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GEOG 445 - Paleoclimatology
(4 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 330 or GEOL 240 or GEOL 300 .
Methods and theories used in reconstructing and dating climates of the past 2 million years, using such proxies as sediment sequences, packrat middens, ice cores, tree rings, corals, and documentary data. Causes of environmental change and human interactions are analyzed.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hours, lab activities 2 hours) Cross-listed with GEOL 445 . Same course as GEOL 445 . Not open for credit to students with credit in GEOL 445
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GEOG 446 - Land Use Planning
(3 units)
Examines land use planning, issues and responses concerning land use; coastal zones; environmental resource management; urban growth; design and aesthetics; planning parameters for residences, parks, conservation areas, shopping centers, and industrial areas; urban and regional revitalization, and transportation.
Not open for credit to students with credit in U/ST 446
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GEOG 447 - Landscape Restoration
(3 units)
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): GEOG 330 /ES P 330 .
Explores philosophical, political, and ecological issues associated with restoring degraded landscapes. Analysis of theoretical works, scientific research, planning documents and case studies. Examines potential for restoring natural landscapes.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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GEOG 448 - Environmental Assessment
(3 units)
Prerequisite: ES P 200 or GEOG 340 or consent of instructor.
Introduction to the policy framework and techniques for assessing impacts on various aspects of the biological and physical environment. The course is a survey of multiple topics involving various types of environmental assessment, including data collection, processing and evaluation.
Letter grade only (A-F). (3 hours lecture, activity) GEOG 548
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GEOG 450 - Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice
(3 units)
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
An interdisciplinary, project-based examination of environmental sustainability challenges and social justice issues. Using various methodological and theoretical approaches, course topics will include climate justice, social movements, resilience, public health, air quality, transportation, food/water security, sea level rise, and industrial contamination.
Letter grade only (A-F). Same course as ES P 450 .
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GEOG 452 - Geography of the Global Economy
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 360 or consent of instructor.
Examines globalization processes that create integration of world’s economic, political, and cultural systems, but operate unevenly across space and time. Focuses on impact on people and places around the world.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture, problems)
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GEOG 455 - People As Agents of Environmental Change
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 340 or consent of instructor.
Examines human impact on biophysical environment from long-term and global perspective. Explores regional and global implications of these changes on people and environments. Examines different theories for explaining major human forces that drive environmental change.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hours)
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GEOG 458 - Hazards and Risk Management
(3 units)
Prerequisite: ES P 200 or GEOG 340 or consent of instructor.
Broad overview of hazards and disasters, whether natural or technological, emphasizing the physical and social dynamics that interact to produce hazard, the spatial and temporal distributions of various hazards, and policy options for disaster preparation, loss reduction, and community resilience.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 558
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GEOG 460 - Population Geography
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 360 or consent of instructor.
Introduction to geographic study of population. Includes growth and distribution of world population; results of changing births, deaths, and migration; variations in population composition; related problems such as food supplies and environmental deterioration.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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GEOG 462 - Gender, Place and Culture
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 360 or WGSS 300 or consent of instructor
A human geography approach to examining intersections of gender, place and culture. Topics include: body spaces; geographies of sexualities; emotion, care and health; migration; environmental and social justice; feminist post-structural theories and philosophies; and feminist methodological approaches to geographic research.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 562 . Same course as WGSS 462 . Not open for credit to students with credit in WGSS 462
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GEOG 464 - Urban Geography: Sustainable Cities
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 100 , GEOG 120 , or GEOG 160 or GEOG 301 or consent of instructor; GEOG 360 recommended.
Corequisite: GEOG 301
Examines the function and character of cities as locations for sustainable development related to health, transportation, and neighborhood design. Course focuses on trends in public policy, planning, and community-based activism that seek to balance economic, social, and environmental well-being.
Letter grade only (A-F). Double Numbered with: GEOG 564
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GEOG 465 - Social Geography
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 360 or consent of instructor.
The geographies of society, including various methodological and theoretical approaches to social geography. Topics may include socio-spatial inequality, crime, housing, religious systems, medical and health geography, feminist geography, the geography of sexuality, the geography of race, or poststructuralist geography.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 565
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GEOG 467 - Urban Geography: Metropolitan Problems and Solutions
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 360 or consent of instructor.
Examines geographic components of metropolitan problems with a focus on theoretical and practically applied urban planning solutions to transportation, housing, residential segregation, economic development, and community health issues.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture, problems 3 hrs) GEOG 567
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GEOG 468 - World Cities/Cities of the World
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 360 or consent of instructor.
Comparative examination of major world cities within the context of their regional and national urban systems. Compares and contrasts cities of developed and developing worlds. Explores divergent urbanization patterns and world city development in major cultural realms.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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GEOG 469 - Communities, Democracy & Spatial Justice
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GEOG 301 or GEOG 360
Course examines theories and strategies of empowerment and sustainable community development. Topics include community-based research, civic capacities and public policy, relationship-based versus elite/bureaucratic problem solving, social capital, spatial justice and rights to the city, and community development.
Letter Grade only (A-F) GEOG 569
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GEOG 470 - Political Geography
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 360 or consent of instructor.
Examines the interface between people, power and territory. We consider how societies are organized at local, national and international scales, how ideologies (including nationalism) have political implications, and how the state is changing through the agency of new state and non-state actors. We explore the consequences of these new geographies of power.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture, problems)
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GEOG 471 - Geographic Information Science (GIS) For Health
(3 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 200 or HDEV 190 or PSY 110 or SOC 170 or STAT 118 or equivalent.
An Introduction to the fundamentals of Geographic Information Science and systems (GIS) including concepts and skills in spatial reasoning and spatial thinking. Explores GIS in spatial query, problem analysis and decision support using health-related applications. Lecture/discussion and Laboratory
Letter grade only (A-F). (2 hours seminar, 2 hours computer laboratory) Same course as HCA 471 . Not open for credit to students with credit in HCA 471 or GEOG 485 /GEOG 585 .
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GEOG 473 - Remote Sensing
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOG 200 or equivalent and GEOG 280 or GEOG 471 or GEOG 481 ; or consent of instructor.
Processing and interpretation of aerial photographs and digital satellite imagery. Topics include the electromagnetic spectrum, energy-matter interactions, sensor characteristics, and the acquisition, processing and interpretation of imagery for applications including the analysis of vegetation dynamics, surface hydrology and urban environments.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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GEOG 475 - Geographical Applications in Remote Sensing
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOG 473 or consent of instructor
Focuses on remote sensing applications. Students will be introduced to sophisticated imagery and analysis techniques, as applied to weather and fire modeling, arid lands environmental problems, or the urban environment.
Letter grade only (A-F). Double Numbered with: GEOG 575
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GEOG 481 - Geographic Information Science for Natural Sciences
(4 units)
Prerequisites: Junior/Senior/Graduate standing; GEOG 140 or BIOL 153 or GEOL 102 .
Introduces fundamentals of geographic information science and systems (GIS) to non-geography students, including concepts and skills in spatial reasoning and spatial thinking. Explores GIS in spatial query, problem analysis and decision support, using biologic, geologic, and ecologic applications.
Letter grade only (A-F). Not open for credit to students with credit in GEOG 280 or GEOG 485 /GEOG 585 .
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GEOG 482 - Advanced Digital Cartography & GIS
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOG 200 or equivalent and GEOG 380 or consent of instructor.
Advanced theories and techniques for the creation of various types of numerical thematic maps using digital cartography, GIS, and empirical data.
Grading: Letter grade only (A-F) Double Numbered with: GEOG 582
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GEOG 484 - Enterprise GIS Development
(4 units)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 280 or GEOG 471 or GEOG 481 or consent of instructor.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the enterprise geographic information system development process. Focuses specifically on geospatial data acquisition, management, and dissemination methods which utilize geodatabase functionality and custom developed mapping applications.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 584
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GEOG 485 - Principles of Geographic Information Science
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOG 200 or equivalent AND GEOG 280 or GEOG 471 or GEOG 481 ; or consent of instructor.
Fundamental concepts and techniques of geographic information systems and science are introduced. Emphasizes spatial analyses to address spatial questions.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 585
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GEOG 486 - Field Methods in Landscape Analysis
(4 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 340 or equivalent and consent of instructor. Students must have scored 11 or higher on the GWAR Placement Examination or successfully completed the necessary portfolio course that is a prerequisite for a GWAR Writing Intensive Capstone.
Introduction to field techniques, including formulation of field plans, recording direct observation, field mapping, sampling techniques, interviewing, and organizing and evaluating data for presentation.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-discussion 1 hour, supervised field work 6 hours)
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GEOG 487A - Applications of Geographic Information Science (GIS): Environment and Natural Resources
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOG 485 or GEOG 585 or consent of instructor.
Use of Geographic Information Systems and science for spatial query, problem analysis, spatial modeling and decision support in natural resource assessment. Students with background in GIS are introduced to environmental applications. Emphasizes use of raster GIS.
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GEOG 488 - Geographic Information Science (GIS) Programming
(4 units)
Prerequisite: GEOG 485 or GEOG 585 or consent of instructor
Corequisite: GEOG 485 or GEOG 585 or consent of instructor
Introduction to programming techniques for Geographic Information Sciences and applications for geography and related disciplines.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 3 hours; Laboratory 2 hours). GEOG 588
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GEOG 492 - Applied Internship
(3 units)
Prerequisites: Upper division or graduate standing. Open to Geography and Environmental Science and Policy majors only.
Practical experience in an appropriate business, government or community-based organization to enhance professional development.
Undergraduates may elect Credit/No Credit or letter grading; letter grading only is required for graduate students. Same course as ES P 495 . (6 hours activity/laboratory). May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units; a second semester experience shall differ substantially from first semester experience. Student will work under faculty supervision.
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GEOG 494 - Selected Topics in Geography
(1-3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Application of geographical concepts and methodology to selected contemporary problems.
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with consent of department chair. Topics announced in the Schedule of Classes. May not be credited toward the major in geography without written department consent in advance of enrollment.
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GEOG 495 - Field Training in Geographic Techniques
(1-6 units)
Prerequisites: GEOG 140 and consent of instructor
In this advanced applied geography course students will enhance their knowledge of various geographic and/or geospatial techniques and apply these skills to address geographic and spatial questions through a combination of intense hands-on field work and data analyses. Topics vary by instructor.
Letter grade only (A-F). (3 - 18 hours Activity)
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GEOG 497 - Directed Studies
(1-3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Individually directed studies of special problems in geography.
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with consent of department chairperson. May not be credited toward the major in geography without written department consent in advance of enrollment.
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GEOG 500 - Multivariate Geographical Analysis
(4 units)
Examination of advanced multivariate statistical techniques employed by geographers in analysis of spatial phenomena. Emphasis on applications in geographical research, using spreadsheet and statistical software.
Letter grade only (A-F). (3 hours seminar, 2 hours laboratory) Double Numbered with: GEOG 400
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GEOG 502 - Qualitative Geographic Analysis
(4 units)
Examines qualitative geographic methodologies and methods through the theoretical frameworks that geographers employ in their research. Introduces survey, interview, and focus group techniques, textual analysis, participant observation, and ethnography. Includes a hands-on research experience.
Letter grade only (A-F). (4 hours discussion).
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GEOG 540 - Land and Water Resources
(3 units)
Examines interrelationships between land and water as components of the human environment. Focus is on management, use and human impacts, with an emphasis on water resources.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-discussion) GEOG 440
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GEOG 541 - The Geography of Mars
(3 units)
Introduction to the geography of Mars, providing a physical regionalization of the Martian surface and climate and an understanding of underlying tectonic, geomorphic, and meteorological processes. The course reviews remote sensing fundamentals and data sources for geographical analysis of Mars.
Letter grade only (A-F). (2 hours seminar, 2 hours activity) GEOG 441
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GEOG 543 - Watersheds: Processes and Management
(4 units)
Basic principles of watershed hydrology, including hydrologic processes, runoff behavior, precipitation patterns and watershed models. Evaluation of water quality elements such as nonpoint source pollution. Laboratory and field exercises will include hydrologic data collection, processing and evaluation.
Letter grade only (A-F). (3 hours Lecture, 2 hours Laboratory)
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GEOG 548 - Environmental Assessment
(3 units)
Introduction to the policy framework and techniques for assessing impacts on various aspects of the biological and physical environment. The course is a survey of multiple topics involving various types of environmental assessment, including data collection, processing and evaluation.
Letter grade only (A-F). (3 hours lecture, activity) GEOG 448
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GEOG 558 - Hazards and Risk Management
(3 units)
Broad overview of hazards and disasters, whether natural or technological, emphasizing the physical and social dynamics that interact to produce hazard, the spatial and temporal distributions of various hazards, and policy options for disaster preparation, loss reduction, and community resilience.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 485
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GEOG 562 - Gender, Place and Culture
(3 units)
A human geography approach to examining intersections of gender, place and culture. Topics include: body spaces; geographies of sexualities; emotion, care and health; migration; environmental and social justice; feminist post-structural theories and philosophies; and feminist methodological approaches to geographic research.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 462 Not open for credit to students with credit in GEOG 462 or WGSS 462 .
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GEOG 564 - Urban Geography: Sustainable Cities
(3 units)
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
Examines the function and character of cities as locations for sustainable development related to health, transportation, and neighborhood design. Course focuses on trends in public policy, planning, and community-based activism that seek to balance economic, social, and environmental well-being.
Letter grade only (A-F). Double Numbered with: GEOG 464
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GEOG 565 - Social Geography
(3 units)
The geographies of society, including various methodological and theoretical approaches to social geography. Topics may include sociospatial inequality, crime, housing, religious systems, medical and health geography, feminist geography, the geography of sexuality, the geography of race, or poststructuralist geography.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 465
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GEOG 567 - Urban Geography: Metropolitan Problems and Solutions
(3 units)
Examines geographic components of metropolitan problems with a focus on theoretical and practically applied urban planning solutions to transportation, housing, residential segregation, economic development, and community health issues.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture, problems 3 hrs) GEOG 467
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GEOG 569 - Communities, Democracy & Spatial Justice
(3 units)
Course examines theories and strategies of empowerment and sustainable community development. Topics include community-based research, civic capacities and public policy, relationship-based versus elite/bureaucratic problem solving, social capital, spatial justice and rights to the city, and community development.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 469
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GEOG 575 - Geographical Applications in Remote Sensing
(4 units)
Focuses on remote sensing applications. Students will be introduced to sophisticated imagery and analysis techniques, as applied to weather and fire modeling, arid lands environmental problems, or the urban environment.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 3 hours; Laboratory 2 hours).
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GEOG 582 - Advanced Digital Cartography and GIS
(4 units)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Advanced theories and techniques for the creation of various types of numerical thematic maps using digital cartography, GIS, and empirical data.
Letter grade only (A-F). Double Numbered with: GEOG 482
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GEOG 584 - Enterprise GIS Development
(4 units)
Provides a comprehensive overview of the enterprise geographic information system development process. Focuses specifically on geospatial data acquisition, management, and dissemination methods which utilize geodatabase functionality and custom developed mapping applications.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 484
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GEOG 585 - Principles of Geographic Information Science
(4 units)
Fundamental concepts and techniques of geographic information systems and science are introduced. Emphasizes spatial analyses to address spatial questions.
Letter grade only (A-F). GEOG 485
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GEOG 586 - Field Methods in Landscape Analysis
(4 units)
Introduction to field techniques, including formulation of field plans, recording direct observation, field mapping, sampling techniques, interviewing, and organizing and evaluating data for presentation.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 1 hour; Field Work 6 hours).
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GEOG 587A - Applications of Geographic Information Science (GIS): Environment and Natural Resources
(4 units)
The use of Geographic Information Systems and science for spatial query, problem analysis, spatial modeling and decision support in natural resource assessment. Students who possess a background in GIS are introduced to environmental applications. Emphasizes the use of raster GIS.
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GEOG 588 - Geographic Information Science (GIS) Programming
(4 units)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 485 or GEOG 585 or consent of instructor.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 485 or GEOG 585 or consent of instructor.
Introduction to programming techniques for Geographic Information Sciences and applications for geography and related disciplines.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Seminar 3 hours; Laboratory 2 hours). GEOG 488
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GEOG 596 - Geographic Thought and Literature
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Proseminar in the history of 20th century Anglophone geographic thought with emphasis on the theoretical and subdisciplinary perspectives current in the field today.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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GEOG 600 - Seminar in Geography
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
In depth investigation of geographical issues, problems, methods and/or theories. Topics vary by instructor.
Letter grade only (A-F) May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with consent of departmental advisor.
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GEOG 640 - Seminar in Physical/Environmental Geography
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
In depth investigation of physical and/or environmental issues and problems. Topics vary by instructor.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with consent of departmental advisor.
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GEOG 650 - Seminar in Cultural Geography
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Systematic investigation of human occupancy in its varied environmental and regional settings.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with consent of department advisor.
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GEOG 666 - Seminar in Urban Geography
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Geographic concepts and techniques of research applied to specific urban areas.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with consent of department advisor.
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GEOG 680 - Seminar in Geospatial Science
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Application of geographic concepts and methodology to selected cartographic, GIS, remote sensing, and spatial analytic problems.
Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with consent of departmental advisor.
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GEOG 696 - Seminar in Geographical Research Methods
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GEOG 596 , graduate standing in geography, and consent of instructor.
Critical survey of contemporary methodologies available for framing research in geography, emphasizing the connection between research models, research questions, and the selection and limitations of particular methods, techniques, and data.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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GEOG 697 - Directed Research
(1-3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Research in geography supervised on an individual basis.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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GEOG 698 - Thesis
(1-6 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Planning, preparation and completion of thesis for the master’s degree.
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GEOL 102 - Planet Earth
(3 units)
Prerequisites: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in a course that fulfills the A.1 GE requirement and three years of high school mathematics including algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra (or MATH 10) or the equivalent.
Recommended: Concurrent enrollment in GEOL 104 or GEOL 105
Broad based introductory study of geology. Structure, composition, distribution, and modification of earth materials and elementary geologic history of the Earth.
(Lecture, demonstration 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 104 - Planet Earth Lab
(1 unit)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: A course that fulfills the A.1 GE requirement and three years of high school mathematics including algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra or the equivalent, and concurrent or prior enrollment in GEOL 102 .
Laboratory study of earth materials.
(Laboratory 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 105 - Geology Field Laboratory
(1 unit)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: A course that fulfills the A.1 GE requirement and three years of high school mathematics including algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra or the equivalent, and concurrent or prior enrollment in GEOL 102 .
Field trips to areas of geologic significance and field study of earth materials.
Course fee may be required for bus trips. (Field trips, 6 days per unit.) May be repeated to a maximum of 3 units with consent of instructor.
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GEOL 106 - Earth Science for Teachers
(4 units)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: A course that fulfills the A.1 GE requirement and three years of high school mathematics, including algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra or the equivalent.
Introduction to earth science including geology, oceanography, meteorology, solar system and astronomy. Scientific method addressed. Methods of teaching science to K-8 pupils.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture, demonstration 3 hours., laboratory 3 hrs., field trips.)
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GEOL 110 - Natural Disasters
(3 units)
Recommended: Concurrent enrollment in GEOL 110L .
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Courses that fulfill the GE A.1 and B.2 requirements.
Introductory study of Earth’s natural processes that severely impact humans. Includes study of processes causing natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and asteroid impacts.
(Lecture 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 110L - Natural Disasters Laboratory
(1 unit)
Corequisite: GEOL 110 .
Laboratory analysis of geological data and field observations of geologic features associated with natural disasters.
Course fee may be required. (Laboratory 3 hrs, field trips).
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GEOL 160 - Introduction to Oceanography
(3 units)
Origin and extent of oceans, nature of ocean floor, and cause and effect of currents, tides, and waves; and life in the ocean.
(Lecture, discussion 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 160L - Introduction to Oceanography Laboratory
(1 unit)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: A course that fulfills the A.1 GE requirement and three years of high school mathematics including algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra (MAPB 7) or the equivalent; and previous credit or concurrent registration in GEOL 160 .
Field and laboratory study of marine environment. Analysis of maps, plus shore and on-water trips for experience in use of oceanographic instruments. Analysis and interpretation of results.
Course fee may be required. (Laboratory-field 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 190 - Environmental Geology
(3 units)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: A course that fulfills the A.1 GE requirement and three years of high school mathematics including algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra or the equivalent.
Interrelationships between humans and hazards: landslides, floods, erosion, subsidence, volcanism, earthquakes, and seismic sea waves. Origin of resources and impacts of resource development: water, soils, and energy. Waste and waste disposal.
(Lecture 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 191 - Air and Water Pollution
(3 units)
Prerequisites/Corequisites: A course that fulfills the A.1 GE requirement and three years of high school mathematics including algebra, geometry, and intermediate algebra or the equivalent.
Survey course dealing with the causes and nature of pollution in the air, groundwater, fresh water lakes and streams, and the ocean. Effects of air and water pollution on the environment.
(Lecture 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 240 - Historical Geology
(4 units)
Prerequisite: GEOL 106 or both GEOL 102 , GEOL 104 .
History of earth and evolution of animals and plants.
(Lecture 3 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs., field trips.)
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GEOL 250 - Introduction to Field Petrology and Geological Field Techniques
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 102 with GEOL 104 or GEOL 105 ; or GEOL 106 ; all with grades of “C” or better.
Corequisite: GEOL 240 .
Identification and description of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks in the field. Development of fundamental geological field techniques: recording, collection, and interpretation of geological field data. Creation and interpretation of geological maps, writing technical reports, and construction of geological illustrations.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 1 hour, weekend field trips.)
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GEOL 280 - Water Resources and Society
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 102 , GEOL 104 . Four years of high school mathematics
Hydrologic, geologic, and other factors controlling groundwater and surface water occurrence, movement, quality, and contamination. Environmental effects of groundwater and surface water contamination.
(Lecture 3 hours; field trips)
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GEOL 300 - Earth Systems and Global Change
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GE Foundation requirement, upper division standing, and CHEM 100 or CHEM 111A or GEOL 102 or GEOL 106 with a grade of “C” or better.
Interaction of Earth’s systems (biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and atmosphere) and links between life, oceans, climate, and the solid earth. This approach is used to understand important issues confronting society regarding climatic and environmental change.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 303 - Coastal Systems and Human Impacts
(3 units)
Prerequisite(s): GE Foundation requirement, one or more Exploration courses from the B1 category, and upper-division standing; Recommended: GEOL 102 or GEOL 110 or GEOL 160 .
Natural processes impacting human activities in coastal zone and human influence on natural processes. Includes global warming, sea level rise, El Nino, port development, ocean outfalls and water quality, fisheries, and coastal erosion.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.) May not apply units towards elective requirements of Geology and Earth Science majors. Double Numbered with: Not open for credit to students with credit in BIOL 303.
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GEOL 322 - Crystallography and Mineralogy
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 250 ; CHEM 111A
Morphological and structural crystallography, crystal structure, chemistry, classification, origin, occurrence, and association of minerals reviewed. Analysis and identification of minerals by megascopic, qualitative, chemical, and instrumental means.
(Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs., field trip)
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GEOL 326 - Optical Mineralogy
(2 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 250 ; a passing score on the Chemistry Placement Examination or CHEM 111A ;
Corequisite/Prerequisite: GEOL 322 .
Review of morphological and optical properties of minerals including basics of the nature of light. Use of petrographic microscope in rock and mineral examination.
Letter grade only (A-F).
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GEOL 339 - Introduction to Geomorphology
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 102 with GEOL 104 or GEOL 105 ; or GEOL 106 ; or GEOG 140 .
Study of landforms and processes producing and modifying them. Emphasis on mechanics of geomorphic processes and relationships between properties of earth materials and forces applied to them by gravity, wind, ice, water, waves, and humans. Conceptual basis of geomorphology addressed. Designed for Geology, Geography, Biology, Anthropology, and Civil Engineering majors.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs., field trips).
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GEOL 341 - Paleontology and Biostratigraphy
(4 units)
Prerequisite: GEOL 240 and GE Life Science requirement B.1.a.
Morphologic, systematic, and ecologic aspects of invertebrate fossils; methods and techniques in collection, preparation, illustration, and description of fossils; uses of fossils in stratigraphic work; principles of biostratigraphy.
Course fee may be required. (Lecture 3 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs., fieldtrips)
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GEOL 350 - Spring Field Geology
(2 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 250 and GEOL 443 with grades of “C” or better.
Prerequisite/Corequisite: GEOL 433 .
Development of proficiency in geological mapping skills. Construction of stratigraphic columns and structural cross sections.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Field trips, 5 days per unit)
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GEOL 370 - Geology for Engineers
(2 units)
Prerequisite: C E 200
Earth processes and materials which influence the design, construction and operation of engineering works, construction materials. Not open for credit to geology majors.
(Lecture 2 hrs., field trips.)
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GEOL 420 - Geologic Writing
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GE Foundation completed, upper division standing, GEOL 102 , GEOL 104 , GEOL 240 , GEOL 250 ; and at least 6 units of Geology courses at 300-level or above. Students must have scored 11 or higher on the GWAR Placement Examination or completed necessary portfolio course that is a prerequisite for a GWAR Writing Intensive Capstone.
A writing-intensive capstone. Writing for a geological audience; writing scientific/geological content at an advanced level emphasized. Journal articles and abstracts reviewed. Includes handling scientific data, distinction between data and interpretation, logic and argument, clarity of style, and types of writing (abstracts, proposals, articles, etc.). Library search methods. Extensive writing, editing, and peer review. Enrollment limited.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 1 hr. and laboratory (6 hrs.)
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GEOL 426 - Igneous Metamorphic Petrography Laboratory
(1 unit)
Prerequisites: GEOL 322 and GEOL 326 ;
Prerequisite/Corequisite: GEOL 428
Laboratory microscopic analysis of igneous and metamorphic rocks, including fabric and mineral content.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Laboratory 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 428 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology and Petrography
(3 units)
Magmatic and metamorphic rock bodies and systems characteristics, including mineralogical and chemical aspects. Fabrics’ origin, evolution of igneous and metamorphic rocks, modeling of magma genesis. Microscopic, hand specimen and x-ray analysis of rocks, including fabric and mineral content.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs., field trips)
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GEOL 433 - Structural Geology
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 250 , GEOL 322 ; PHYS 151 .
Theories/principles of structural geology, orogenesis, and tectonics. Planar/linear structures in naturally deformed rocks. Description, classification, interpretation, and kinematic and dynamic analysis of faults/folds. Field measurement, analysis and mapping of structures. Deformation, strength, fracture, and rheological properties of rocks.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs., required field trips)
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GEOL 443 - Stratigraphy/Sedimentology
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 420 , GEOL 322 .
Introduction to sedimentology and stratigraphy, flow mechanics and sedimentary structures, laboratory and field methods or the description and classification of sedimentary rocks, depositional systems, sequence stratigraphy, subsurface stratigraphic ethods, sedimentation and tectonics, and preparation of sedimentologic field reports.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs., required field trips) Not open for credit to students with credit in GEOL 343.
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GEOL 444 - Engineering Geology
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 250 , GEOL 433 ; MATH 122 , MATH 123 ; PHYS 151 , PHYS 152 .
In depth study of the fundamentals of engineering geology and related hazards. Topics covered include rock and soil mechanics, active faulting, landslides, coastal and fluvial processes.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.; field trips.)
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GEOL 445 - Paleoclimatology
(4 units)
Prerequisites: ES P 200 or GEOG 340 and GEOG 200 (or equivalent) or consent of instructor. Methods and theories used in reconstructing
Methods and theories used in reconstructing and dating climates of the past 2 million years, using such proxies as sediment sequences, packrat middens, ice cores, tree rings, corals, and documentary data. Causes of environmental change and human interactions are analyzed.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hours, lab activities 2 hours) Same course as GEOG 445 . Not open for credit to students with credit in GEOG 445 .
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GEOL 450 - Summer Field Geology
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 350 , GEOL 428 , GEOL 433 , and GEOL 443 .
An integrative learning capstone. Four weeks of geological field mapping at a selected area. Preparation of geological reports of the field problems.
(Lecture as needed, daily field work)
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GEOL 460 - Introduction to Geophysics
(3 units)
Prerequisites: PHYS 151 , PHYS 152 ; and MATH 123 , all with a grade of “C” or better.
Introduction to geophysics; principles and processes; methods of investigation.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs., field trips.)
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GEOL 461 - Introduction to Geochemistry
(3 units)
Prerequisites: CHEM 111A , CHEM 111B and MATH 123 .
Abundance and migration of elements in the earth; chemical processes in evolution of earth and its crust including geochemistry of organic compounds.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 462 - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 240 , GEOL 428 ; PHYS 152 .
Structure and composition of the Earth’s interior. Origin and evolution of the Earth. Review of geophysical data, petrologic analyses, and other types of evidence for Earth structure and compositional models.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 465 - Physical and Chemical Oceanography
(3 units)
Prerequisites: CHEM 111B ; PHYS 100A or PHYS 151 , and upper division standing in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics or Engineering.
Physics and chemistry of the oceans, carbon cycle; minor and trace elements in sea water, nutrients, water masses and currents; physical concepts and interpretative theories related to ocean circulation.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)
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GEOL 466 - Oceanography Laboratory and Ocean Studies
(1 unit)
Prerequisite/Corequisite: GEOL 465 .
Analysis and interpretation of oceanographic data, acquisition of data at sea on field trip, and post-cruise analysis and presentation of results.
(Laboratory 3 hrs., sea trips.) Not open for credit to students with credit in GEOL 462 .
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GEOL 474 - Physical Hydrology
(3 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 102 , MATH 122 ; PHYS 151 . (Undergraduates enroll in GEOL 474; graduates enroll in GEOL 574 .)
Quantitative study of the terrestrial water cycle; prediction and measurement of precipitation, surface water, soil water, and groundwater.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs, lab/field trips 3 hrs) GEOL 574
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GEOL 477 - Hydrogeology
(4 units)
Prerequisites: GEOL 102 , GEOL 104 ; CHEM 111B ; PHYS 152 ; MATH 123 . (Undergraduates enroll in GEOL 477; graduates enroll in GEOL 577 .)
Groundwater flow, occurrence, development, chemistry, and contamination. Elementary groundwater flow theory. Well hydraulics.
Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.) GEOL 577
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GEOL 489 - Current Topics in Geological Sciences
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Topics of current interest in the geological sciences selected for intensive development.
Field trips may be required. (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.) May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units.
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GEOL 490 - Current Topics in Geological Science
(1-3 units)
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Topics of current interest in the geological sciences selected for intensive development.
Field trips may be required. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units.
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GEOL 496 - Investigations in Geology and Other Earth Sciences
(1-4 units)
Prerequisites: Senior standing in geology, earth science or related fields, completion of an upper division course in geology or earth science in the area of the topics chosen and approval of the topic chosen by the Geological Sciences faculty.
Supervised research in geology or the other earth sciences.
Field trips may be required.
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GEOL 500 - Introductory Graduate Seminar
(1 unit)
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Introduction to graduate policies and faculty research in Geological Sciences. Abstracts on faculty presentation required of all students.
Credit/No Credit grading only. (Seminar 1 hr.) Course cannot be counted for program requirements for the M.S degree in Geology. May be repeated to a maximum of 3 units.
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