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FRENC 696 - Topics in French Studies
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Eighteen upper division units in French.
Intensive study in specific areas of French. May be repeated with new content.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Credit for 596 and 696 applicable to a master’s degree with approval of the graduate adviser.
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FRENC 700 - Seminar: A Major French or Francophone Author
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Eighteen upper division units in French.
In-depth study of works of a major French or Francophone author. Maximum Credits: six units applicable to a master’s degree.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content.
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FRENC 710 - Seminar in a Literary Genre
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Eighteen upper division units in French.
Study of a specific literary genre, e.g. poetry, novel, theater. Maximum Credits: six units applicable to a master’s degree.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content.
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FRENC 720 - Seminar in French and Francophone Culture and Civilization
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Eighteen upper division units in French.
Study of a specific topic in French and Francophone culture and civilization. Maximum Credits: six units applicable to a master’s degree.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content.
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FRENC 798 - Special Study
Units: 1-3
Grading Method: Cr/NC/RP
Prerequisite(s): Advancement to candidacy and approval of graduate adviser.
Individual study. Maximum Credits: three units applicable to a master’s degree.
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FRENC 799A - Thesis
Units: 3
Grading Method: Cr/NC/RP
Prerequisite(s): An officially appointed thesis committee and advancement to candidacy.
Preparation of a project or thesis for the master’s degree.
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FRENC 799B - Thesis Extension
Units: 0
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Prior registration in Thesis 799A with an assigned grade symbol of RP.
Registration required in any semester or term following assignment of RP in Course 799A in which the student expects to use the facilities and resources of the university; also student must be registered in the course when the completed thesis is granted final approval.
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FRENC 799C - Comprehensive Examination Extension
Units: 0
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Completion or concurrent enrollment in degree program courses.
Registration required of students whose only requirement is completion of the comprehensive examination for the master’s degree. Registration in 799C limited to two semesters.
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GEN S 100A - University Seminar
Units: 1
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Prerequisite(s): Open only to freshmen.
Provides opportunities to interact with faculty and staff in a small group setting. Students acquire study and interpersonal skills for academic and personal success. Special sessions are offered featuring campus resources including library, advising, career, health and wellness services.
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GEN S 100B - University Seminar: Learning in Communities
Units: 0
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Open only to freshmen.
Provides opportunities to interact with faculty and staff in a small group setting. Students acquire study and interpersonal skills for academic and personal success. Special sessions are offered featuring campus resources including library, advising, career, health and wellness services.
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GEN S 100C - University Seminar: Living/Learning Community
Units: 0
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Open only to freshmen.
Provides opportunities to interact with faculty and staff in a small group setting. Students acquire study and interpersonal skills for academic and personal success. Special sessions are offered featuring campus resources including library, advising, career, health and wellness services.
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GEN S 147 - Data Literacy: Human Choices Behind the Numbers
Units: 3 GE
How social scientists use data, presentation of empirical analysis, and role of assumptions and choices in analyses.
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GEN S 150 - Building Your Future Self for Success in College and Beyond
Units: 3 GE
First-year students will meet one another where they are, build community, and explore how the latest interdisciplinary research, strategies, and tools can help cultivate success in academic and life pursuits as they develop and realize their future selves.
Note: Not open to students with credit in GEN S 100A , GEN S 100B , or GEN S 100C .
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GEN S 200 - Professional Experience and Community Service
Units: 1-3
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Twelve units of college credit, minimum grade point average of 2.0, concurrent participation in professional or community service activity, and approval of course contract.
Academic work designed with faculty approval to complement concurrent paid or unpaid professional or community service experience.
Note: Information and course contract forms available in Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement, AD-220. Applications must be submitted to the division prior to the end of the first week of classes. May be used to satisfy major or minor requirements only upon written approval of department chair. No combination of General Studies 200 and GEN S 400 in excess of six units may be counted for credit toward a bachelor’s degree.
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GEN S 203 - Foundations of Cultural Competency
Units: 3
Cultural self-awareness, ethnocentrism, individual biases, institutional oppression, microaggressions, race relations. Historical background of racism. Impacts on current majority-minority relationships. Formerly Numbered Education 203.
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GEN S 250 - Interdisciplinary Topics
Units: 1-4
Interdisciplinary selected topics course. To enroll contact the faculty adviser of the department offering the course. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: four units.
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GEN S 255 - Bounce Back Retention Seminar
Units: 1
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Academic probation students only. All participants sign Institutional Review Board (IRB) consent form.
In a highly interactive, small group setting, students learn a variety of skills, such as time management, test taking, class preparedness, and study skills, in order to strengthen performance. Students learn what personal attributes contribute to academic success and learn how to recognize and expand on these characteristics.
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GEN S 280 - Introduction to Civic Engagement
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Civic engagement through service learning. Collective action and global citizenship. Civic dimensions supporting democratic engagement. Civic capacities and literacies for social responsibility. One to two hours of weekly community service required.
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GEN S 290 - Introduction to Undergraduate Research
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): LING 200 or RWS 200 with a grade of C (2.0) or better.
Basic principles and practices of research inquiry. Design and methodology of three research paradigms (mixed methods, qualitative, quantitative) and proposal preparation.
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GEN S 299 - Special Study
Units: 1-3
Prerequisite(s): Consent of department chair and instructor.
Individual study.
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GEN S 340 - Confronting AIDS
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.A. Natural Sciences and Quantitative Reasoning.
Examines the AIDS epidemic from historical, epidemiological, biological, medical, psychological, political, legal, and ethical perspectives.
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GEN S 350 - Interdisciplinary Topics
Units: 1-4
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Interdisciplinary selected topics course. To enroll contact the faculty adviser of the department offering the course. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: four units.
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GEN S 400 - Professional Experience and Community Service
Units: 1-3
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing, minimum grade point average of 2.0, concurrent participation in professional or community service activity and approval of course contract.
Academic work designed with faculty approval to complement concurrent paid or unpaid professional or community service experience.
Note: Information and course forms available in Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement, AD-220. Applications must be submitted to the division prior to the end of the first week of classes. May be used to satisfy major or minor requirements only upon written approval of department chair. No combination of GEN S 200 and 400 in excess of six units may be counted for credit toward a bachelor’s degree.
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GEN S 420 - Disability and Society
Units: 3 GE
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
Explores the range of the disability experience; examines society’s attitudes toward individuals and the interrelationship between societal institutions and the perception of people with disabilities. Contemporary issues with particular emphasis on disability culture, ableism, and inclusion.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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GEN S 450 - Life and Culture Semester Abroad
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
Life and culture of a foreign country through an approved semester abroad program sponsored by an academic department or program at SDSU. Requires lecture attendance, excursions and site visits, examinations and written reports.
Note: See Class Schedule for geographic location.
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GEN S 480 - Engaged Citizenship and Social Responsibility
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): GEN S 280 , upper division standing, and minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Fieldwork in multidisciplinary analyses of civic citizenship and social responsibility through participatory action research and inquiry driven service in pluralistic communities. Service paradigms for engaged citizenship. Students will be required to complete nine hours of supervised fieldwork per week and to attend weekly meetings with instructor.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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GEN S 490 - Undergraduate Research
Units: 1-3
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
Research and creative activities to include preparation for qualitative and quantitative empirical research projects. Identify problem, formulate research question, design small-scale investigation, collect and analyze data, present findings, and may include creative and performing arts projects. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: six units.
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GEOG 101 - Earth’s Physical Environment
Units: 3 GE
Earth systems and the global environment to include weather and climate, water, landforms, soils, and ecosystems. Distribution of physical features on Earth’s surface and interactions between humans and environment, especially those involving global change.
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GEOG 101L - Earth’s Physical Environment Laboratory
Units: 1 GE
Three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in GEOG 101 .
Observations, hands-on experiments, and practical exercises involving weather, climate, soils, running water, landforms, and vegetation. Includes map fundamentals and interpretation, analysis of airborne and satellite imagery. Designed to supplement GEOG 101 .
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GEOG 102 - People, Places, and Environments
Units: 3 GE
Introduction to human geography. Global and local issues to include culture, development, migration, urbanization, population growth, identity, globalization, geopolitics, and environmental change. Field trips may be arranged.
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GEOG 103 - Weather and Climate
Units: 3 GE
The composition, structure, and circulation of the atmosphere, including elementary theory of storms and other weather disturbances.
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GEOG 104 - Geographic Information Science and Spatial Reasoning
Units: 3 GE
Fundamental concepts in geographic information systems, cartography, remote sensing, spatial statistics, and global positioning systems. Use of critical technologies in addressing human and environmental problems.
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GEOG 106 - World Regional Geography
Units: 3 GE
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Regional approaches to social, political, economic, environmental, and cultural interactions. Colonialism, globalization, development, environmental issues, and geopolitics.
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GEOG 170 - Sustainable Places and Practices
Units: 3 GE
Sustainability from a geographic perspective, focusing on role of everyday practices in creating sustainable places. Case studies illustrate geographic variations in the social organization of people/nature relationships and emphasize connections across global, local, and individual scales.
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GEOG 296 - Experimental Topics
Units: 1-4
Selected topics. May be repeated with new content.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor’s degree.
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GEOG 303 - Severe Weather
Units: 3 GE
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.A., Natural Sciences and Quantitative Reasoning required for nonmajors. Recommended: GEOG 101 or GEOG 103 .
Physical processes, human responses, and mitigation strategies related to atmospheric hazards, including blizzards, wind storms, severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves, floods, and drought.
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GEOG 312 - Culture Worlds
Units: 3 GE
Geographical characteristics and development of major cultural realms of the world. Spatial components of contemporary conflict within and between these regions.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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GEOG 320 - California
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s) recommended: GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 .
Systematic and regional analysis of physical and cultural landscapes of California. Availability and use of water resources. Human patterns of population and migration, economic activities, and urban and ethnic landscapes. Field trips may be arranged.
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GEOG 321 - United States
Units: 3 GE
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s) recommended: GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 .
Systematic and regional analysis of physical, cultural, environmental, and economic landscapes of the United States. Current and relevant regional process and issues to include sustainability, physical processes, socioeconomic change and development, cultural dynamics.
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GEOG 324 - Latin America
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s) recommended: GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 .
People, places, and environments of the region to include geographic dimensions of colonialism, territorial evolution and geopolitics, rural and urban livelihoods, and contemporary patterns of socio-spatial inequality.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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GEOG 336 - Europe
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s) recommended: GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 .
Systematic analysis of the geographic bases of modern European life. Regional investigation of countries of Europe.
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GEOG 340 - Geography of Food
Units: 3 GE
Production, distribution, sale, consumption, and preparation of food from a geographic perspective. Key concepts in human and physical geography by exploring the environmental, political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of food.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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GEOG 348 - Environment and Development
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 102 or GEOG 106 or GEOG 170 or ANTH 102 or SOC 101 or SOC 102 .
Geographic analysis of environmental and social issues in the global south. How colonialism, development, and globalization have shaped equity and sustainability issues and access to resources, environmental health, migration, and poverty around the world. Field trips may be arranged.
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GEOG 353 - Economic Geography
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s) recommended: GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 .
Geographic relations of production, exchange and consumption; trade and economic development; location of economic activities; globalization and economic transformations at the national, regional, and local scales; institutional, social, political, environmental, and cultural aspects of economic activities in various places.
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GEOG 354 - Geography of Cities
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s) recommended: GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 .
Survey of the location, function and spread of cities; the spatial and functional arrangement of activities in cities, leading to an analysis of current urban problems: sprawl, city decline, metropolitan transportation. Field trips may be arranged.
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GEOG 370 - Conservation Science and Policy
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
Scientific understanding of human-environment systems; sustainable management of natural resources under changing global conditions; role of science in addressing environmental issues and development of environmental and conversation policy.
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GEOG 375 - Environmental Hydrology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 or GEOG 103 or ENV S 100 [or SUSTN 100 ] or GEOL 104 .
Hydrological processes to include precipitation, surface water, groundwater, water quality, and ecohydrology. Impact of human activities on water resources.
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GEOG 380 - Map Investigation
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 or GEOG 104 .
Use of the map as an analytical tool in geography. History of developments in cartography.
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GEOG 381 - Computerized Map Design
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 or GEOG 104 .
Art and science of creating digital maps as media for describing and analyzing geographic phenomena. Computer laboratory instruction and practice in cartographic techniques with emphasis on thematic maps and geographic information systems.
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GEOG 383 - GIS Scripting Fundamentals
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): CS 107 .
Geospatial data processing, analysis, and modeling by scripting languages using Python and R and Structured Query Language for PostgreSQL.
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GEOG 385 - Spatial Data Analysis
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 ; STAT 250 or comparable course in statistics.
Analysis of spatially distributed data including computer applications. Spatial sampling, descriptive statistics for areal data, inferential statistics, use of maps in data analysis.
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GEOG 395 - Introduction to the Major
Units: 1
Introduction to the dimensions of the field of geography, to the courses and faculty, and to the learning objectives by which course and student outcomes are assessed.
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GEOG 401 - Geomorphology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 .
How surface processes to include wind, water, ice, and gravity shape the Earth’s landforms. May include field trips, ranging from investigation of local beaches and deserts to exploration of geomorphic forces shaping Yosemite National Park.
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GEOG 409 - Global Climate Change
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 or GEOG 103 .
Global climate system and feedbacks with biosphere. Past climates and potential future changes, including changes in greenhouse gases, ozone depletion and acid rain. Predictions and uncertainty regarding changes including natural and anthropogenic causes.
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GEOG 426 - Regional Field Studies
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 or ENV S 100 .
Regional analysis to include physical, cultural, environmental, economic geography at the field level. Specific field techniques/topics taught in lecture and applied in the field. Required field trip of one week to 10 days.
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GEOG 440 - Food Justice
Units: 3
Same As: POL S 440
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 102 or POL S 102 .
Food justice from perspectives of theory, institutions, markets, law, ethics, social mobilization, politics, and ecology. Political strategies, capabilities of food justice organizations; movements aimed at creating fair, healthy, sustainable food systems locally and globally.
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GEOG 454 - Sustainable Cities
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 354 .
Political and economic forces shaping the structure and organization of cities; physical and human consequences of urbanization; environmental, economic and social sustainability of cities. Housing, transportation, land use, urban services, employment, segregation, and social inequality.
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GEOG 484 - Geographic Information Systems
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): Three units from GEOG 380 , GEOG 381 , GEOG 591 , or from computer programming.
Procedures for encoding, storage, management, and display of spatial data; theory of computer-assisted map analysis; examination of important geographic information systems.
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GEOG 495 - Geography Capstone
Units: 1
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 395 with a grade of C (2.0) or better for Geography majors.
Synthesis of knowledge gained by students in upper division geography courses at SDSU, based on in-class essays and creation of a portfolio outlining learning experiences in geography. Practical information to prepare for professional employment.
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GEOG 496 - Selected Studies in Geography
Units: 3
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Prerequisite(s): Six units in geography.
Critical analysis of problems within a specific field of the discipline. Field trips may be arranged. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: six units.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor’s degree.
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GEOG 498 - Senior Thesis
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): An overall grade point average of 3.0 and consent of department.
A written thesis based on an individual research project.
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GEOG 499 - Special Study
Units: 1-3
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Individual study. Maximum Credits: six units.
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GEOG 503 - Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Biophysical Processes
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 409 , ENV S 301 , GEOL 305 , or graduate standing.
Modeling, nature, and principles of land-atmosphere interaction processes to include heat and water fluxes and applications for assessing the impacts of land-cover change on climate.
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GEOG 506 - Landscape Ecology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 . Recommended: GEOG 370 or GEOG 385 .
Links between landscape patterns and ecological processes at a variety of spatial scales to include causes and measures of landscape patterns, effects of landscape patterns on organisms, landscape models, landscape planning and management.
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GEOG 507 - Geography of Natural Vegetation
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 , BIOL 100 , or ENV S 100 [or SUSTN 100 ].
The natural vegetation formations of the world and their classifications, development, distribution, and environmental influences to include relationships to human activities. Field trips may be arranged.
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GEOG 509 - Regional Climatology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 , GEOG 103 , or ENV S 100 [or SUSTN 100 ].
Regional distributions of Earth’s climates and basic principles governing atmospheric processes that control global distributions of climate types.
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GEOG 511 - Hydrology and Global Environmental Change
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 or GEOG 103 .
Hydrologic processes and regimes, how these are affected by environmental change and how hydrologic process and regimes affect patterns of environmental change. Processes operating at global, regional, and local scales are examined, including land-use/land-cover change and climate change.
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GEOG 512 - World on Fire
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 or GEOG 103 or BIOL 100 or ENV S 100 [or SUSTN 100 ] or GEOL 100 or GEOL 104 .
Wild-land fire processes, controls, and effect on soils, water resources, and vegetation in contrasting ecosystems. Fire regimes and mitigation strategies. Fire research.
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GEOG 554 - World Cities: Comparative Approaches to Urbanization
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 354 .
Worldwide trends in urbanization. Case studies of selected cities from various culture areas with focus on international variations in city structure and urban problems.
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GEOG 570 - Environmental Conservation Practice
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 370 .
Management of environmental and natural resources. Effective programs and the institutional frameworks in which they occur.
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GEOG 572 - Land Use Analysis
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 370 .
Theoretical and practical approaches to land use management. Current and relevant techniques and policies at local, state and federal levels, aimed toward providing healthy and environmentally sound communities that provide positive benefits to society and the economy. Field trips may be arranged.
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GEOG 573 - Population and the Environment
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 102 .
Population distribution, growth, and characteristics as they relate to environmental degradation, both as causes and consequences. Roles of women, sustainable development, carrying capacity, optimum population, and policy initiatives in relationships between population and environment.
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GEOG 574 - Water Resources
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 370 and GEOG 375 .
Occurrence and utilization of water resources and the problems of water resource development. Field trips may be arranged.
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GEOG 575 - Geography of Recreational Land Use
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 or GEOG 102 .
Importance of society, environment, and location in the use, management, and quality of recreation areas. Direct observation of practices and policies with field trips to local (San Diego) areas and an optional four-day trip to Yosemite National Park.
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GEOG 576 - Advanced Watershed Analysis
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 , GEOG 103 , or GEOG 104 . Recommended: GEOG 375 and GEOG 484 .
Theory and techniques in watershed analysis. Use of GIS and statistical programming for analyses of geomorphology, hydrology, and water quality data.
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GEOG 580 - Data Management for Geographic Information Systems
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 381 or GEOG 484 ; GEOG 383 , CS 107 or CS 108 ; or graduate standing.
PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and open source databases to store, manage, and query geospatial data.
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GEOG 581 - Cartographic Design
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 381 .
Computer-assisted map production techniques with emphasis on map design and color use.
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GEOG 582 - GIS Programming with Python
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 383 , GEOG 484 , or graduate standing. Recommended: CS 107 or CS 108 .
Automating geocoding processes by Python scripting, managing vector and raster data, and preprocessing geospatial data.
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GEOG 583 - Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 381 or GEOG 484 .
Current development of Internet mapping and cartographic skills for web-based maps (multimedia, animation, and interactive design). Fundamental theories of distributed GIS to support Internet mapping with focus on distributed component technologies, Internet map servers, and web services.
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GEOG 584 - Geographic Information Systems Applications
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 484 .
Spatial analysis methods in GIS, to include terrain, raster, and network analysis. Feature distributions and patterns. GIS data processing techniques to include spatial interpolation, geocoding, and dynamic segmentation. Designing and executing analytical procedures.
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GEOG 585 - Quantitative Methods in Geographic Research
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 385 .
Application of statistical techniques to geographic research to include simple regression and correlation, multiple regression, geographically weighted regression, classification, factor analysis, and computer applications.
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GEOG 586 - Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 102 .
Application of qualitative techniques to geographic research including reflexive survey design and in-depth interviews, non-obtrusive methods, landscape interpretation, textual methods and discourse analysis, feminist criticism, and humanistic and historical materialist perspectives on measurement.
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GEOG 589 - GIS-Based Decision Support Methods
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 484 .
Integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with discrete and continuous multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methods. Applications of MCDM in land use planning, site selection, and resource management spatial decision problems.
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GEOG 590 - Community-Based Geographic Research
Units: 3
One lecture and four hours of activity or fieldwork.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Recommended: STAT 119 .
Local social and/or environmental issues. Research design, data collection and analysis, collaboration with community-based organizations, reflection on research and social responsibility, communication of findings. Maximum Credits: six units.
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GEOG 591 - Remote Sensing of Environment
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 , ENV S 100 [or SUSTN 100 ]. Recommended: PHYS 180A -PHYS 180B . Undergraduate students must be concurrently registered in Geography 591 and GEOG 591L . Graduate students may take GEOG 591L concurrently or after Geography 591.
Acquiring and interpreting remotely sensed data of environment. Electromagnetic radiation processes, aerial and satellite imaging systems and imagery. Geographic analysis of selected human, terrestrial, and marine processes and resources. Formerly Numbered Geography 587.
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GEOG 591L - Remote Sensing of Environment Laboratory
Units: 1
Three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101 , ENV S 100 [or SUSTN 100 ]. Recommended: PHYS 180A -PHYS 180B . Undergraduate students must be concurrently registered in GEOG 591 and 591L. Graduate students may take Geography 591L concurrently or after GEOG 591 .
Practical exercises, introductory processing, visual interpretation and mapping of remotely sensed imagery. Formerly Numbered Geography 587.
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GEOG 592 - Intermediate Remote Sensing of Environment
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 385 , GEOG 591 , GEOG 591L . Undergraduate students must be concurrently registered in Geography 592 and GEOG 592L . Graduate students may take GEOG 592L concurrently or after Geography 592.
Digital image processing. Thermal infrared and microwave imaging systems and image interpretation principles. Geographic analysis of selected human, terrestrial, oceanographic, and atmospheric processes and resources. Formerly Numbered Geography 588.
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GEOG 592L - Intermediate Remote Sensing of Environment Laboratory
Units: 1
Three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 385 , GEOG 591 , GEOG 591L . Undergraduate students must be concurrently registered in GEOG 592 and 592L. Graduate students may take Geography 592L concurrently or after GEOG 592 .
Digital image processing, visual interpretation, mapping of thermal infrared, and microwave imagery. Formerly Numbered Geography 588.
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GEOG 593 - GIS for Business Location Decisions
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 484 or graduate standing. Recommended: GEOG 584 , GEOG 589 .
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and location analysis methods to include modeling and spatial analysis. Applications of GIS and location analysis in business site selection, market segmentation, retail marketing, and service area analysis.
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GEOG 594 - Big Data Science and Analytics Platforms
Units: 3
Same As: BDA 594 .
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 104 , CS 100 or CS 107 ; and GEOG 385 , SOC 201 , STAT 250 , or graduate standing.
Big data science to include analysis, data collection, filtering, GIS, machine learning, processing, text analysis, and visualization. Computational platforms, skills, and tools for conducting big data analytics with real world case studies and examples.
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GEOG 595 - Geographic Internship
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Six upper division units in geography and consent of instructor.
Students will be assigned to various government agencies and industry and will work under the joint supervision of agency heads and the course instructor.
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GEOG 596 - Advanced Topics in Geography
Units: 1-3
Prerequisite(s): Six upper division units in geography.
Advanced special topics in geography. May be repeated with new content.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor’s degree. Credit for 596 and 696 applicable to a master’s degree with approval of the graduate adviser.
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GEOG 670 - Environmental Conservation Theory
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
Theories and principles involved in natural and environmental resources management.
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GEOG 683 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 484 and CS 108 .
Scripting techniques with Python for automating geoprocessing tasks and developing GIS tools. Use of Bayes’ Theorem in spatial modeling.
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GEOG 683L - Advanced Geographic Information Systems Laboratory
Units: 1-2
Three to six hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent registration in GEOG 683 .
Geoprocessing Python scripting techniques with applications to spatial modeling and analysis.
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GEOG 688 - Advanced Remote Sensing
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
Sensor systems, image interpretation and geographic applications in thermal infrared and microwave remote sensing. Principles of digital image processing.
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GEOG 688L - Advanced Remote Sensing Laboratory
Units: 1-2
Two or four hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent registration in GEOG 688 .
Processing and analysis of remotely sensed data. Laboratory training in sensor systems and digital image-processing methods including thermal infrared and microwave data analysis.
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GEOG 696 - Advanced Special Topics in Geography
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Advanced special topics in geography. May be repeated with new content.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Credit for 596 and 696 applicable to a master’s degree with approval of the graduate adviser.
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GEOG 700 - Seminar in Geographic Research Design
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
Definition of spatial problems, hypothesis formulation and testing, selection of appropriate methodology. Development of research proposals, conduct of research, written and oral presentations.
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GEOG 701 - Seminar in Development of Geographic Thought
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
Evolution of concepts concerning the nature, scope, theories, and methodologies of geography.
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