Foundation Courses
(Note - Number of credits follows the class title
Instructor name shown in all capitals in course description)

GEOG 326  Introduction to Geographic Research 5

FALIT-BAIAMONTE Introduction to the tools of geographic research. Topics include defining problems, designing research, and methods for gathering and operationalizing statistics. Provides experience defining a geographic research problem, collecting and analyzing data, and drawing conclusions from that endeavor.

GEOG 360* Principles in Cartography 5

NYERGES Origins, development, and methods of cartography. Principles of data representation and map design for thematic and topographic mapping. Introduction to the use of computers for mapping.

GEOG 397* Tutorial for Majors 1

NYERGES Overview of the discipline of geography including faculty research interests, teaching philosophies, and course offerings as well as essential study and research skills and career developments strategies. Students meet concurrently with faculty adviser to identify academic interests and devise plan of studies.

Concentration

GEOG 230 Urbanization in Developing Nations 5

LAWSON Cities in their cultural and economic contexts, geographical patterns of cities, and internal city structure. Problems facing these rapidly growing cities and selected policy solutions.

GEOG 344** Migration and the Global Economic Order 5

Mitchell Analyzes the relationship between human mobility in the late 20th century and changes in the global economy. Allows the students to gain familiarity with scholarly research on international migration from a diversity of approaches and methods.

GEOG 371*** World Hunger and Resource Development 5

Jarosz Addresses issues of hunger and poverty in their relationship to resource development at the local, national, and global levels. Examines various approaches to the problem of world hunger rooted in critical development studies.

GEOG 445* Population Distribution 5

Withers Relation of population distribution to environment, economic development, and culture. Frontier and rural settlement, urbanization, and suburbanization. Regional variation in age, ethnicity, fertility, and mortality. Causes and effects of migration from the world to the local scale.

GEOG 495*** Global Political Ecologies JHAVERI 5

Electives

GEOG 207 Economic Geography 5

Harrington The changing locations and spatial patterns of economic activity, including: production in agriculture, manufacturing, and services; spatial economic principles of trade, transportation, communications, and corporate organization; regional economic development, and the diffusion of technological innovation.

GEOG 277 Geography of Cities 5

HODGE Study of 1) systems of cities-their location, distribution, functions, and competition; and 2) their internal structure-the location of activities within urban areas. Particular emphasis on current urban problems-sprawl, housing, segregation, economic growth, and metropolitan transportation.

GEOG 349** Geography of International Trade 5

Harrington Examines international production and the circulation of commodities. Resource extraction and the international division of labor established during colonialism; production and trade during the period of empire and subsequent core-periphery relations; contemporary movement of commodities; role of the state in different economics, and growing Pacific Rim influence.

GEOG 370 Problems in Resource Management 5

ZumBrunnen Principles and practices of effective conservation and utilization of natural resources. Role of technology in resource use. Physical, political, and economic aspects of resource management for food, population, land, water, air, energy, and timber resources.

GEOG 448 Geography of Transportation 5

HAYUTH Circulation geography, principles of spatial interaction emphasizing commodity flow, the nature and distribution of rail and water transport, the role of transport in area development.

GEOG 471** Methods in Resource Analysis 5

ZumBrunnen Economic and noneconomic criteria for resource analysis. Theory and methods of linear models of natural resource analysis. Includes materials-balance modeling, residuals management, constrained system optimization approaches to water quality analysis, land-use patterns and interregional energy use, and multiple objective planning techniques applied to natural resource problems.

GEOG 492* Library Research in Geography 2

ZALD Introduction to library research methods in geography. Review and assessment of geographical bibliographies and abstract services for monographs, periodicals, gazetteers, dictionaries, encyclopedias, government publications, and statistical sources.

GEOG 495*** Global Political Ecologies   5

SISAF 444*** African Studies Seminar 3

DINERMAN Opposition Politics and Revolutionary Movements in Contemporary Southern Africa

"This course will critically examine the politics of liberation and the challenges of national development in Southern Africa from a comparative perspective.  Our case studies will be Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.  All three countries are young nations.  All three gained freedom from white supremacist rule after years of guerrilla warfare prosecuted by African nationalist movements based in exile which then acceded to state power.  In both post-colonial Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and in post-apartheid South Africa, the new governments enjoyed immense popularity at the start of their tenure in good measure because they had fought for, and bore the promise of, fundamental social, political and economic change. And in all three cases, these governments have suffered significant declines in support in recent years.

We will seek to understand why this is the case, probing for parallels as well as contrasts among the historical experiences of the countries in question.  In the course of our investigation we will survey the following topics:  the history and legacies of white minority rule and of the struggle for national liberation; the terms of the transfer of power; the transformation of nationalist movements into ruling parties; the ideology, political practices and policies of these parties as incumbents, including their attempts at forging national identities, presiding over "national reconciliation," and dealing with domestic opposition and dissidence; the vulnerability of the Mozambican, Zimbabwean and South African governments to actual or threatened externally-sponsored destabilization and internally-based insurgency; and the constraints posed by underdevelopment, the global economy and geo-politics.

In order to receive credit, students will be expected to write bi-weekly response papers and a 15-page research paper, as well as to give one class presentation." (Alice Dinerman - quoted from E-mail received 11/5/98)

URBDP 300 Introduction to Urban
Planning 5

Ludwig Principles and theories of urban structure and institutions. Concepts and logic of planning as a community process and a professional activity. Evolution of planning ideas in response to changing social, economic, and environmental conditions within the American political framework. Complementary nature of public and private responsibilities. Major procedures used by planners.

Total Credits in this Summary 81

Total Credits at Graduation 197.5

* Course in progress.

** Registered for Winter Quarter 1999.

*** Planned for Spring Quarter 1999.

All other courses are completed.