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Program Requirements

The Minor Concentration Geography is designed to provide students in the Faculty of Arts with an overview of basic elements of human geography at the introductory and advanced level.

This Minor concentration may be expanded into the Major Concentration Geography, but not into the Major Concentration Geography (Urban Systems).

Complementary Courses (18 credits)

9 credits selected from:

• GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits)

  Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)

  Overview

  Geography : An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses.

  Terms: Fall 2014

  Instructors: Sengupta, Raja; Lehner, Bernhard (Fall)

  • Fall

  • 3 hours and lab

• GEOG 203 Environmental Systems (3 credits)

  Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)

  Overview

  Geography : An introduction to system-level interactions among climate, hydrology, soils and vegetation at the scale of drainage basins, including the study of the global geographical variability in these land-surface systems. The knowledge acquired is used to study the impact on the environment of various human activities such as deforestation and urbanisation.

  Terms: Fall 2014

  Instructors: Moore, Timothy R; Chmura, Gail L (Fall)

  • Fall

  • 3 hours

  • Restriction: Because of quantitative science content of course, not recommended for B.A. and B.Ed. students in their U0 year.

• GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits)

  Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)

  Overview

  Geography : Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.

  Terms: Winter 2015

  Instructors: Unruh, Jon; Robinson, Brian (Winter)

  • Winter

  • 3 hours

• GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits)

  Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)

  Overview

  Geography : The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.

  Terms: Fall 2014

  Instructors: Coomes, Oliver T; Breau, Sebastien (Fall)

  • Fall

  • 3 hours

• GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World (3 credits)

  Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)

  Overview

  Geography : An introduction to urban geography. Uses a spatial/geographic perspective to understand cities and their social and cultural processes. Addresses two major areas. The development and social dynamics in North American and European cities. The urban transformations in Asian, African, and Latin American societies that were recently predominantly rural and agrarian.

  Terms: Winter 2015

  Instructors: Forest, Benjamin; Oswin, Natalie (Winter)

  • Note: Winter

  • Note: 3 hours

• GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits)

  Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)

  Overview

  Geography : Introduction to the study of landforms as products of geomorphic and geologic systems acting at and near the Earth's surface. The process geomorphology approach will be used to demonstrate how landforms of different geomorphic settings represent a dynamic balance between forces acting in the environment and the physical properties of materials present.

  Terms: Fall 2014

  Instructors: Pollard, Wayne H (Fall)

  • Fall

  • 3 hours

9 credits from Geography (GEOG) courses at the 300 or 400 level.