional analyses. Modeling approaches include spatial interaction models, spatial optimization methods, spatial diffusion, space-time modeling of individual behavior and integrated transportation land-use models.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8208
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6209 - Social Network Analysis
Focuses on the use of social network analysis to understand the expanding connectivity and complexity of the socioeconomic world at all scales, and to systemically study semantic relationships and emerging social structures, whether they are social organizations, companies, virtual or place-based communities, markets, or politically-defined entities. Discusses how social network concepts, theories, and methods frame a wide range of phenomena within the context of relevant social science theories. Emphasis is placed on applied methods and on developing skills useful in empirical social science research.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GRAD 6101 or equivalent
Pre- or Corequisite(s): GRAD 6101
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8209
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6210 - The Restructuring City
Critical assessment of the causes and consequences of contemporary urban restructuring. Evaluation of theoretical, planning and policy challenges facing urban society associated with global-local change.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8210 and PPOL 8615
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6211 - Cities and Immigrants
Examination of changing patterns and dynamics of immigrant settlement and adjustment in U.S. and Canadian urban areas. Topics include: assimilation and integration, identity formation, trans-nationalism, enclave development, labor market involvement, gateway versus new destinations, immigrant suburbanization, and socio-spatial isolation.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8211
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6212 - Urban Labor Markets
Explores the changing social and spatial structure of urban labor markets in post-industrialized cities. Special reference to immigrant and minority labor markets in the U.S. Topics include: discrimination, industry and occupation concentrations, job queues, ethnic networks, ethnic entrepreneurs, technological change and economic restructuring.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8212
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6214 - Resilience Thinking in Urban/Regional Socio-Ecological Systems
Examines critically the art and science of resilience thinking within the context of urban and regional socio‐ecological systems (i.e., urban resilience) and explores resilience building as both an instrument for, and practice of, urban sustainable development.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8214
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6215 - Urban Identities: Explorations of Power, Inequality, and Identity in Contemporary Cities
Contemporary cities are idealized as cosmopolitan places inhabited by residents of different genders, ethnicities, sexualities, classes, and other identities. Yet each of these intersecting axes of difference contribute to varied experiences, struggles, and uses of urban space. This course examines the production and maintenance of relations of power, inequality, and identity in contemporary cities. Critical frameworks in feminist, critical race, sexuality, post-colonial, and intersectional theory are used to consider the ways that intersecting power relations are spatialized and embodied, shape perceptions and understanding of space and place, and contribute to struggles for the right to the city. Such frameworks are applied to urban processes and problems relating to economic restructuring, housing, poverty, public space, and social movements.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8215
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2020
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6216 - Planning for Urban Sustainability
Engages students in reading, discussion, and guided research on the dilemmas of urban sustainability and planning approaches to address these dilemmas. Examines the concept of sustainability critically, comparing its diverse applications and meanings as a guide for decisions in the built environment. Explores the social and physical structures that make radical change difficult, as well as innovations in city planning like ecological footprinting, climate action planning, smart growth, bus rapid transit, energy-efficient technologies, the sharing economy, and grassroots movements for alternative communities like ecovillages. Although the course engages scholarship from all over the world, and explores innovations in Latin American and some European cities, most of the discussion focuses on problems and solutions specific to the United States.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8216
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2020
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6220 - Human-Environment Interactions
Investigates the inter-relationships between humans and their natural or physical environments. Topics include: human subsistence strategies, natural resource use, and human impact upon vegetation, soil, water, landforms, and climate.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8220
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6221 - Global Ecosystems
A multi-disciplinary course which surveys the history and prehistory of human ecological dynamics, drawing on geology, geography, and ecology to understand the interrelationships between global environmental systems and their inhabitants. Topics include: climatic change and its impacts on biological systems, peopling of new landscapes, anthropogenic vegetation change, extinctions, desertification, invasive species interactions, and changes in human subsistence.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8221
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GEOG 6222 - Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Sciences
A multi-disciplinary course which surveys methods used to reconstruct past climates, past environments and past landscapes during the Quaternary period. Changes in past environmental conditions are discussed in light of present and future landscape predictions emphasizing both natural and human causes. Focuses on biotic and abiotic material from terrestrial and marine sediment cores, ice cores, and other proxies for past environments and past climates.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6222, GEOG 8222 , INES 8222
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6225 - Biogeography
Introduction to the field of biogeography, the study of the distribution of organisms across space and time. Foundational theories and principles in biogeography, as well as emerging research frontiers, are covered in lectures and student-led group discussions of weekly readings.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8225
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6226 - Landscape Ecology
An introduction to landscape ecology, the study of the interplay between spatial pattern and ecological process. Lectures and in-depth group discussions focus on the fundamental and applied aspects of topics such as habitat fragmentation, animal movement in human-dominated landscapes, landscape legacies, road ecology, and landscape planning.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6226 , GEOG 8226 , INES 8226
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GEOG 6227 - Ecosystem Restoration
Ecosystem restoration has long been used as a method to return the natural structure and function to degraded ecosystems. This course examines the theory and methods used in restoration with a focus on both terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Focuses on the science and policy of ecosystem restoration with examples from ecosystems around the world.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6227 , GEOG 8227 , and INES 8227
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GEOG 6229 - Geochemical Tracers and Hydrologic Applications
Examines environmental tracers in surface and subsurface hydrology (streams, lakes, and groundwater) using an applied approach. Tracer techniques include geochemical element fingerprinting, stable isotopes, and residence time estimation.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6229 , GEOG 8229 , and INES 8229
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GEOG 6282 - CyberGIS and Big Data
CyberGIS and Big Data represent two emerging themes in the study of geographic information science. As geospatial technologies advance, big spatial data are increasingly available. However, the processing and analytics of these big spatial data represent a challenge. Cyberinfrastructure-enabled GIS (i.e., CyberGIS) provides solid support for resolving this challenge. The significance of CyberGIS in handling big spatial data analytics has been well recognized. This course focuses on the key capabilities of CyberGIS: high-performance and parallel spatial computing, spatial cloud computing, and big data analytics. It also exposes students to cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure theories, methods, and geospatial applications. Students benefit from this course by learning how to leverage state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure-enabled GIS technologies for the resolution of complex spatiotemporal problems. With training from cyber-enabled GIS and big data, students are very productive in their specific domains and competitive in their future career.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 6125
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8282
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GEOG 6300 - Applied Regional Analysis
Introduction to methods and techniques used in regional analysis. Topical areas include data sources and collection, regional delineation, community and regional profiles, regional accounts, methods of analysis and impact assessment. Topics are discussed in terms of theory, use, and role in economic geography and regional development. Emphasis is placed on application of economic and demographic methods at the regional level.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Basic computer skills including spreadsheets.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8300 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6301 - Industrial Location
Addresses factors influencing the location of industrial and service activities. Classical theories of industrial location are augmented with contemporary interpretations of the economic landscape. Emphasis is placed on theoretical foundations and new developments in industrial location theory, patterns and trends of industrial location, the site selection process, community impacts of locational decision-making, and the role of governments. Patterns and trends are examined in regional, national, and international perspectives.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8301 .
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GEOG 6302 - Regional Economic Development
Neoclassical and contemporary theories of trade, economic geography and urban and regional development. Topics include: theories of urban and regional growth, location theories including industry, central places, and growth centers; human capital, labor force, and entrepreneurial contributions to growth; policy dimensions of urban growth and development are addressed from theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8302 and PPOL 8642 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Spring 2020
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6303 - Geography of Knowledge and Information
Examination of the factors that influence the location of economic activities in the information age. Discussions and lectures explore the geographic aspects of the transition away from manufacturing to information processing as the primary mode of production. The transition is examined in terms of technology development, urban and regional development, information flows and the location of quaternary industry.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8303 .
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GEOG 6304 - The Transforming North Carolina Economy
An examination of the contemporary and historic forces which shape the economic geography of the state. Themes examined will include human-land interactions, past and present economic transitions and the rural-urban balance within the state. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the economic forces which will most dramatically impact the future. Seminar format.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8304 .
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GEOG 6305 - Site Feasibility Analysis
Examination of factors affecting the feasibility of land parcels for commercial and residential development with emphasis on the physical evaluation of a given site, the market support for its intended use, and the financial support for the proposed development.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): MBAD 6258 and MSRE 6258
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Most Recently Offered (Evening): Spring 2019, Spring 2020
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GEOG 6306 - Store Location Research
Market area analysis and site evaluation methods, including the application of multivariate statistical models, spatial interaction-gravity models, and location-allocation techniques to the retail location analysis task.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GRAD 6101 or permission of instructor.
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GEOG 6400 - Advanced Seminar in Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS)
Theoretical aspects of spatial DSS including technical, social, political and psychological consideration; systems design; systems manipulation; and case studies. Three hours of lecture and one two-hour lab per week.
Credit Hours: (4)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 5120 or permission of instructor.
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GEOG 6401 - GIS Programming and Customization
This course consists of tutorials, readings, projects, and discussions of how to customize and to program ArcObjects within various programming environments: to program automatic repetitive tasks, to build their own applications, to write geoprocessing scripts, and to develop and customize the Web applications.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 4120/GEOG 5120 or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8401 .
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GEOG 6404 - Spatial Data Analysis in GIS
Advanced analytical methods used in GIS and spatial data analysis to advance the understanding of spatial patterns and to invoke powerful principles of spatial thinking. Examination of theoretical and conceptual aspects of algorithms used in GIS software to analyze spatial data. Critical assessment of the use, misuse, abuse and limitations of GIS analytical techniques.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 5120 or permission of instructor.
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GEOG 6405 - Three Dimensional Visualization
This course consists of tutorials, readings, projects, and discussions concerned with how geo-visualization techniques can be used to display geographic information driven from spatial analyses in 3D GIS. Students who successfully complete the course are able to understand advanced geographic information systems, focusing on multi-dimensional data models and three-dimensional geo-visualization as spatial analyses tools. In addition, students work on independent and group projects to develop 3D GIS applications such as 3D Urban Simulation System using existing 3D GIS and visualization software.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 4130/GEOG 5130 or permission of instructor.
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GEOG 6406 - Spatial Information and Mobility
Issues related to the collection, storage, and dissemination of data and information used in transportation analysis, planning, and operations. Students are exposed to the functionality of geographic information systems and concepts of Geographic Information Science that enable these tasks, as well as to traditional travel data collection techniques. Advanced data collection and information dissemination approaches are also discussed, including the use of probes, sensors, GPS, and other wireless communication devices. The fundamentals of Intelligent Transportation Systems form a central part of the course. Finally, the state-ofthe- art and future of location-based services and telematics systems is discussed from the perspective of personal mobility and spatial information.
Credit Hours: (4)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 5120 or permission of instructor.
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GEOG 6407 - Geocomputation
The implementation of computational techniques and resources for the exploration and analysis of (large) spatially referenced databases. Provides an assessment of the place and contribution of computational methods in spatial data handling. Explores “new” computationally intensive approaches to doing geography. Topics include: artificial neural networks, machine learning induction algorithms, genetic and other evolutionary algorithms, and other algorithms for spatial data mining.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 5120 or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8407 .
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GEOG 6408 - Spatial Optimization
Spatial Optimization is articulated around the explicit use of GIS tools and techniques to solve coverage, distance-decay problems as well as routing problems integrating geographic information. Case studies in various domains such as urban retailing or transportation. Problem formulation and solution techniques to optimally preserve existing natural reserves, such as reservoir resources or locating natural corridors between biologically rich areas to protect diversity.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 5120 or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8408 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Fall 2020
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GEOG 6500 - Urban Planning: Theory and Practice
Critical assessment of alternative planning theories and their application to planning practices. Examination of economic, political, social, cultural and geographical factors affecting the operations of cities and resource distribution.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8500 and PPOL 8616 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 6501 - Community Planning Workshop
Problem-solving, client-based course designed to give students experience in applying planning theory and methods to actual problems. Types of problems include growth management, land use planning, regional planning, community development, urban design, infrastructure financing, economic development, and environmental management. Students will gain experience compiling and analyzing community scale data, working with citizens, professional planners, and elected officials and preparing oral reports and technical documents. The workshop setting will build upon and extend conventional classroom instructions.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ARCH 6050 and MUDD 5601
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019, Spring 2020
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GEOG 6600 - Transportation Policy
Examination of surface transportation from a public policy perspective. Institutional components and role of government at all levels influencing investment; changes in technology, environment, security, safety, equity, cost-effectiveness, public health and welfare are covered.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8600 and PPOL 8613 .
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GEOG 6612 - Advanced Geography of Transportation Systems
Exploration of transportation systems from a geographic perspective. The course emphasizes the importance of these systems in the past, present and future. The course explores the relationships between the organization of the space economy and transportation, the flow of people, commodity and ideas at different scales of observation from the small picture (urban transportation) to the big, global picture (international transportation), mobility issues in everyday life and in the economy. The social, economic, physical, and political contexts of transportation systems are discussed. The course is also designed to develop analytical capabilities by using a few fundamental techniques of transportation planning and analysis.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GRAD 6101 , GRAD 8101 , or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8612 .
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GEOG 6643 - Rural Development Issues
This course provides research experiences that focus on policy formulation, and demographic, economic and planning issues in rural areas.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
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GEOG 6800 - Directed Problems in Geography
Individual research into geographic topics.
Credit Hours: (1 to 4)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 8800 .
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit one time with change of topic.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018
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GEOG 7900 - Individual Research Project
Individual research report based on directed study of a topic of geographic significance.
Credit Hours: (1 to 6)
Grading Method: Graded on a Pass/Unsatisfactory basis.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit (required minimum total of 6 credits).
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GEOG 8000 - Topics in Urban and Regional Analysis
Examination of major theories, methods, and issues in the area of urban and regional analysis. Instructional method(s) vary according to topic, course objectives, and instructor.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6000
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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GEOG 8005 - Topics in Earth and Environmental Systems
Examination of major theories, methods, and issues in the area of urban and regional analysis. Instructional method(s) vary according to topic, course objectives, and instructor.
Credit Hours: (3 to 4)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6005
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019, Spring 2020
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Fall 2020
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GEOG 8010 - Topics in Geographic Information Science
Examination of major theories, methods and issues in the area of Geographic Information Science. Instructional method(s) vary according to topic, course objectives and instructor.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6010
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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GEOG 8030 - Topics in Geographic Techniques
Cartographic, remote sensing, quantitative techniques or field techniques.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6030 .
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2021
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GEOG 8115 - Qualitative Methods in Geography
An overview of qualitative research methods commonly used in the geosciences. In addition to reviewing the evolution and theoretical underpinnings of qualitative approaches in the field of Geography generally, the course explores the application and evaluation of various methodologies such as, but not limited to, interviews, focus groups, discourse analysis and participatory research. Issues of research design, rigor, ethics, and communication of qualitative methods are also addressed.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GRAD 8101 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6115
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019, Spring 2021
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GEOG 8120 - Spatial Statistics
Introduction to modern spatial statistics methods and their applications for the analysis of spatial data. Fundamental characteristics of spatial data, including spatial dependence, stationarity, and isostropy are covered. Three main categories of spatial statistics are given focus: spatial point pattern analysis, spatial prediction and geostatistics, and spatial regression. Hands-on practices are given to facilitate the understanding of theories and methods of spatial statistics.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GRAD 8101 or equivalent
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6120 , GRAD 6104 , GRAD 8104 , and INES 8090
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019, Spring 2020
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GEOG 8121 - Advanced Seminar on Spatial Modeling
This seminar focuses on the theories of spatial modeling and simulation. Topics include, but are not limited to, spatial systems, models for spatial analysis, models for spatial simulation, modeling life-cycle, model verification, validation, and accreditation.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 5131 , GEOG 5132 , or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6121 .
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GEOG 8123 - The Urban Region
Examination of the nature of urban regions and the basic factors that shape urban regions as they grow. Impact of: geography; history; social factors; economic factors; concerns about gender, race and ethnicity, and class; and other determinants of the nature of urban regions, their problems, and possible policy solutions.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6123 and PPOL 8610
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GEOG 8124 - Seminar in Geographic Theory and Practice
Critical examination of trends in the history and philosophy of geographic thought and their application across the human, physical, and methodological domains of the discipline.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6124
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
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GEOG 8125 - Geographic Information Science and Technology
Development, current state-of-the-art and future trends in geographic information science and technology. Topics include: Nature of spatial data, scale, representation, projection, topological relationships, data acquisition (geocoding, GPS, Volunteered Geographic Information), data uncertainty, data organization (spatial database), spatial data manipulation and protection (geomasking, aggregation), overlay operations (including spatial join), network analysis, raster and terrain modeling, spatial autocorrelation (global and local), spatial interpolation, spatial and space-time clustering. Concepts of cartographic design are introduced throughout the class. Several applications and laboratory exercises illustrate the concepts set forth in the class.
Credit Hours: (4)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6125
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
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GEOG 8131 - Research Design Fundamentals
Problem identification, bibliographic search, data sources, collection and management, techniques selection and preparation of reports, proposals, peer review. and publication. Topics also include: human subjects and societal impacts of research, conflict of interest, collaboration, mentorship, and research misconduct.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Prerequisite(s): GRAD 8101 or equivalent
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6131
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
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GEOG 8205 - Geovisualization
Cartographic design, representation versus communication, cognitive and perceptual issues, visual variables and color, proportional symbology, choropleth and flow mapping. Exploratory space-time data analysis. Representation of change (space-time) and movement. Interactive, dynamic and animated visualization. 3D geovisualization. Series of exercises in a GIS environment
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 8125
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6205
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Most Recently Offered (Evening): Fall 2019
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GEOG 8208 - GIS&T and Urban Regional Analysis
Focuses on the spatial thinking, spatial analytic methods and their GIS applications suited for urban and regional analyses. Modeling approaches include spatial interaction models, spatial optimization methods, spatial diffusion, space-time modeling of individual behavior and integrated transportation land-use models.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6208
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GEOG 8209 - Social Network Analysis
Focuses on the use of social network analysis to understand the expanding connectivity and complexity of the socioeconomic world at all scales, and to systemically study semantic relationships and emerging social structures, whether they are social organizations, companies, virtual or place-based communities, markets, or politically-defined entities. Discusses how social network concepts, theories, and methods frame a wide range of phenomena within the context of releva
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GRAD 6101 or equivalent
Pre- or Corequisite(s): GRAD 6101
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6209
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GEOG 8210 - The Restructuring City
Critical assessment of the causes and consequences of contemporary urban restructuring. Evaluation of theoretical, planning and policy challenges facing urban society associated with global-local change.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 6210 and PPOL 8615
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Fall 2019
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GEOG 8211 - Cities and Immigrants
Examination of changing patterns and dynamics of immigrant settlement and adjustment in U.S. and Canadian urban areas. Topical areas include assimilation and integration, identity formation, transnationalism, enclave development, labor market involvement, gateway versus new destinations, immigrant suburbanization and socio-spatial isolation.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6211 .
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GEOG 8212 - Urban Labor Markets
This course will explore the changing social and spatial structure of urban labor markets in post-industrialized cities. Special reference to immigrant and minority labor markets in the U.S. Topics include: discrimination, industry and occupation concentrations, job queues, ethnic networks, ethnic entrepreneurs, technological change and economic restructuring.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6212 .
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GEOG 8214 - Resilience Thinking in Urban/Regional Socio-Ecological Systems
Examines critically the art and science of resilience thinking within the context of urban and regional socio‐ecological systems (i.e., urban resilience) and explores resilience building as both an instrument for, and practice of, urban sustainable development.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6214
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GEOG 8215 - Urban Identities: Explorations of Power, Inequality, and Identity in Contemporary Cities
Contemporary cities are idealized as cosmopolitan places inhabited by residents of different genders, ethnicities, sexualities, classes, and other identities. Yet each of these intersecting axes of difference contribute to varied experiences, struggles, and uses of urban space. This course examines the production and maintenance of relations of power, inequality, and identity in contemporary cities. Critical frameworks in feminist, critical race, sexuality, post-colonial, and intersectional theory are used to consider the ways that intersecting power relations are spatialized and embodied, shape perceptions and understanding of space and place, and contribute to struggles for the right to the city. Such frameworks are applied to urban processes and problems relating to economic restructuring, housing, poverty, public space, and social movements.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6215
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2020
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GEOG 8216 - Planning for Urban Sustainability
Engages students in reading, discussion, and guided research on the dilemmas of urban sustainability and planning approaches to address these dilemmas. Examines the concept of sustainability critically, comparing its diverse applications and meanings as a guide for decisions in the built environment. Explores the social and physical structures that make radical change difficult, as well as innovations in city planning like ecological footprinting, climate action planning, smart growth, bus rapid transit, energy-efficient technologies, the sharing economy, and grassroots movements for alternative communities like ecovillages. Although the course engages scholarship from all over the world, and explores innovations in Latin American and some European cities, most of the discussion focuses on problems and solutions specific to the United States.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6216
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2020
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GEOG 8220 - Human-Environment Interactions
Investigates the inter-relationships between humans and their natural or physical environments. Topics include: human subsistence strategies, natural resource use, and human impact upon vegetation, soil, water, landforms, and climate.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Permission of instructor
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6220
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GEOG 8221 - Global Ecosystems
A multi-disciplinary course which surveys the history and prehistory of human ecological dynamics, drawing on geology, geography, and ecology to understand the interrelationships between global environmental systems and their inhabitants. Topics include: climatic change and its impacts on biological systems, peopling of new landscapes, anthropogenic vegetation change, extinctions, desertification, invasive species interactions, and changes in human subsistence.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6221
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GEOG 8222 - Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Sciences
A multi-disciplinary course which surveys methods used to reconstruct past climates, past environments and past landscapes during the Quaternary period. Changes in past environmental conditions are discussed in light of present and future landscape predictions emphasizing both natural and human causes. Focuses on biotic and abiotic material from terrestrial and marine sediment cores, ice cores, and other proxies for past environments and past climates.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6222, GEOG 6222 , INES 8222
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GEOG 8223 - Landscape Assessment
An advanced geomorphology course that examines current climatic and/or tectonic geomorphology research topics and methods with a focus on regional or disciplinary issues that varies each offering. Using a variety of field-based quantitative and qualitative techniques such as laser surveys, GPS, trenching and/or coring, students devise and implement a research project that includes two related but separate field sites. Three hours seminar per week with three or four mandatory field trips.
Credit Hours: (4)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6105
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Most Recently Offered (Evening): Spring 2020
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GEOG 8224 - Biogeochemical Cycles
Examines the Earth’s water and major elemental cycles including those of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus and the major crustal elements. Uncertainties in the current state of understanding of global elemental cycles are also explored. Special emphasis is placed on how these cycles are currently being modified through human activities.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6202
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GEOG 8225 - Biogeography
Introduction to the field of biogeography, the study of the distribution of organisms across space and time. Foundational theories and principles in biogeography, as well as emerging research frontiers, are covered in lectures and student-led group discussions of weekly readings.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6225
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GEOG 8226 - Landscape Ecology
An introduction to landscape ecology, the study of the interplay between spatial pattern and ecological process. Lectures and in-depth group discussions focus on the fundamental and applied aspects of topics such as habitat fragmentation, animal movement in human-dominated landscapes, landscape legacies, road ecology, and landscape planning.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6226 , GEOG 6226 , and INES 8226
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GEOG 8227 - Ecosystem Restoration
Ecosystem restoration has long been used as a method to return the natural structure and function to degraded ecosystems. This course examines the theory and methods used in restoration with a focus on both terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Focuses on the science and policy of ecosystem restoration and uses examples from ecosystems around the world.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6227 , GEOG 6227 , and INES 8227
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GEOG 8229 - Geochemical Tracers and Hydrologic Applications
Examines environmental tracers in surface and subsurface hydrology (streams, lakes, and groundwater) using an applied approach. Tracer techniques include geochemical element fingerprinting, stable isotopes, and residence time estimation.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): ESCI 6229 , GEOG 6229 , and INES 8229
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GEOG 8282 - CyberGIS and Big Data
CyberGIS and big data represent two emerging themes in the study of geographic information science. As geospatial technologies advance, big spatial data are increasingly available. However, the processing and analytics of these big spatial data represent a challenge. Cyberinfrastructure-enabled GIS (i.e., CyberGIS) provides solid support for resolving this challenge. The significance of CyberGIS in handling big spatial data analytics has been well recognized. This course focuses on the key capabilities of CyberGIS: high-performance and parallel spatial computing, spatial cloud computing, and big data analytics. It also exposes students to cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure theories, methods, and geospatial applications. Students benefit from this course by learning how to leverage state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure-enabled GIS technologies for the resolution of complex spatiotemporal problems. With training from cyber-enabled GIS and big data, students are very productive in their specific domains and competitive in their future career.
Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 8125
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6282
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 8300 - Applied Regional Analysis
Introduction to methods and techniques used in regional analysis. Topical areas include data sources and collection, regional delineation, community and regional profiles, regional accounts, methods of analysis and impact assessment. Topics are discussed in terms of theory, use, and role in economic geography and regional development. Emphasis is placed on application of economic and demographic methods at the regional level.
Credit Hours: (3)
Restriction(s): Basic computer skills including spreadsheets.
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6300 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2019
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 8301 - Industrial Location
Addresses factors influencing the location of industrial and service activities. Classical theories of industrial location are augmented with contemporary interpretations of the economic landscape. Emphasis is placed on theoretical foundations and new developments in industrial location theory, patterns and trends of industrial location, the site selection process, community impacts of locational decision-making, and the role of governments. Patterns and trends are examined in regional, national, and international perspectives.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6301 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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GEOG 8302 - Regional Economic Development
Neoclassical and contemporary theories of trade, economic geography and urban and regional development. Topics include: theories of urban and regional growth, location theories including industry, central places and growth centers; human capital, labor force and entrepreneurial contributions to growth; policy dimensions of urban growth and development are addressed from theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Credit Hours: (3)
Cross-listed Course(s): GEOG 6302 and PPOL 8642 .
Most Recently Offered (Day): Fall 2018, Spring 2020
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years
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