Co-op Work Placement I
First co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students
Co-op Work Placement II
Second co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Co-op Work Placement III
Third co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Co-op Work Placement IV
Optional co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Work Placement V
Optional co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Co-op Training and Development
Framework for the development of learning objectives for individual work terms. Includes orientation to the co-op experience, goal setting, career planning, résumé preparation and interview skills preparation.
Lectures, presentations, site visits, 2 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Introduction to Human Geography
Practical and problem-oriented examination of spatial patterns of human organization and their links with social, cultural, economic, political and ecological processes.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Principles of Physical Geography
The interactions of atmosphere, soils, vegetation and landforms occurring at the surface of the Earth. The development of natural environments and impacts upon people and their activities.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Co-op Relective Learning and Integration I
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academic studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N01.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
Co-op Reflective Learning and Integration II
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academic studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N02.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
Co-op Reflective Learning and Integration III
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academics studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N03.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
Co-op Reflective Learning and Integration IV
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academic studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N04.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
Co-op Reflective Learning and Integration V
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academic studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N05.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
Introduction to Social Geography
Understanding the connections between space, society and knowledge; minds and bodies, communities, cities and streets, nations, economies and institutions, and ruralities.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Economic Geography
(also offered as LABR 2P02)
Growth of the world economy since 1500 AD and how this shapes the location of manufacturing, agriculture and services today. Contemporary impact of global economic forces and their roots in the growth of worldwide trading networks, colonialism, the Industrial Revolution, the Fordist crisis and transition to post-Fordism.
Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and LABR majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90, LABR 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Urban Geography
Basic concepts and problems underlying the growth of cities, the urban system, land-use patterns in the city and urban policy making.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Introduction to Meteorology
(also offered as ERSC 2P04)
Principles, structure, composition and processes of the atmosphere; its energy budget, moisture balance and motion. Weather forecasting in middle and low latitudes, forecasting techniques and special problems in applied meteorology.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F91, ERSC 1F01 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TREN 2P04.
Earth Surface Processes
(also offered as ERSC 2P05)
Earth surface processes and geomorphology within global environments. A dynamic and physically based account of processes and the Earth's surface, linking the fields of sedimentology, physical geography and fluid mechanics.
Lectures, lab, field work, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F91, ERSC 1F01 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TREN 2P05.
Cultural and Historical Geography
(also offered as PCUL 2P06)
Interactions among culture, society and landscape. The material and symbolic manifestations of culture in processes of landscape change.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, COMM 1F90, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
Foundations of Geomatics
(also offered as ERSC 2P07 and IASC 2P07)
Introduction to spatial, metric, graphic and other concepts common to cartography, photogrammetry, remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). Properties of maps, air photos and satellite imagery. Principles of map compilation and design. Practical experience in computer mapmaking, image interpretation and GIS analysis.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and IASC (single or combined), ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90, 1F91, ERSC 1F01 or permission of the instructor.
Principles of Biogeography
(also offered as ERSC 2P09)
Autoecological aspects of soils and plants including the human impact at all scales. Patterns of soils and plants and their explanation. Spatial patterns of soils and vegetation communities and their explanation.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BIOL, and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F91, CHEM 1F92, ERSC 1F01 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TREN 2P09.
Qualitative Research Design and Methodology
Aspects of qualitative research: project formulation, methodologies, writing-up; relation of theory and methodology.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Research Methods in the Geosciences
(also offered as ERSC 2P11)
Appraisal of scientific method. Problems of research design and the acquisition of information from the field by mapping, instrumental measurement, sampling and the use of published and unpublished data sources. Quantitative analysis of data, interpretation and the communication of results.
Lectures, lab, seminar, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F91, ERSC 1F01 or permission of the instructor.
Quantitative Research Design and Methodology
Introduction to basic concepts and techniques in descriptive and inferential statistics. Measures of central tendency and dispersion; populations and samples; correlation coefficients; bivariate regression; probability theory; Law of Large Numbers; Central Limit Theorem; Normal-, Z- and t-distributions; hypothesis testing. Naturalist and anti-naturalist epistemology. Realist and anti-realist ontology. The relationship between research questions and research designs.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in MATH 1P98.
Resource and Environmental Geographies
Analysis of the relation between resources, global environmental dynamics, and the management of uncertainty. Emphasis on the changing pattern of energy flows.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, 1F91, ERSC 1F01, 1F90, INTC (INTL) 1F90, TREN 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Introduction to Oceanography
(also offered as ERSC 2P15)
Overview of the oceans, their origin, composition, circulation, geology and biota, from the costal zone to the abyss. Importance of oceanography to humans, history of oceanography, overview of marine hazards and resources, ocean-atmosphere interactions and the global climate.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F91, ERSC 1F01, 1F90, BIOL 1F90.
Sedimentology
(also offered as ERSC 2P16)
Basic clastic sedimentology (grain size, shape, porosity/permeability, fabric) including fundamentals of unidirectional and oscillatory water flows, sediment transport under such flows and resulting sedimentary structures. Clastic rock classification.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F91 or ERSC 1F01.
Earth Science Methods
(also offered as ERSC 2P17)
Introduction to the study and description, in the field and the lab, of surficial deposits, sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks; structural analysis of geological maps and imagery.
Lectures, lab, field trips, 6 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F91 or ERSC 1F01.
Geography of Canada
Analysis of factors underlying the development of Canada's distinctive regions emphasizing major metropolitan areas, resource regions and areas of decline.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: major credit will not be granted to GEOG majors.
Introduction to Soil Science
(also offered as OEVI 2P97)
Physical, chemical, biological, and hydrological processes within the soil system, their interrelationships, and relationships between these processes and the potential use of the soil. Emphasis on soils in Southern Ontario and individual student analysis of those soils.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and OEVI majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
London Field Course
Growth and development of London as a global city, capital of Britain and major metropolitan area through an examination of its major functions, institutions, peoples and internal spatial structures; major planning issues involved in achieving an enriched urban environment.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3F92.
Environmental and Development Issues in Thailand
Examination of development approaches, environmental issues and cultural practices through visits to small-scale village projects, national parks and urban areas. Assessment of the traditional versus the Western-style economy within the context of sustainable development. Environmental constraints on development.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
London-Paris Field Course
Contrasts and similarities between London and Paris in terms of their roles as global cities, national capitals, metropolitan cities and local places; examination of major functions, institutions, people and internal spatial structures. Focus on planning issues in achieving an enriched urban environment.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3F90.
Costa Rica Field Course
Natural tropical environments occurring along a cross-country transect. Historical and contemporary uses and development of these different environments. Current management practices within the context of environmental sustainability.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses and ensure all required vaccinations have been obtained before departure.
Map Design and Production
Advanced aspects of map design. Methods of statistical mapping. Evolution of cartographic technology. Monochrome and colour map production using Adobe Illustrator. Issues and trends in cartography.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P07 or permission of the instructor.
Geographic Information Systems
(also offered as ERSC 3P05 and IASC 3P05)
Principles and use of computer-based systems for capturing, managing, manipulating, analysing and displaying data relating to the Earth's surface, emphasing raster applications. Practical work using Idrisi.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and IASC (single or combined), ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P07 or permission of the instructor.
Remote Sensing
(also offered as ERSC 3P07)
Theory and practice of remote sensing. Photographic, thermal, multispectral, radar and laser imaging of the Earth's surface from airborne and spaceborne platforms. Image interpretation and image-analysis techniques.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P07 or permission of the instructor.
Climate and Winegrape Production
(also offered as OEVI 3P12)
Climatological aspects of winegrape production emphasizing selected wine regions of the world. Effects of climate, weather-related diseases, topography, soil and viticulture practices on winegrape production.
Lectures, lab, field work, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and OEVI majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P04 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students enrolled in the OEVI program and OEVI certificate students are permitted to register without the prerequisite.
Applied Climatology
(also offered as ERSC 3P13)
Studies in selected topics from the field of energy and moisture exchanges, air pollution, climatic change, climatic impact assessment and bioclimatology. Human impact on the climate along with applied micro-climatological investigations and climatic data analysis.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P04 or permission of the instructor.
Glacial Geomorphology/Geology
(also offered as ERSC 3P24)
Introduction to glaciology; glacial processes, glacial deposits; their genesis and sedimentology. Relationship of glacial processes to landforms and surface topography. Glacial systems and facies associations. Applied aspects of glacial geology such as drift exploration.
Lectures, lab, field work, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P05 or permission of the instructor.
Quaternary Geology
(also offered as ERSC 3P25)
Glaciations in the geological record, causes of glaciations, biotic responses to climatic changes, eustatic and isostatic sea level changes in response to glaciation, Quaternary stratigraphy and correlation of glacial and non-glacial events, application of Quaternary geology to economic and environmental problems, methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P24, ERSC 2P16 or permission of the instructor.
Glacial Soils and Sediments
(also offered as ERSC 3P26)
Applied aspects of glacial deposits. Geotechnical and pedochemical properties and structural attributes of glacial soils and sediments. Micromorphology, glacial soil discontinuity analyses. Introductory aspects of soil mechanics. Drift exploration. Landfill problems and issues related to glacial soils and sediments.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P24, 3P25 or permission of the instructor.
Biodiversity
(also offered as ERSC 3P33)
Dispersal and migration; adaptation; speciation; extinction; ecological interaction; species invasion; plant and animal introductions; habitat fragmentation and application of biogeographical theory to conservation biology; human impacts on fire regimes.
Lectures, lab, field work, 6 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P09, BIOL 2P05, 2Q04 or permission of the instructor.
Biomonitoring and Environmental Stress Assessment
(also offered as ERSC 3P35)
Use of biodiversity indicators, field methods and passive and active sensors to assess environmental quality. Collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data to investigate urban air and water pollution and forest health.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 10.0 overall credits and permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P09, ERSC 1F01, BIOL 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: one-week field study in the last week of the summer session with labs for 3 hours per week during the Fall term. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Fluvial Geomorphology
(also offered as ERSC 3P36)
River basins, channel morphology, flood frequency analysis, elementary flow mechanics and sediment transport; analysis of river records; long term changes in river systems. Introduction to HEC-RAS flow modelling.
Lectures, lab, 6 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P05 or permission of the instructor.
The Modern City in Historical Perspective
The modern city and its public spaces, including city and park planning and urban reform. Historical investigation of class, race and gender as they intersect with the bourgeois production of the public city. Planning and design, politics, economy and culture from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P01 and 2P06 or permission of the instructor.
Urban Growth Processes and Planning
Economic, social and political forces underlying population growth, land-use change and spatial expansion in cities in advanced industrial societies. Technological innovations and urban morphology. Urban planning issues relating to suburbanization, small-town development, urban countryside, new towns, urban sprawl versus containment and intensification, and the loss of valuable resource areas.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P02, 2P03, 2P06 or permission of the instructor.
Resource Management: Discourses, Policies and Ethics
Ethical and political implications of competing discourses of both human and natural resource management. Emphasis on the production and uses of power from the level of individual leadership and network-building to that of the global governance of resources.
Lectures/ seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P02, 2P13, POLI 2F20, 2F30, SOCI 2P73, SPMA 2P05, TREN 2P11 or permission of the instructor.
Popular Music, Identity and Place
(also offered as PCUL 3P51)
Examines links among places, music and cultural identities focussing on globalization, migration and mobility, place identity, music tourism and the role of companies and technology in music's diffusion, innovation and commercialization.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P01, 2P02, 2P06, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
Community Development and Social Planning
Geographical approach to conceiving community and planning for community empowerment. Theories and empirical studies from Canada and around the world.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P10 or permission of the instructor.
Physical Geography Field Course
Application of geographical principles and field techniques to problems in physical geography.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): completion of year 2 GEOG requirements in the BSc GEOG (single or combined) programs.
Note: field work in September in the week following Labour Day. Students must register with the Department by April of the preceding academic year. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3P57.
Human Geography Field Course
Application of geographical principles and field techniques to problems in human geography.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): completion of year 2 GEOG requirements in the BA GEOG (single or combined) programs.
Note: field work in September in the week following Labour Day. Students must register with the Department by April of the preceding academic year. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3P56.
Geography of Transportation
Geographical aspects of transportation, emphasizing the automobile dependence problem, including its causes, consequences and potential solutions. Sustainable transportation and its implications for land use planning, transportation and urban design.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P01, 2P02, 2P03, 2P06, 2P13 or permission of the instructor.
Themes in Contemporary Rural Geography
Geographic perspectives on social, economic and environmental change in rural settings. Emphasis on issues and challenges facing rural communities and regions within industrialized nations.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P01, 2P02, 2P03, 2P06, 2P13 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 4P65.
Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning
Evolution of planning theory and history. Investigation of key concepts in planning since the late 19th century. Current trends and challenges in urban and regional planning.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P03 or permission of the instructor.
Geography of Cultural Industries
(also offered as COMM 3P69 and PCUL 3P69)
Theories and models of cultural production including, Cave's organizational model of cultural industries, Scott's model of cultural-product agglomerations, Veblen's theory of the leisure class, and Bourdieu's work on the creative field and habitus. Geography of artistic attraction and regional impacts of cultural policies.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), COMM and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P01 or 2P06; GEOG 2P02, PCUL 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
Geography and Gender
(also offered as WISE 3P74)
Work of feminist geographers. Relationships between gender and space across scales, including scale of the body, domestic space, public spaces, the city, nation and globally.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and WISE (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P02, 2P03, 2P06, WISE 2P90, 2P91 or permission of the instructor.
Nature, Development and the Politics of Knowledge
(also offered as INTC 3P79)
Recent theories regarding the social construction of nature and their implications for refiguring the colonial and postcolonial history of development and for envisioning a more just world order. Analysis of the production of old and new knowledge of nature and of their translation into environmental and development polices.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P13, TREN 2P28, 3P19, 3P21, POLI 2F20, 2F30, ENGL 2P52, SOCI 2P73, 2P85, WISE 2P96, HIST 2P99 or permission of the instructor.
Geography and International Development
(also offered as INTC 3P80)
Analysis of international development theory, policy and practice. Development's relation to globalization, imperialism and neo-colonialism. Development solutions to environmental problems. Selected case studies from the developing world.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90, INTC (INTL) 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Geography of Water Resources
(also offered as ERSC 3P83)
Physical and human factors affecting patterns of use and development of water resources. Emphasis on patterns of supply and demand, approaches to development and management of the resource, problems and alternative strategies.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, 1F91, ERSC 1F01 or permission of the instructor.
Themes in Political Geography
Introduction to political geography with primary emphasis on contemporary themes, including geopolitics, economic globalization, global sustainability theory, evolution and emergent issues of the nation-state, new regionalism and place-based politics, and the local-global role of the new social movements.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P02, 2P06 or permission of the instructor.
Ecology of a Changing Planet
(also offered as BIOL 3P85 and ERSC 3P85)
Impact of environmental change and human activity on ecosystems. Topics include climate change and global warming, habitat fragmentation, extinction, invasive species, conservation biology and the management of ecological integrity.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P09, BIOL 2P05, 2Q04.
Themes in Cultural Geography
Geographies of culture and cultural politics emphasizing heritage issues focussing on ways in which relationships of power become manifest in material and symbolic landscapes.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P06 or permission of the instructor.
Themes in Historical Geography
Literature, philosophies and methodologies of historical geography, including sections exploring the traditions of the field as well as current debates. Uses and limitations of primary source materials such as newspapers, oral traditions and government documents.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P06 or permission of the instructor.
Volcanology
(also offered as ERSC 3P90)
Survey of volcanoes, their distribution, forms, composition, eruptive products and styles, and potential hazards.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F91, ERSC 1F01, 1F90; GEOG 2P05; one of CHEM 1F92, MATH 1P97, 1P98, one-half PHYS credit numbered 1P21 to 1P93.
Chicago Field Course
Cultural and historical geographies of Chicago. Emphasis on the urban spectacle of the modern city and the contrasting geographies of race and class inequalities through the examination of public space, architecture, housing and suburbanization, and cultural production.
Restriction: permission of the Department
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Advanced Field Methods in Quaternary Science
(also offered as ERSC 3P92)
Introduction to Quaternary landscape evolution in Alaska. Mapping of active glacial margins, analysis of stagnant ice terrain, paleosol mapping, relative dating techniques, glacial hydrology, subglacial sediment sampling, surface exposure dating and lake/bog coring. Collecting, recording and interpreting field data and preparing a comprehensive field report.
Lectures, 1 hour per week; fieldwork, 2 weeks.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: lectures will be held at Brock University during winter term and fieldwork will be held in Alaska during spring/summer session. Students must be a minimum of 18 years of age, have a valid passport and are expected to pay their own expenses.
Niagara's Changing Economic Geography
(also offered as LABR 3P93)
Changes in Niagara's industries and occupations; international trade and specialization; circular and cumulative causation; agglomeration and the contemporary world economy; regional growth machines; economic restructuring and income inequality; deindustrialization; agricultural decline; tourism; structural unemployment; brain drain and transition to cognitive-cultural economy.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P02, 2P03 or permission of the instructor.
Note: GEOG 2P12, MATH 1P98, SOCI 2P13 or equivalent is recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3P47.
Advanced Geographic Information Systems
(also offered as ERSC 3P95)
Further study of geographic information systems emphasizing vector and database applications and advanced analytical operations. Practical work using Idrisi and MapInfo Professional.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P05.
Field School-Quaternary Geology
(also offered as ERSC 3Q99)
Field and laboratory methods for analysis of Quaternary landscapes based on field sites including fluvial, hillslope, coastal, glacial, and biosphere examples.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P17.
Special Topics in Geography
Topics selected from year to year on the basis of faculty expertise.
Selected Field Studies and Directed Readings
Application of geographical methods and techniques to the analysis of field data and problems; two weeks of field work in a selected area.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: experience in hiking and wilderness travel recommended.
Honours Thesis
Individual research project carried out under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) majors with a minimum 80 percent major average and approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the Department.
Note: students contemplating a thesis must consult with the Department by March 15 of the preceding academic year. Regulations governing the thesis may be obtained from the Administrative Co-ordinator. A detailed proposal must be submitted in writing before May 1 prior to entering year 4.
Honours Internship
Internship on a specific geographic problem or task under either the direction of a faculty member, or in a government or private agency working under the supervision of that agency.
Internship, 8 hours per week for 15 weeks; seminar, 3 hours per week for 9 weeks.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Advanced Cartography
Research, discussion and synthesis of a selected issue in modern cartography or the conception, compilation and design of a map illustrative of a specific theme.
Lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P04 or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Remote Sensing
(also offered as ERSC 4P07)
Theory and practice of in situ, airborne and spaceborne remote sensing. Emphasis on techniques used to study natural and human-made environments. Topics include data acquisition and preprocessing, image analysis, accuracy assessment and the production of information products. Image processing and analyses using commercially available image-analysis software.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P07 or permission of the instructor.
Critical Approaches to Applied Social Research Design
(also offered as POLI 4P11 and SOCI 4P11)
Application of social science skills in community and public-sector settings, including various qualitative and quantitative research strategies to empower communities and inform social policy development. Includes evaluation of a community agency or social program of choice.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), CHYS (single or combined), POLS (single or combined) and SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P10, 2P12, CHYS 3P10, 3P15, POLI 2P80, SOCI 2P11 or permission of the Department Administrator.
Research Topics in Applied Climatology
Climatological investigations of selected problems in winegrape production, air pollution and climate change.
Seminar, lab and field work, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P04 and 3P13 or permission of the instructor.
Research Topics in Climatic Hazards
Special topics relating to climatic hazards, their impacts and societal adjustments.
Seminar, lab and field work, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P04 and 3P13 or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Fluvial Geomorphology
(also offered as ERSC 4P26)
Steep, rough river systems emphasizing boulder bed and rock bed channels.
Seminar, lab, field work, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P36 or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Glacial Sedimentology
(also offered as ERSC 4P28)
Sedimentology of present day glacial environments and of Quaternary sediments. Thermo-mechanical principles of glacier physics as applied to past and present glacier ice conditions. Glacial lithofacies associations. Glacio-tectonics and diagenesis. Principles of glacial erosion, entrainment and deposition.
Lectures, lab, field work, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P24, 3P26 or permission of the instructor.
Cities and Globalization
Major debates on urban change under the impact of globalization. Topics include relations between economic restructuring and urban form, spatial relations within and among cities, social and cultural composition in globalizing cities, and the role of architecture and urban design.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P53 or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Geography of Music
Selected debates, themes and research topics examining the relationships among music, cultural identity, political economy and place.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 3P51, 3P69, 3P84, 3P86, 3P87 or permission of the instructor.
Queer Geographies
Contemporary conceptual and theoretical research on sexuality, gender, embodiment and space. Topics include geographies of sexualities, queer and trans geographies.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P01, 2P06, 3P74, 3P86 or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Urban-Economic Geography
Conceptual and theoretical background to recent developments in global cities and service industries.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one GEOG credit numbered 2(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 from group A.
Research Themes in Urban-Economic Geography
Methodological and ethical issues related to empirical research on global cities and service industries.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 4P60 or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Transportation Geography
Selected debates, themes and research topics related to urban transportation. Application of geographical knowledge and skills to selected local transportation problems.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in the registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P60 or permission of the instructor.
Geography of Rural Development and Tourism
Overview of tourism as it intersects with rural development theory, processes and planning. Examination of various social, environmental, cultural and economic problems, consequences and opportunities of tourism in a rural development context. Incorporates examples of rural festivals, wineries and agri-tourism in order to understand appropriate rural tourism development.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P63.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3P65.
Advanced Urban and Regional Planning
Evolution of planning theories based primarily upon the work of influential planning figures and visionaries. Application of planning skills to selected local and regional growth and development problems.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P66 or permission of the instructor.
Economic Growth and Urban Expansion in Developing Countries
Theories and realities of economic growth and urbanization with reference to East Asia. Topics include economic and industrial policies and strategies of three countries, China, Japan and Korea, and their impacts on urban life in the post-war era.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in the registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P02, 2P03 or permission of the instructor.
Social Movements and Globalization
(also offered as POLI 4P68 and SOCI 4P68)
Restructuring of social movements from around the world in new alliances for global justice. Topics may include relationship between local and global scales, cross-cultural collaboration, tensions between unity and diversity, conflicts and unequal power relations in networks and North-South inequalities. Movements may include indigenous movements, transnational feminism, the anti-corporate globalization movement and environmentalism.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), POLS (single or combined) and SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to Year 4 (honours).
Advanced Cultural and Social Geography
Selected debates and theoretical themes in the spatiality of culture and social well-being.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P01, 3P51, 3P53, 3P80, 3P86, 3P87 or permission of the instructor.
Research Themes in Cultural and Social Geography
Methodological and ethical issues related to empirical research on the spatiality of culture and social well-being.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P01, 3P51, 3P53, 3P80, 3P86, 3P87 or permission of the instructor.
Landscapes of Knowledge, Power and Resistance
Thematic consideration of different notions of knowledge, power and resistance, as forms of geographical phenomena, and contested conceptualizations of identity, subjectivity, social relations and spaces in Western landscapes.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 3P74, 3P79, 3P86, 3P87 or permission or the instructor.
Resources and Social Movements
Conflicts over resource use and distribution and the mobilization of social movements with strong disruptive potential for political and economic life. The dynamics of these conflicts in relation to the role of the media and to processes of globalization.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 3P50, 3P74, 3P79, COMM 3P15, 3P93, HIST 3P52, 3P75, POLI 3P21, 3P33, PSYC 3P33, SOCI 3P66 or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Topics in Labour Geographies
Relationship between the geographies of the brain and the geographies of labour. Emphasis on the relevance of psychoanalysis and neuroscience for understanding workplace performance and the uneven geography of human resources.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P01, 2P02, 3P50, 3P74 or permission of the instructor.
Research Themes in Water Resources
Major debates and conflicts over water resources and their distribution. Topics include the environmental, social, economic and political aspects of water, water resources and their management.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P83 or permission of the instructor.
Cities and Public Space
Politics and policies governing streets and public spaces of the modern metropolis, and the various social responses to them.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one credit from GEOG 2P01, 2P06, 3P86 or permission of the instructor.
Ecosystems and Changing Disturbance Regimes
(also offered as BIOL 4P85 and ERSC 4P85)
Terrestrial ecosystem response to large-scale environmental change. Topics may include disturbance regimes, adaptation, alteration of biogeochemical cycles, invasive species and range shifts, carbon cycle feedbacks, predicting future climate and vegetation impacts, change detection, scaling-up and nonlinearity.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P85 or permission of the instructor.
Advanced Historical Geography
Spatial and temporal articulations of power relations. Selected debates examining the relationships among power, identity, and place in Canadian settings.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 3P51, 3P69, 3P74, 3P86, 3P87 or permission of the instructor.
Critical Engagements in Contemporary Human Geography
Major theoretical, conceptual and philosophical approaches influencing contemporary Western geographical thought and practice including representations of truth, knowledge, power and reality, nature of research questions and methodological considerations.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Directed Readings I
Topic not covered in the Department's regular course offerings.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the tutorial.
Directed Readings II
Topic not covered in the Department's regular course offerings.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the tutorial.
Soil Physics
Analysis of fundamental processes occurring within the physical environment of soils including the structural, mechanical and rheological properties of porous materials. Characterization, measurement and movement of soil water under both transient and steady state conditions. Seasonal changes in soil physical properties.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P97 or permission of the instructor.