GEOG 500 Contemporary Geographic Thought

GEOG 502 Professional Writing in Geography

GEOG 505 Research Seminar: China

GEOG 506 Research Seminar: Southeast Asia

GEOG 507 Research Seminar: Canadian Problems
Consideration of the spatial dimensions of Canadian socioeconomic, cultural, and political development, with emphasis on resource potentials and relations with the United States, Japan, and other important trading partners. Prerequisite: GEOG 308 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with SISCA 507.

GEOG 512 History of Geographic Thought
Historical development of modern geography. Emphasis on various philosophical and methodological debates in geography and the contexts from which they emerged. Investigates geography's foundational concepts and institutions; how they have responded to -- and influenced -- the world around them. Offered: A.

GEOG 513 Research Grant Workshop
Writing research proposals. Participants learn to identify and approach sponsors; practice the peer-review process; develop a competitive research proposal. Prerequisite: GEOG 512 or GEOG 515 or equivalent; training and experience with quantitative, qualitative, or cartographic analysis; an already-formulated research project.

GEOG 515 Evidence and Explanation in Geography
Introduces the main strands of philosophical debate shaping the discipline of human geography, including description, prediction, explanation, abstraction, structuration, representation, and institutionalization. Focuses on ways "theories" from outside the discipline have shaped the questions and concerns of geographers, and the ways geography reworks such theories. Offered: Sp.

GEOG 520 Research Seminar: Geographic Information Representation
Current issues in geographic information representation for geographic information systems (GIS). Includes representation for visualization, databases, and analyses. Prerequisite: one course in GIS.

GEOG 526 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Geography

GEOG 531 Latin American Development Seminar
Evolution of development theory in Latin America from a spatial perspective. Theories and development issues, using case studies from Latin America. How geographers have conceptualized development problems and solutions. Prerequisite: GEOG 430.

GEOG 532 Rural Development Seminar
Contemporary issues in international development theory related to regional and agrarian change, with emphasis on Africa.

GEOG 533 Research Seminar: Russia and the Newly Independent States

GEOG 536 Advanced Research Seminar on South Asian Geographies
Examines geographies of social inequality in South Asia through reference to how space, place, and the environment are shaping practices of political struggle in the region. Considers how liberalization, democratization and religious communalization are changing the political geography of South Asia. Offered jointly with SISSA 536, Sp.

GEOG 538 Research Seminar: Geography of Transportation

GEOG 540 Research Seminar: Industrial Geography
Offered: W.

GEOG 541 Research Seminar: Feminist Geographies
Explores major research themes in feminist geographies. Particular attention to the concept that gendered identities and spaces are discursively (re)produced. Emphasizes recent feminist scholarship that emphasizes difference, as well as the intersections between gender, "race," ethnicity, sexuality, age, nationality, class, and other social identities and divisions. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 541; W.

GEOG 542 Research Seminar: Social and Population Geography

GEOG 543 Research Seminar: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Employment
Employment patterns and outcomes for immigrants and ethnic minorities. Emphasis is on the U.S. experience and topics covered include labor market segmentation, theories of discrimination, job/labor queues, networks, ethnic niches and enclaves, skills and spatial mismatches. Specific focus changes annually.

GEOG 544 Event History Analysis of Social and Spatial Change
Examines life course research using event-history analysis with applications to the substantive areas of household dynamics, family formation and dissolution, marriage, cohabitation, and divorce, migration histories, residential mobility, and housing careers. Examines continuous- and discrete-time longitudinal models during practical laboratory sessions.

GEOG 550 Research Seminar in Location Theory
Current research topics in economic and business geography. Focus shifts from year to year. Examples include spatial structures and economic development, economic geography of information, transaction cost perspectives of the location problem, and relationships between organization theory and theories of spatial organization.

GEOG 553 Advanced Topics in Cultural Geography
Focuses on important contemporary topics in cultural geography. Examines current theoretical debates in anthropology, sociology, geography, feminist criticism, and cultural studies as they relate to the landscape. Include critical questions surrounding issues of representation and ethnography. Designed to help student prepare for advanced fieldwork. Offered: Sp.

GEOG 560 Research Seminar: GIS Analysis
Current research topics in geographic information systems. Particular emphasis on analytical methods, and their use in practical circumstances. Prerequisite: graduate status in GIS or related field. Offered: Sp.

GEOG 563 Algorithms and Data Structures for Geographic Information Systems
Anatomy of a software package for geographic information processing. Emphasis on analysis of algorithmic complexity and software design techniques. Presents dynamic data structures, persistence of temporal data, and data flow algorithms. Prerequisite: GEOG 460, GEOG 465, and CSE 326 or CSE 373.

GEOG 567 Research Seminar: Geography and Economic Development
Explores ways in which economic and social changes affect the well-being and development of subnational, regional economies. Explanatory roles of such factors as labor and labor institutions, governments, technical change, corporations, capital markets, information costs, and international trade in the process of global restructuring. Specific focus changes annually.

GEOG 570 Research Seminar: Natural Resources Analysis

GEOG 571 Research Seminar: Critical and Normative Ecologies
Engages in an ecocritique of mainstream managerial environmentalisms by unearthing their ideological bases, and delves into the ethical underpinnings of ecological resistance struggles or green utopias such as ecofeminist, deep and social ecology, and environmental justice movements. Offered: A.

GEOG 573 Urban Political Geography: Research Seminar
Covers both classic and contemporary theoretical debates and research on the relation between power, place, and the local scale. Considers both conventional sites (e.g., the local state) as well as new forms and locations of city politics (e.g., sexuality and the body).

GEOG 574 Research Seminar: Geography, Law, and Social Control
Explores relationship between the construction and enforcement of law and the landscape of lived experience; reviews major approaches in socio-legal analysis and seeks to augment these with insights from contemporary human geography research; explores various ways in which geographical variance shapes legal behavior.

GEOG 575 Advanced Political Geography
Provides resources for theorizing how politics shapes and is shaped by geographical relationships. Examines how politics are situated in complex material and discursive geographies that are partly reproduced through political negotiations. Examines interrelationships of contemporary capitalism with other complex systems of social and political power relations. Offered: jointly with SIS 575.

GEOG 577 Research Seminar: Internal Spatial Structure of Cities
Offered: A.

GEOG 578 Research Seminar: Theorizing the City
Considers classic and contemporary writings in urban theory in the twentieth century, including social ecology (Chicago School), political economy, and contemporary theoretical debates in poststructuralism, deconstructionism, and culture as they relate to cities and space. Offered: W.

GEOG 580 Medical Geography
Geography of disease, consideration in health systems planning. Analysis of distributions, diffusion models, migration studies. Application of distance, optimal location models to health systems planning; emergency medical services; distribution of health professionals; cultural variations in health behavior. Prerequisite: familiarity with social science research; health-related issues. Offered: jointly with HSERV 586; W.

GEOG 581 Seminar in Medical Geography
Intensive research seminar dealing with new and promising research themes in medical geography and public health. Offered: jointly with HSERV 585; A.

GEOG 588 Advanced Urban Ecology
Discussion of current and important theoretical and empirical papers in urban ecology. Students continue to research interdisciplinary urban ecology projects while developing publishable manuscripts and oral presentations. Offered: jointly with CFR 588; AWSp.

GEOG 597 Tutorial for Graduate Students
Introduces beginning geography students to the main research agendas of the faculty; identifies the range of current discourse communities formed by current faculty and graduate students; establishes a process of mentoring and long-term planning for each new graduate student. Credit/no credit only. Offered: A.

GEOG 598 Geography Colloquium
Participation in, and critique of, student thesis and dissertation research, faculty research, and visitor contributions. Offered: AWSp.

GEOG 599 Effective Teaching of Geography
Designed for the ongoing development of effective teaching and professional skills. Topics/activities include micro-teaching, communications and presentation skills; course organization, time management, personal and small group dynamics; design of geography curricula using simulations and computer-assisted instruction in the classroom, and fostering of creative thinking. Credit/no credit only. Offered: A.

GEOG 600 Independent Study or Research
Offered: AWSpS.

GEOG 700 Master's Thesis
Offered: AWSpS.

GEOG 800 Doctoral Dissertation
Offered: AWSpS.