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2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Certificate in Geography for Security

The Certificate in Geography for Security (CGS) focuses on concepts and skills in high demand across a range of human security fields (such as environmental, intelligence, and food security) and promotes global civic engagement and leadership. It is offered as an undergraduate certificate. See www.csulb.edu/geography

This certificate is state supported.

Admission and Degree Requirements

The Certificate in Geography for Security (CGS) is available to any CSULB student. A minimum of 21 units of approved coursework is required.

Prerequisites

All CSULB upper-division students are eligible for this Certificate.

The Certificate requirements are that students: (1) have fulfilled GE Foundation requirements (or per advisor consent); (2) complete GEOG 200 or STAT 108 or SOC 170 or HDEV 190 or PSY 110 or the equivalent; (3) 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 course, and; (4) students who have elected a language specialization in Chinese or Japanese should have reached 202 level of demonstrated competency in AAAS or equivalent.

Coursework for the Certificate:

Basic Core (9-10 units):

Take the following courses:

GEOG 470 - Political Geography (3 units)
PHIL 352 - Philosophy of Law (3 units)

Take one of the following courses:

GEOG 280 - Introduction to Geospatial Techniques (3 units)
GEOG 371 - Geospatial Science for Health (3 units)
GEOG 471 - Geographic Information Science (GISci) for Justice (3 units)
GEOG 481 - Geographic Information Science for Natural Sciences (4 units)

Regional Emphasis (6 units):

Take two courses from the following:

A/ST 307 - Modern Asia (3 units)
GEOG 304 - California (3 units)
GEOG 306 - United States and Canada (3 units)
GEOG 309 - The Middle East and North Africa (3 units)
GEOG 313 - Southeast Asia (3 units)
GEOG 314 - South Asia (3 units)
GEOG 315 - East Asia (3 units)
GEOG 316 - Europe (3 units)
GEOG 318 - Russia and Its Neighbors (3 units)
GEOG 321 - Geography of Latin America (3 units)
HIST 340 - Europe Since 1945 (3 units)
HIST 343 - Modern Eastern Europe (3 units)
HIST 341B - Modern Russia (3 units)
HIST 382B - Modern China (3 units)
HIST 383B - Modern Japan (3 units)
HIST 388 - Contemporary China (3 units)
HIST 392 - Contemporary Africa, 1940-Present (3 units)
HIST 393 - Jews of the Modern Middle East (3 units)
HIST 407 - Japan and the United States in the 20th Century (3 units)
HIST 412 - Migration and Ethnicity in Modern China (3 units)
HIST 418 - Central Asia and Afghanistan, Twentieth Century (3 units)
HIST 432 - Change and Continuity in the Modern Middle East (3 units)
HIST 437 - History of Germany 1871 to Present (3 units)
HIST 463 - Power and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean (3 units)
HIST 464 - Latin American Environmental History (3 units)
HIST 491 - Modern and Contemporary Africa (3 units)
I/ST 476 - Power and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean (3 units)
JAPN 452 - Japan: Its Land, People and Culture (3 units)
PHIL 306 - Philosophies of China and Japan (3 units)
POSC 362 - Society and National Politics of China (3 units)
POSC 358 - Contemporary Latin American Politics (3 units)
POSC 481 - U.S. - Latin American Relations (3 units)
POSC 367 - Governments and Politics of the Middle East (3 units)
RGR 314 - Introduction to Contemporary Europe (3 units)

Geospatial and/or Language Options (6-8 units):

Choose one of the below options:

Option 1 Geospatial techniques

Take two courses from the following: (8 units):

GEOG 473 - Introduction to Earth Observation (4 units)
GEOG 475 - Geographical Applications in Remote Sensing (4 units)
GEOG 482 - Advanced Digital Cartography & GIS (4 units)
GEOG 484 - Enterprise GIS Development (4 units)
GEOG 485 - Principles of Geographic Information Science (4 units)
GEOG 487A - Environmental GIS (4 units)
GEOG 487B - Urban GIS (4 units)
GEOG 488 - Geographic Information Science (GIS) Programming (4 units)

Option 2 Foreign languages

Take two courses from the following (6 units):

SPAN 300 - Advanced Grammar and Composition (6 units)
SPAN 314 - Oral Communication (3 units)
SPAN 335A - Business Spanish (3 units)
Or
SPAN 335B - Business Spanish (3 units)
FREN 312A - Advanced French I (3 units)
FREN 312B - Advanced French II (3 units)
FREN 314 - Advanced Conversation (3 units)
FREN 320 - French for the Professions (3 units)
GERM 301 - Fiction and Fact: Short Texts (3 units)
GERM 302 - Language of the German Media (3 units)
Or
GERM 305 - Advanced German Conversation (3 units)
ITAL 312A - Advanced Italian I (3 units)
ITAL 312B - Advanced Italian II (3 units)
Or
ITAL 314 - Advanced Conversation (3 units)
CHIN 301 - Advanced Chinese (3 units)
CHIN 302 - Advanced Chinese (3 units)
Or
CHIN 311 - Advanced Spoken Chinese (3 units)
JAPN 301 - Advanced Japanese (3 units)
JAPN 302 - Advanced Japanese (3 units)
JAPN 311 - Advanced Spoken Japanese (3 units)
JAPN 312 - Advanced Spoken Japanese (3 units)

Option 3 Geospatial techniques and one in languages

Take one course in Geospatial techniques and one in languages (7 units).

Geospatial Techniques courses:

Take one from the following:

GEOG 473 - Introduction to Earth Observation (4 units)
GEOG 475 - Geographical Applications in Remote Sensing (4 units)
GEOG 482 - Advanced Digital Cartography & GIS (4 units)
GEOG 485 - Principles of Geographic Information Science (4 units)
GEOG 487A - Environmental GIS (4 units)
GEOG 487B - Urban GIS (4 units)
GEOG 488 - Geographic Information Science (GIS) Programming (4 units)

Language Courses:

Take one from the following:

SPAN 300 - Advanced Grammar and Composition (6 units)
SPAN 314 - Oral Communication (3 units)
SPAN 335A - Business Spanish (3 units)
Or
SPAN 335B - Business Spanish (3 units)
FREN 312A - Advanced French I (3 units)
FREN 312B - Advanced French II (3 units)
FREN 314 - Advanced Conversation (3 units)
FREN 320 - French for the Professions (3 units)
GERM 301 - Fiction and Fact: Short Texts (3 units)
GERM 302 - Language of the German Media (3 units)
Or
GERM 305 - Advanced German Conversation (3 units)
ITAL 312A - Advanced Italian I (3 units)
Or
ITAL 314 - Advanced Conversation (3 units)
CHIN 301 - Advanced Chinese (3 units)
CHIN 302 - Advanced Chinese (3 units)
Or
CHIN 311 - Advanced Spoken Chinese (3 units)
JAPN 301 - Advanced Japanese (3 units)
JAPN 302 - Advanced Japanese (3 units)
JAPN 311 - Advanced Spoken Japanese (3 units)
Or
JAPN 312 - Advanced Spoken Japanese (3 units)