The geography of economic, social, and environmental well-being and inequality. The course will provide an integrated perspective on the causes, interconnections, and consequences across time and space of, among others, globalization, climate change, poverty, employment, migration and urban growth, agricultural productivity, rural development, policies and international trade. Portraits of selected countries and regions will be developed.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Spring 2018Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2018Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Spring 2019Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2019Instructor: Unlisted/TBD

Catastrophic Environmental Events (CCE) that are becoming more common i this time of global environmental change and it is essential that today's students be equipped with the knowledge and skills to be leaders as we, as a society, understand the upheaval that these CCEs are causing. Students will examine how CEEs shape human society and ecosystem from the interdisciplinary perspective afforded by the field of Geography. Students will use the latest geographic science concepts and techniques in exploring these events.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Spring 2015Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Fall 2015Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Spring 2016Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Spring 2018Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Spring 2019Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Winter 2020Instructor: Joshua Wayland

Introduction to technical methods used in gathering, analyzing, and presenting geospatial information, addressing the needs of geospatial analysis, such as environmental monitoring, situational awareness, disaster management, and human systems. Topics include basics of locational reference systems, map projections, satellite and airborne remote sensing, global positioning systems, geographic information systems, cartography, and introductory statistics and probability. The course is a gateway to more advanced technical classes in geoinformatics.

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    Fall 2015Instructor: Ruibo Han
    Fall 2015Instructor: Ruibo Han
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBD

A systematic introduction to the processes and associated forms of the atmosphere and earth's surfaces emphasizing the interaction between climatology, hydrology and geomorphology.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Spring 2015Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Fall 2015Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Spring 2016Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Spring 2018Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus
    Spring 2019Instructor: Keith YearwoodView: Syllabus

Purpose: increase student knowledge of professional development opportunities in Geography through classroom activities and invited speakers, and to build awareness of career development tools and strategies. The main focus of the class is to prepare students to use the tools needed to pursue professional opportunities, including internships, jobs, and graduate school. Special emphasis will be on résumé building, cover letter writing, communication skills, and job, internship, and graduate school research.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Kristen Halliday
    Fall 2015Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Spring 2016Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Summer 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Spring 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2016Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Spring 2018Instructor: Amanda Hoffman-HallView: Syllabus
    Spring 2019Instructor: Amanda Hoffman-HallView: Syllabus

Concepts and principles of Earth observation and remote sensing in relation to photographic, thermal infrared and radar imaging. Methods of obtaining quantitative information from remotely-sensed images. Interpretation of remotely-sensed images emphasizing the study of spatial and environmental relationships.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Peter V. PotapovView: Syllabus
    Spring 2015Instructor: Tatiana V. Loboda
    Spring 2017Instructor: Belen FranchView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Peter V. PotapovView: Syllabus
    Spring 2018Instructor: Belen FranchCo-Instructor: Sergii SkakunView: Syllabus
    Spring 2019Instructor: Belen FranchView: Syllabus
    Fall 2019Instructor: Sergii SkakunView: Syllabus
    Fall 2020Instructor: Sergii SkakunView: Syllabus

Essentials in the quantitative analysis of spatial and other data, with a particular emphasis on statistics and programming. Topics include data display, data description and summary, statistical inference and significance tests, analysis of variance, correlation, regression, and some advanced concepts, such as matrix methods, principal component analysis, and spatial statistics. Students will develop expertise in data analysis using advanced statistical software.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Giovanni BaiocchiView: Syllabus
    Winter 2015Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2015Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Fall 2016Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Summer 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Spring 2019Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Summer 2018Instructor: Joanne Hall

Principles of managing scarce resources in a world where everyone faces tradeoffs across both time and space. Focuses on the relationship between globalization processes and changing patterns of locational advantages, production, trade, population, socioeconomic and environmental grace and sustainability. (Human Geography)

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    Fall 2013Instructor: Julie A. Silva
    Fall 2016Instructor: Julie A. Silva
    Fall 2014Instructor: Julie A. SilvaView: Syllabus
    Fall 2015Instructor: Julie A. Silva
    Fall 2017Instructor: Joshua WaylandView: Syllabus
    Winter 2018Instructor: Joshua Wayland
    Summer 2018Instructor: Joshua Wayland
    Winter 2019Instructor: Joshua Wayland
    Summer 2019Instructor: Joshua Wayland
    Fall 2019Instructor: Julie A. Silva

Characteristics and organization of geographic data; creation and use of digital geospatial databases; metadata; spatial data models for thematic mapping and map analysis; use of geographic information system in society, government, and business. Practical training with use of advanced software and geographic databases. (Technical)

Course Offerings:
    Fall 2014Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Winter 2015Instructor: Unlisted/TBD
    Winter 2015Instructor: Unlisted/TBD
    Spring 2015Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Fall 2015Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Fall 2016Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Spring 2019Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Winter 2020Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus

Supervised field training to provide career experience. Introduction to professional level activities, demands, opportunities. Placement at a public agency, non-profit organization, or private firm. Participation requires application to the internship advisor in preceding semester.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Unlisted/TBD
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Summer 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus

Supervised field training to provide career experience. Introduction to professional-level activities, demands, opportunities. Placement at a public agency, nonprofit organization, or private firm. Participation requires application to the internship advisor in preceding semester.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Unlisted/TBD
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Summer 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDCo-Instructor: Amanda Hoffman-HallView: Syllabus

Applied introduction to field methods. This class is built around a two week field trip (mid-August) with a base camp in the headwaters of the Potomac River in the mountains of West Virginia. During the camp the following topics are covers: GPS (global positions system), stream hydrology measurements, vegetation classification and ordination, micrometeorlogical measurements, soils, water quality, remote sensing and GIS, local environmental issues, geomophology and paleohistory, and natural and cultural history. (Technical)

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Ralph DubayahView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Ralph DubayahView: Syllabus

To develop an understanding of the geographic contexts of Sub-Saharan Africa, including an overview of the physical,
bioclimatic, historical, cultural, political, demographic, health and economic geographies of Sub-Saharan Africa. Students will ‘fill in the map’ of Africa by studying the spatial distribution within each of these geographic domains. In addition to an overview of geography South of the Sahara, the Congo will be taken as a more intensive case study through additional readings, lectures and discussions. (Integrated Geography)

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    Fall 2015Instructor: Julie A. Silva
    Fall 2017Instructor: Matthew C. HansenView: Syllabus

Basic issues concerning the natural history of humans from the perspective of the geographer. Basic components of selected behavioral and natural systems, their evolution and adaptation, and survival strategies. (Human Geography)

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Martha GeoresView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Martha GeoresView: Syllabus

This course will provide an introduction to modern econometric techniques in general and spatial econometrics in particular. It is designed for senior and graduate students of geography department who may have relatively limited background in statistics, mathematics, and econometrics but are keen to learn this ‘difficult’ subject. This course will use the popular open source statistical computer language R. Its focus is on using statistical computing to produce analytical reports for real-world applications, research papers, and dissertations.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Laixiang Sun
    Fall 2015Instructor: Laixiang SunView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Laixiang SunView: Syllabus

Biogeographical topics of global significance, including a consideration of measurement techniques, and both descriptive and mechanistic modeling. Topics may include: scale in biogeography, climate and vegetation, global carbon cycle, biodiversity, interannual variability in the biosphere, land cover, global biospheric responses to climate change, NASA's Mission to Planet Earth and Earth Observation System. (Physical Geography)

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    Fall 2014Instructor: George Hurtt
    Fall 2015Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus
    Fall 2016Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus
    Fall 2018Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus
    Fall 2019Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus

Advanced skills of computer mapping using more sophisticated software packages. Map projection evaluation and selection, coordinate system conversion, techniques of quantitative thematic mapping, map design and generalization, hypermedia and animated cartography. Emphasis on designing and making cartographically sound sophisticated thematic maps. (Technical)

Course Offerings:
    Fall 2014Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Fall 2015Instructor: Naijun ZhouView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Kathleen StewartView: Syllabus

Introduction to key aspects of database design for GIS applications; major database models that support spatial data; formal models for key spatial relationships that underlie many different GIS applications; basics of SQL for making queries on datasets; design and construction of ArcGIS geodatabases; ArcGIS tools for geoprocessing. Lab sections will occasionally meet in LEF 1136 or 1138. Students must pay a $40.00 lab materials fee.

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    Fall 2016Instructor: Unlisted/TBD
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBD

This course is intended as a survey of the theory and methods pertaining to social networks. Class time will be devoted to learning principles, theoretical perspectives, and appropriate software packages (mainly those in R) for designing a study for gathering network data, and analyzing those data. The readings are a combination of introductory-level material, classic, scholarly readings in the field, and empirical studies that apply social network analytic techniques to topics relevant to the social sciences as a whole.

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    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBD

Introduces students to the nature and practice of science in physical and human geography, including practical methods for research productivity, professional, societal and ethical obligations of scientists, the philosophy of science, and the scientific literature. Students will prepare and critically evaluate research proposals.

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    Fall 2014Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus

Biogeographical topics of global significance, including a consideration of measurement techniques, and both descriptive and mechanistic modeling. Topics may include: scale in biogeography, biodiversity, carbon geography, climate and vegetation, interannual variability in the biosphere, land cover, global biospheric responses to climate change, NASA's Mission to Planet Earth and Earth Observation System. The class focuses on both natural and athropogenic controls, impacts of biography on climate and ecosystem services and different methods in biogeography.

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    Fall 2015Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus
    Fall 2016Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus
    Fall 2018Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus
    Fall 2019Instructor: George HurttView: Syllabus

This course covers how to create, test, and publish mobile GIS applications that work across multiple platforms (Android, iOS, and Black Berry Tablet OS) and adapt to a smartphone or tablet display.

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    Fall 2013Instructor: Eunjung Elle Lim
    Fall 2014Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Fall 2015Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Fall 2016Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Eunjung Elle LimView: Syllabus

Provide foundations and understanding on various issues related to modeling and simulation in GIS context. It will addresses the concepts, tools, and techniques of GIS modeling, and presents modeling concepts and theory as well as provides opportunities for hands-on model design, construction, and application. The focus will be on raster-based modeling. This course is also application-orientated, particularly in these fields such as terrain modeling, LULC modeling, hydrological modeling, suitability modeling, etc.

Course Offerings:
    Fall 2014Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Fall 2013Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Fall 2015Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Fall 2016Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Spring 2018Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus

Detailed examination of land remote sensing instruments, observatories and resultant measurements in the optical portion of the EM spectrum. Includes computer-based exercises that examine the importance of data geo-registration and radiometric calibration in land measurements.

Course Offerings:
    Fall 2015Instructor: Tatiana V. LobodaView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Tatiana V. LobodaView: Syllabus

This course will provide an introduction to modern econometric techniques in general and spatial econometrics in particular. It is designed for senior and graduate students of geography department who may have relatively limited background in statistics, mathematics, and econometrics but are keen to learn this ‘difficult’ subject. This course will use the popular open source statistical computer language R. Its focus is on using statistical computing to produce analytical reports for real-world applications, research papers, and dissertations.

Course Offerings:
    Fall 2014Instructor: Laixiang Sun
    Fall 2015Instructor: Laixiang SunView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Laixiang SunView: Syllabus

This course is intended as a survey of the theory and methods pertaining to social networks. Class time will be devoted to learning principles, theoretical perspectives, and appropriate software packages (mainly those in R) for designing a study for gathering network data, and analyzing those data. The readings are a combination of introductory-level material, classic, scholarly readings in the field, and empirical studies that apply social network analytic techniques to topics relevant to the social sciences as a whole.

Course Offerings:
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBD

This course is intended as a survey of the theory and methods pertaining to social networks. Class time will be devoted to learning principles, theoretical perspectives, and appropriate software packages (mainly those in R) for designing a study for gathering network data, and analyzing those data. The readings are a combination of introductory-level material, classic, scholarly readings in the field, and empirical studies that apply social network analytic techniques to topics relevant to the social sciences as a whole.

Course Offerings:
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBDView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Unlisted/TBD

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    Fall 2017Instructor: Giovanni BaiocchiView: Syllabus

Each student must undertake a project as a demonstration of his/her competence in geospatial science and technologies. The data and materials for this project can originate from an internship (internal or external to the department), or from relevant work experience at the student's current employer. The Department of Geographical Sciences will work with each student individually to determine the best mechanism for obtaining the necessary data and experience.

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    Spring 2015Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Fall 2015Instructor: Eunjung Elle LimView: Syllabus
    Spring 2017Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Fall 2017Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Spring 2016Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Spring 2018Instructor: Jonathan ResopView: Syllabus
    Spring 2014Instructor: Jack (Jianguo) MaView: Syllabus