Geography

Department Chair: Suzanne Perlitsh Wechsler

Department Office: LA1-123
Telephone: (562) 985‑4977 / (562) 985-8432
Website: http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/geography/

Faculty: Hyowon Ban, Deshonay Dozier, Lily House-Peters, Gary Hytrek, Christine L. Jocoy, Paul Laris, Linna Li, Mystyn Mills, Christine M. Rodrigue, Dmitrii Sidorov, Deborah Thien, Suzanne P. Wechsler

Advisors:

Undergraduate: Linna Li
Graduate: Gary Hytrek (MA), Suzanne Perlitsh Wechsler (MSGISci) 

Administrative Support Coordinator: Jenny Sok Wisman, Leanne Johnson

College: College of Liberal Arts  

Courses: GEOG  

Career Possibilities

Geographer • Geospatial Scientist • Urban Planner • Cartographer • Geovisualization • Environmental Planner • GIS Web Developer • Emergency Management Specialist • Natural Resources Manager • Environmental Monitor • GIS analyst • Hazards Analyst • Water Quality Scientist • Transportation Planner • Travel Counselor/Agent • Real Estate Appraiser • Environmental Analyst • Intelligence Analyst • Marketing Analyst • Community Development Specialist • Demographer • Recreation Resource Planner • Climatologist • Restoration Ecologist • Environmental Impact Report Writer • Teacher • Sustainability Specialist • Climate Change Adaptation Planner • Wilderness Conservation • UAV/Drone Specialist • Park Ranger

Introduction

Geography focuses on the spatial organization of human and physical landscapes, the interactions between human society and the physical environment, as well as on the meanings that people bring to their place in the world.

The Department offers the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Arts degrees, Geography Minor, GIS Minor and three certificates. For further information, visit the Geography Department website. For the Master of Arts degree in Geography, candidates are responsible for the general requirements stated in this catalog as well as the specific departmental requirements contained in the Geography Master of Arts Handbook.

Programs

• Geographic Information Science, M.S.
• Geography, M.A.

• Geography, B.A.

• Geographic Information Science Minor
• Geography Minor

• Certificate in Geography for Security
• Geographic Information Science Certificate
• Urban Studies Certificate

Courses

• GISC 601 - GIS Professionalism
• GISC 602 - Applied GIS
• GISC 603 - Cartographic Visualization
• GISC 604 - Enterprise GIS Development
• GISC 605 - Programming for Geospatial Professionals
• GISC 606 - Applied Remote Sensing
• GISC 607 - Project Orientation and Support
• GISC 608 - Applied Project

• GEOG 100 - World Regional Geography
• GEOG 101 - The Global Environment
• GEOG 120 - Race, Place and Culture
• GEOG 130 - Geography of Weather and Climate
• GEOG 140 - Introduction to Physical Geography
• GEOG 175 - My Neighborhood, Our City
• GEOG 200 - Introduction to Research Methods for Geographers
• GEOG 280 - Introduction to Geospatial Techniques
• GEOG 300 - Research Design in Geography
• GEOG 301 - The Urban Scene
• GEOG 304 - California
• GEOG 306 - United States and Canada
• GEOG 309 - The Middle East and North Africa
• GEOG 313 - Southeast Asia
• GEOG 314 - South Asia
• GEOG 315 - East Asia
• GEOG 316 - Europe
• GEOG 318 - Russia and Its Neighbors
• GEOG 319 - International Development
• GEOG 321 - Geography of Latin America
• GEOG 325 - Geography of Climate Change
• GEOG 330 - California Ecosystems
• GEOG 340 - Environmental Geography
• GEOG 350 - Environmental Justice
• GEOG 352 - Geography of Travel and Tourism
• GEOG 354 - The Anthropocene: Earth in the Era of Humans
• GEOG 355 - International Environmental Issues
• GEOG 357 - Sacred Geographies
• GEOG 359 - Coastal and Marine Science and Policy
• GEOG 360 - Human Geography
• GEOG 371 - Geospatial Science for Health
• GEOG 380 - Introduction to Digital Cartography & Analysis
• GEOG 392 - Climate Action and Sustainability at CSULB
• GEOG 400 - Multivariate Geographical Analysis
• GEOG 402 - Qualitative Research Methods
• GEOG 440 - Land and Water Resources
• GEOG 441 - The Geography of Mars
• GEOG 442 - Biogeography
• GEOG 443 - Watersheds: Processes and Management
• GEOG 444 - Climatology
• GEOG 445 - Paleoclimatology
• GEOG 446 - Land Use Planning
• GEOG 447 - Landscape Restoration
• GEOG 448 - Environmental Assessment
• GEOG 450 - Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice
• GEOG 452 - Geography of Globalization
• GEOG 455 - People as Agents of Environmental Change
• GEOG 458 - Hazards and Risk Management
• GEOG 460 - Population Geography
• GEOG 462 - Gender, Place and Culture
• GEOG 464 - Urban Geography: Sustainable Cities
• GEOG 465 - Social Geography
• GEOG 467 - Urban Geography: Metropolitan Problems and Solutions
• GEOG 468 - World Cities/Cities of the World
• GEOG 469 - Cities and Social Justice
• GEOG 470 - Political Geography
• GEOG 471 - Geographic Information Science (GISci) for Justice
• GEOG 473 - Introduction to Earth Observation
• GEOG 475 - Geographical Applications in Remote Sensing
• GEOG 481 - Geographic Information Science for Natural Sciences
• GEOG 482 - Advanced Digital Cartography & GIS
• GEOG 484 - Enterprise GIS Development
• GEOG 485 - Principles of Geographic Information Science
• GEOG 486 - Field Methods in Landscape Analysis
• GEOG 487A - Environmental GIS
• GEOG 487B - Urban GIS
• GEOG 488 - Geographic Information Science (GIS) Programming
• GEOG 492 - Applied Internship
• GEOG 494 - Selected Topics in Geography
• GEOG 495 - Field Training in Geographic Techniques
• GEOG 497 - Directed Studies
• GEOG 500 - Multivariate Geographical Analysis
• GEOG 502 - Qualitative Research Methods
• GEOG 540 - Land and Water Resources
• GEOG 541 - The Geography of Mars
• GEOG 543 - Watersheds: Processes and Management
• GEOG 548 - Environmental Assessment
• GEOG 558 - Hazards and Risk Management
• GEOG 562 - Gender, Place and Culture
• GEOG 564 - Urban Geography: Sustainable Cities
• GEOG 565 - Social Geography
• GEOG 567 - Urban Geography: Metropolitan Problems and Solutions
• GEOG 569 - Cities and Social Justice
• GEOG 575 - Geographical Applications in Remote Sensing
• GEOG 582 - Advanced Digital Cartography and GIS
• GEOG 584 - Enterprise GIS Development
• GEOG 585 - Principles of Geographic Information Science
• GEOG 586 - Field Methods in Landscape Analysis
• GEOG 587A - Environmental GIS
• GEOG 587B - Urban GIS
• GEOG 588 - Geographic Information Science (GIS) Programming
• GEOG 596 - Geographic Thought and Literature
• GEOG 600 - Seminar in Geography