Intermediate: 400-level
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Conceptual and simulation models of key case studies for developing system thinking, including system stability, threshold dynamics in regime shifts, resilience, and adaptive environmental management.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for or in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Treatment of contemporary issues in geographical research focusing on human-environmental relations and interactions. Instructor(s) and topics will be announced each term the course is given.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Fall 2023]GEOG 408. Geography of Development.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Fall 2020]GEOG 409. Geographies of Developing Asia.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Advanced techniques in geospatial analysis. Geospatial methods and using geospatial information systems. Topics: geodatabases, interpolation techniques, spatial
classification methods, data mining and machine learning, including working with a number of leading commercial software including ESRI鈥檚 ArcGIS Desktop/Pro.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Classic and contemporary perspectives in urban geography. Range of topics including effects of capitalism, gender, suburbanism, segregation and inequality, property, urban landscapes, and urban space. Emphasizes theoretical issues but includes empirical and/or case studies.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Exploration of some ways race and racism manifest spatially, including how race and racism shape vast built environments in addition to intimate experiences of
space. Historical, political, and cultural insight for the ongoing racial politics of place.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.Outline [Fall 2024]GEOG 420. Memory, Place, and Power.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
This interdisciplinary class explores the relationships among memory, place, and political power. The course begins with an introduction to key classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary texts on memory and place-making. It then uses
this foundation to examine the symbolic transformation of public space, in particular the construction, alteration, and destruction of monuments, memorials, and museums in postcommunist states and in North America. This approach emphasizes the social quality of memory, exploring the ways in which political
interests, economic resources, and social practices can shape something as ostensibly personal and individual as memory.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Foundational concepts, methods and techniques in Geographic Information Science (GIS) to manage, process, interpret, understand, and analyze digital geospatial land surface data for a variety of Earth system applications, with a special focus on global hydrology. Emphasis will be placed on recognizing issues of resolution, scale, data accuracy and uncertainties.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A critical examination of the increasing global consumption of sand resources and the human-causedchanges and impact on sediment dynamics, landscape evolution, ecological processes in freshwater ecosystemand conservation biology.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Through engaging in real-world sustainability challenges through hands-on research, learn to critically analyze problems that arise at the interface of multiple disciplines including the scientific-technological, socio-economic, political-institutional, ethical, and human behavioural. Develop an understanding of the leverages and road blocks in achieving a sustainability transition.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An examination of the structure, function and utility of wetlands. Topics include the fluxes of energy and water, wetland biogeochemistry, plant ecology in freshwater and coastal wetlands and wetlands use, conservation and restoration. Field trip(s) are envisaged to illustrate issues covered in class.
To gain permission of instructor to take this course please email Prof Chmura with your student number and a copy (advising is fine) of your transcript.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
The complex Arctic system and its interrelated elements as a coupled system. Topics include: the physical, biological, and social processes that shape the Arctic, including the Arctic atmosphere and ocean, sea ice, permafrost, and terrestrial ecosystems. Unique challenges and opportunities in this fragile and rapidly changing environment, including current research in Arctic science.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline听 Student/SupervisorAgreementGEOG 489. Independent Research in Geography.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for or or in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Independent research project under the guidance of a staff member specializing in the field of interest.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Outline听 Student/SupervisorAgreementGEOG 490. Independent Readings in Geography.
Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for or in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Independent readings or project (non-research) under the guidance of a staff member specializing in the field of interest.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Supervised reading, research and preparation of an undergraduate thesis under the direction of a member of staff.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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Credits: 1.5Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Supervised reading, research and preparation of an undergraduate thesis under the direction of a member of staff.
Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more.GEOG 492D2. Joint Honours Research.
Credits: 1.5Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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