Students must check to ensure that prerequisites are met. Students may be deregistered, at the request of the instructor, from any course for which prerequisites and/or restrictions have not been met.
GEOGRAPHY COURSES
GEOG 1F90
Introduction to Human Geography
Practical and problem-oriented examination of spatial patterns of human organization and their links with social, cultural, economic, political and ecological processes.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
may be offered online.
GEOG 1F91
Principles of Physical Geography
The interactions of atmosphere, soils, vegetation and landforms occurring at the surface of the Earth. The development of natural environments and impacts upon people and their activities.
Lectures, 2 hours per week; lab, 2 hours bi-weekly.
GEOG 2P01
Introduction to Social Geography
Understanding the connections between space, society and knowledge; minds and bodies, communities, cities and streets, nations, economies and institutions, and ruralities.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
GEOG 2P03
Cities in a Globalizing World
Introduction to role of global economy in contemporary city formation and evolution. Urban-economic geography theories and methodologies. Role of economy in the production of urban policy. Relation between geographical division of labor, regional specialization, trade and urbanization. Gender, race, and class in urban-economic context.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 2P02.
#GEOG 2P05
Earth Surface Processes
(also offered as ERSC 2P05)
Earth surface processes and geomorphology within global environments. A dynamic and physically based account of processes and the Earth's surface, linking the fields of sedimentology, physical geography and fluid mechanics.
Lectures, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F91 or ERSC 1P02 (1F01).
*GEOG 2P06
Cultural and Historical Geography
(also offered as PCUL 2P06)
Interactions among culture, society and landscape. The material and symbolic manifestations of culture in processes of landscape change.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, COMM 1F90, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TOUR 2P06.
*GEOG 2P07
Introduction to Geospatial Technologies
(also offered as ERSC 2P07, IASC 2P07 and TOUR 2P07)
Concepts and applications of geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS) and remote sensing. Properties of digital maps, airborne data and satellite imagery. Principles of map compilation and design. Practical experience in computer mapping, image interpretation and GIS analysis.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
*GEOG 2P08
Climate Crisis
(also offered as ERSC 2P08)
Introduction to the Earth's atmosphere and the natural and anthropogenic drivers that change the Earth's climate system. Greenhouse effect, human activities that alter the climate system, climate models, climates of the past, projections of future climate.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: may be offered online.
*GEOG 2P13
Resource and Environmental Geographies
(also offered as TOUR 2P13)
Analysis of the relation between resources, global environmental dynamics, and the management of uncertainty. Emphasis on the changing pattern of energy flows.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, 1F91, ERSC 1P01 and 1P02 (1F01), (1F90), INTC 1F90, TOUR (TMGT/TREN) 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 2P18
Introduction to Plate Tectonics
(also offered as ERSC 2P18)
Topics include plate boundary settings, plate motion, driving forces, earthquakes and volcanic activity and detailed case studies. Labs focus on the analysis of geological maps.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F91 or one ERSC credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99.
#GEOG 2P21
Introduction to Research Design and Methodology
(also offered as TOUR 2P21)
Concepts related to research design. Properties of knowledge, preparing for research, describing and interpreting data.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, 1F91, TOUR (TMGT/TREN) 1P91 and 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 2P30
Culture, Heritage and Tourism
(also offered as TOUR 2P30)
Principles of preservation, conservation, and management of built and cultural resources for heritage tourism destinations on a variety of scales from World Heritage Sites to local heritage and cultural tourism attractions. Regional identities and environments and the importance of small and medium sized enterprises.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, TOUR 1P91, 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TMGT (TREN) 2P10.
#GEOG 2P33
Sustainable Integrated Waste Management
(also offered as TOUR 2P33)
Waste reduction, reuse and recycling; environmentally sensible design. Waste auditing, optimal materials use and life cycle analysis. Sewage treatment technologies. Composting for managing organic waste and sewage. Tourism and waste management on land, on the water and in the air; managing wastes in remote and environmentally sensitive areas, camps and resorts. Policy, legislation and case studies.
Lectures, seminar, workshop, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, TOUR 1P91, 1P92 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TMGT (TREN) 2P93.
GEOG 2P50
Geography of Canada
Analysis of factors underlying the development of Canada's distinctive regions emphasizing major metropolitan areas, resource regions and areas of decline.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Note: major credit will not be granted to GEOG majors.
GEOG 2P66
Introduction to Planning and Community Development
Introduction to planning theory, concepts and practice. Evolution of approaches and frameworks in planning from the 19th century through to today. Introductory overview of planning sub-fields: urban and regional planning; transportation planning, community development and social planning, rural planning, environmental planning, and economic development planning.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 2P94
Human-Dominated Ecosystems
(also offered as TOUR 2P94)
Human impacts in natural and built ecosystems from local to global scales. Key environmental issues, principles, policy options, problem solving and possibilities for creative planned change. Local examples from the Greenbelt and Niagara.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, 1F91, TOUR (TMGT/TREN) 1P91 and 1P92 (1F90) or permission of the instructor.
Note: the majority of classroom lectures will be replaced by 3-4 full-day field programs within the Niagara Region on Saturdays and Sundays in September and October; final scheduling details to be determined in consultation with students. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TREN 2P16 and TMGT (TREN) 2P94.
*GEOG 3F90
London Field Course
(also offered as TOUR 3F90)
Growth and development of London as a global city, capital of Britain and major metropolitan area examining its major functions, institutions, peoples and internal spatial structures; major planning issues involved in achieving an enriched urban environment.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits, two TOUR (TMGT/TREN) credits or permission of the instructor.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3F92.
*GEOG 3F97
Tourism Field Course
(also offered as TOUR 3F97)
Intensive field course with relevance to Tourism Studies.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): two TOUR (TMGT/TREN), two GEOG credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TMGT (TREN) 3F70.
GEOG 3P04
Digital Mapping
Principles of cartography and advanced aspects of map design. Topics include geographic coordinate systems, cartographic techniques, data analysis, advances in online mapping, and use of mapping software.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P07 or permission of the instructor.
Note: practical experiences in mapping quantitative data and digital map production using commercially available software.
*GEOG 3P05
Geographic Information Systems
(also offered as ERSC 3P05 and IASC 3P05)
Principles and use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool for investigating and communicating spatial patterns in natural and anthropogenic systems: data acquisition, data management, spatial analysis, application development and cartographic display.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P07 or permission of the instructor.
*GEOG 3P07
Remote Sensing
(also offered as ERSC 3P07)
Theory and practice of remote sensing. Multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal, radar and laser imaging of the Earth's surface from airborne and spaceborne platforms. Image interpretation and image-analysis techniques.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P07 or permission of the instructor.
*GEOG 3P08
Meteorology
(also offered as ERSC 3P08)
Major concepts, principles and interactions related to the atmospheric-Earth systems, weather analysis and forecasting, natural and anthropogenic factors related to climate change and variability, weather hazards and extreme events, and biophysical feedback effects.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P08 or permission of instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG (ERSC) 2P04.
GEOG 3P09
Principles of Biogeography
Abiotic and biotic controls of plant and animal distributions at global to local scales. Impacts of climate and environmental change on organisms.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG (2P04), 2P08 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG (ERSC) 2P09.
GEOG 3P12
Climate and Winegrape Production
Climatological aspects of winegrape production emphasizing selected wine regions of the world. Effects of climate, weather-related diseases, topography, soil and viticulture practices on winegrape production.
Lectures, lab, field work, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG (2P04), 2P08 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students enrolled in the OEVI program and OEVI certificate students are permitted to register without the prerequisite.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in OEVI 3P12.
*GEOG 3P13
Applied Climatology
(also offered as ERSC 3P13)
Studies in selected topics from the field of energy and moisture exchanges, air pollution, climatic change, climatic impact assessment and bioclimatology. Human impact on the climate along with applied microclimatological investigations and climatic data analysis.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG (2P04), 2P08 or permission of the instructor.
*GEOG 3P14
Introduction to Soil Science
(also offered as OEVI 3P14)
Consideration of soil as a finite environmental resource. Physical, chemical, biological and hydrological processes within the soil system. Assessment and rehabilitation of contaminated soils.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 3P21
Qualitative Research Design and Methodology
(also offered as TOUR 3P21)
Aspects of qualitative research: project formulation, methodologies, writing-up; relation of theory and methodology.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P21 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 2P10.
#GEOG 3P22
Quantitative Research Design and Methodology
(also offered as TOUR 3P22)
Geographical concepts and applications of descriptive and inferential statistics. Use of measures of central tendency, hypothesis testing (t-test and ANOVA), regression analysis, non-parametric tests, spatial statistics and use of geographic information systems (GIS).
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P21 or permission of the instructor.
Students will not receive earned credit for GEOG 3P22 if MATH 1F92 has been successfully completed. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 2P11, 2P12 and MATH 1P98.
#GEOG 3P24
Glacial Geomorphology/Geology
(also offered as ERSC 3P24)
Introduction to glaciology; glacial processes, glacial deposits; their genesis and sedimentology. Relationship of glacial processes to landforms and surface topography. Glacial systems and facies associations. Applied aspects of glacial geology such as drift exploration.
Lectures, lab, field work, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P05.
#GEOG 3P25
Quaternary Geology
(also offered as ERSC 3P25)
Glaciations in the geological record, causes of glaciations, biotic responses to climatic changes, eustatic and isostatic sea level changes in response to glaciation, Quaternary stratigraphy and correlation of glacial and non-glacial events, application of Quaternary geology to economic and environmental problems, methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 3P24, ERSC 2P03, 2P16 or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 3P26
Glacial Soils and Sediments
(also offered as ERSC 3P26)
Applied aspects of glacial deposits. Geotechnical and pedochemical properties and structural attributes of glacial soils and sediments. Micromorphology, glacial soil discontinuity analyses. Introductory aspects of soil mechanics. Drift exploration. Landfill problems and issues related to glacial soils and sediments.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P24.
#GEOG 3P30
Tourism Planning and Development
(also offered as TOUR 3P30)
Role and function of tourism policy and planning. Planning and development of tourism resorts, attractions, tourism sites and regional economies through tourism; consideration of regional, provincial and national developments.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two TOUR (TMGT/TREN), two GEOG credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TMGT (TREN) 3P10.
#GEOG 3P33
Biodiversity
(also offered as ERSC 3P33)
Dispersal and migration; adaptation; speciation; extinction; ecological interaction; species invasion; plant and animal introductions; habitat fragmentation and application of biogeographical theory to conservation biology, and human impacts on fire regimes.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1P91 and 1P92 (1F90) or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 3P34
Sustainable Transportation
(also offered as TOUR 3P34)
Interdisciplinary survey of the environmental, cultural, social and economic effects of automobiles, airplanes, trains and watercraft in built and natural environments. Impacts of tourist mobility. Principles, policies, and planning for sustainable transportation.
Lectures, seminar, workshop, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): two TOUR (TMGT/TREN), two GEOG credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG (TMGT/TREN) 3P18.
#GEOG 3P35
Biomonitoring and Environmental Stress Assessment
(also offered as ERSC 3P35)
Use of biodiversity indicators, field methods and passive and active sensors to assess environmental quality. Collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data to investigate urban air and water pollution and forest health.
Lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 10.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 3P09 (2P09), BIOL 1P91 and 1P92 (1F90), ERSC 1P01 and 1P02 (1F01), (2P09).
Note: field trip(s) in September. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
#GEOG 3P37
Croatia Field Course
(also offered as TOUR 3P37)
Intensive field course of relevance to Tourism Studies.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 2(alpha)99, two TOUR (TMGT/TREN) credits or permission of the instructor.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TMGT (TREN) 3P70 and 3P71.
#GEOG 3P40
The New Niagara
(also offered as CANA 3P40)
Quantitative and qualitative techniques for examining Niagara's cultural, demographic and economic changes. Topics may include changes in Niagara's industries and occupations, Niagara's position in the world economy, regional growth coalitions, economic restructuring, income inequality, free trade, deindustrialization, agricultural decline, tourism, structural unemployment, demographic transition, in- and out-migration, brain drain, greying population, and transition to cognitive cultural economy.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1F90, CANA 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
Note: labs involve using GIS and other software to map and analyze cultural, demographic and economic change in Niagara.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3P93 and GEOG (TREN/TMGT) 3P98.
GEOG 3P45
Urban Dystopias
Development of historical and contemporary cities under the influence of capital, religion, gender construction, racism, and environmental planning and design theories. Role of circular and cumulative causation, path dependence and unintended consequences in producing urban dystopias. Urban policies and urban political economies. Urban and social reform. Urban social and environmental justice.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P03, 2P06 or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 3P50
Resource Management: Discourses, Policies and Ethics
(also offered as TOUR 3P50)
Ethical and political implications of competing discourses of both human and natural resource management. Emphasis on the production and uses of power from the level of individual leadership and network-building to that of the global governance of resources.
Lectures/seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P13 or permission of the instructor.
GEOG 3P56
Physical Geography Field Course
Application of geographical principles and field techniques to problems in physical geography.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): completion of Year 2 GEOG requirements in the BSc GEOG (single or combined) programs.
Note: field work in October in the week following Thanksgiving Day. Students must register with the Department by April of the preceding academic year. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3P57.
*GEOG 3P57
Human Geography and Tourism Studies Field Course
(also offered as TOUR 3P57)
Application of geographical principles and field techniques to problems in human geography.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): completion of Year 2 GEOG requirements in the BA GEOG (single or combined) programs or completion of Year 2 TOUR requirements in the BA Tourism Studies programs.
Note: field work in October in the week following Thanksgiving Day. Students must register with the Department by April of the preceding academic year. Students are expected to pay their own expenses.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 3P56.
GEOG 3P66
Critical Perspectives on Planning and Community Development
Detailed exploration of contentious planning issues affecting urban and rural communities. Causes, impacts and proposed solutions for major planning problems, emphasizing concerns such as social and environmental justice, economic restructuring, inclusion and exclusion, and transportation disadvantage.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P03, 2P06, 2P66 or permission of the instructor.
GEOG 3P70
Geographies of Social Exclusion and Social Change
Detailed theoretical and conceptual explorations of how social relations, identities and inequalities are produced and reproduced in and through various material, digital and imagined spaces. Topics include gendered, racial and sexualized inequalities, homelessness, social security and poverty, dis/abilities, colonial present, health geographies, geographies of care, militarized violence, and citizenship.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P01 or permission of the instructor.
GEOG 3P80
Geography and International Development
Analysis of international development theory, policy and practice. Development's relation to globalization, imperialism and neo-colonialism. Development solutions to environmental problems. Selected case studies from the developing world.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 2P01, 2P13 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in INTC 3P80.
*GEOG 3P83
Geography of Water Resources
(also offered as ERSC 3P83 and TOUR 3P83)
Physical and human factors affecting patterns of use and development of water resources. Emphasis on patterns of supply and demand, approaches to development and management of the resource, problems and alternative strategies.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, 1F91, ERSC 1P01 and 1P02 (1F01) or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 3P85
Ecology of a Changing Planet
(also offered as BIOL 3P85 and ERSC 3P85)
Impact of environmental change and human activity on ecosystems. Topics include climate change and global warming, habitat fragmentation, extinction, invasive species, conservation biology and the management of ecological integrity.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 3P09 (2P09), BIOL 2P05, 2Q04, (ERSC 2P09).
GEOG 3P86
Place, Belonging and Exclusion
Ways that places and cultural identities produce one another through ongoing processes of contestation. Analyzes power, belonging, transgression and resistance.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 2P01, 2P03, 2P06 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TOUR (TMGT/TREN) 3P86.
*GEOG 3P91
Chicago Field Course
(also offered as TOUR 3P91)
Cultural and historical geographies of Chicago. Emphasis on the urban spectacle of the modern city and the contrasting geographies of race and class inequalities through the examination of public space, architecture, housing and suburbanization, and cultural production.
Restriction: permission of the Department
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits, two TOUR (TMGT/TREN) credits or permission of the instructor.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
*GEOG 3P95
Advanced Geographic Information Systems
(also offered as ERSC 3P95)
Advanced study of geographic information systems emphasizing the use of several leading edge software for solving complex geospatial questions. Evaluating the extent of human-induced landscape changes. Builds on key concepts from GEOG 3P05, including data acquisition techniques (e.g., GPS, unmanned aviation), data management, georeferencing, geoprocessing, spatial modelling and statistics, and cartography.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. After that date open to GEOG (single, combined or general studies), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ERSC (single, combined or general studies) majors, GHUM, SOSC students, GEOG and ERSC minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P05.
*GEOG 3Q93
Vancouver Field Course
(also offered as TOUR 3Q93)
Cultural, historical and tourism geographies of Vancouver. Emphasis on the urban spectacle of the modern city and the contrasting geographies of race and class inequalities through the examination of public space, architecture, tourism spaces, housing and suburbanization and cultural production.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits, two TOUR (TMGT/TREN) credits or permission of the instructor.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
#GEOG 3Q99
Field School-Quaternary Geology
(also offered as ERSC 3Q99)
Field and laboratory methods for analysis of Quaternary landscapes based on field sites including fluvial, hillslope, coastal, glacial, and biosphere examples.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): ERSC (GEOG) 2P17 or ERSC 2P18.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
GEOG 3V60-3V69
Special Topics in Geography
Topics selected from year to year on the basis of faculty expertise.
GEOG 3V60
2019-2020: Movement, Mobilities and Environment
Mobility as an important resource for 21st-century life. Introduction to geography's mobility turn, focusing on mobility justice, mobility disasters, mobility capital, differential mobilities and the environmental implications of contemporary mobilities.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 1F90, 1F91, TOUR (TMGT/TREN) 1P91 and 1P92, GEOG 2P13 or permission of the instructor.
GEOG 3V61
2019-2020: Canadian Census
Historical and contemporary structure of the Canadian Census and its related surveys, surveys carried out by Statistics Canada such as the Labour Force Survey or Community Health Survey. Application of these data in digital mapping and demographic analysis.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or permission of the instructor.
GEOG 3V90-3V99
Selected Field Studies and Directed Readings
Application of geographical methods and techniques to the analysis of field data and problems; two weeks of field work in a selected area.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: experience in hiking and wilderness travel recommended.
*GEOG 4F90
Honours Thesis
(also offered as TOUR 4F90)
Individual research project carried out under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), TMGT and TREN majors with a minimum 75 percent in all Year 3 Geography or Tourism courses, approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Note: students contemplating a thesis must consult with a possible Faculty Supervisor in D2 of Year 3. The student must submit a detailed proposal to the possible Faculty Supervisor by March 15 of D3 of Year 3. Regulations governing the thesis may be obtained from the Administrative Co-ordinator.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in TMGT (TREN) 4F90.
*GEOG 4F99
Honours Internship
(also offered as TOUR 4F99)
Internship on a specific geographic problem or task under either the direction of a faculty member, or in a government or private agency working under the supervision of that agency.
Internship, 8 hours per week for 15 weeks; seminar, 3 hours per week for 9 weeks.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), TMGT and TREN majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department
*GEOG 4P07
Advanced Remote Sensing
(also offered as ERSC 4P07)
Theory and practice of in situ, airborne and spaceborne remote sensing. Emphasis on techniques used to study natural and human-made environments. Topics include data acquisition and preprocessing, image analysis, accuracy assessment and the production of information products. Image processing and analyses using commercially available image-analysis software.
Lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P07 or permission of the instructor.
GEOG 4P12
Research Topics in Applied Climatology
Climatic hazards, their causes, impacts, mitigation and adaptation strategies, vulnerability issues, field work, data collection and analysis, methodological approaches and applications to several fields of human activities, environmental impact assessment.
Seminar, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG (2P04) or 2P08; GEOG 3P12 or 3P13 or permission of the instructor.
*GEOG 4P26
Stream Form and Function
(also offered as BIOL 4P26 and ERSC 4P26)
Exploration of the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of stream systems.
Seminar, lab, field work, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BIOL (single or combined), BIOL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 3P09, (ERSC 2P09), BIOL 2P05, 2Q04 or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 4P28
Advanced Glacial Sedimentology
(also offered as ERSC 4P28)
Sedimentology of present day glacial environments and of Quaternary sediments. Thermo-mechanical principles of glacier physics as applied to past and present glacier ice conditions. Glacial lithofacies associations. Glacio-tectonics and diagenesis. Principles of glacial erosion, entrainment and deposition.
Lectures, lab, local field trip, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P24 or 3P26.
#GEOG 4P32
Sustainable Rural Tourism
(also offered as TOUR 4P32)
Socio-economic challenges of rural communities in developed and developing nations. Critical evaluation of rural tourism as an alternative community development tool.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), TMGT and TREN majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): two GEOG credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 3(alpha)99, two TOUR (TMGT/TREN) or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in GEOG 4P63 and TMGT (TREN) 4P17.
GEOG 4P50
Critical Analysis of Urban and Economic Geographies
Advanced study of the urban and economic geographies of 21st-century cities and their hinterlands, with special research projects in the Niagara Region. Possible topics include innovation, cultural economy, political economy, public policy and public space, brain-drain, population aging, deindustrialization, seasonal economies, high-tech manufacturing, retirement communities, youth poverty and long-term unemployment.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P45, 3P66 or permission of the instructor.
GEOG 4P66
Advanced Topics in Planning and Community Development
Application of planning skills to selected local and regional growth and development problems under the overarching theme of sustainable development.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P45, 3P66 or permission of the instructor.
Note: individual and group field-based projects, along with field trips, are integral components.
GEOG 4P70
Research in Social Geography
Advanced theories and themes in social geography including critical explorations of theoretical and conceptual understandings of power and resistance. Topics including social and spatial relations of intersectional power relations, new formations of difference and diversity as well as social resistance.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P70 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WGST 4P70.
GEOG 4P71
Research in Cultural Geography
Consideration of selected debates, theoretical issues and empirical themes relating to the spatiality of culture through small-group discussion and the pursuit of independent research projects.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P86 or permission of the instructor.
*GEOG 4P80
Dendrochronology
(also offered as BIOL 4P80 and ERSC 4P80)
Fundamental principles of tree-ring analysis and applications to address contemporary issues in the fields of climate and environmental change, geomorphology, archaeology and ecology.
Lectures, local field trip, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BIOL (single or combined), BIOL Honours/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and ERSC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): one of GEOG 3P09, BIOL 2Q04, (ERSC 2P09) or permission of the instructor.
Note: BIOL majors must take BIOL 2Q04; BIOL 2P93 or 2P94 is strongly recommended.
*GEOG 4P83
Research Themes in Water Resources
(also offered as TOUR 4P83)
Major debates and conflicts over water resources and their distribution. Emphasis on patterns of supply and demand, approaches to development and management of the resource, problems, and alternative strategies.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined), GEOG (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), TMGT and TREN majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P83 or permission of the instructor.
#GEOG 4P85
Ecosystems and Changing Disturbance Regimes
(also offered as BIOL 4P85 and ERSC 4P85)
Terrestrial ecosystem response to large-scale environmental change. Topics may include disturbance regimes, adaptation, alteration of biogeochemical cycles, invasive species and range shifts, carbon cycle feedbacks, predicting future climate and vegetation impacts, change detection, scaling-up and nonlinearity.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P85 or permission of the instructor.
GEOG 4P95
Directed Readings I
Topic not covered in the Department's regular course offerings.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the tutorial.
GEOG 4P96
Directed Readings II
Topic not covered in the Department's regular course offerings.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Note: topics must be chosen in consultation with a faculty member willing to supervise the tutorial.
GEOG 4P97
Soil Physics
Analysis of fundamental processes occurring within the physical environment of soils including the structural, mechanical and rheological properties of porous materials. Characterization, measurement and movement of soil water under both transient and steady state conditions. Application to environmental contamination problems.
Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG (single or combined) and GEOG (Honours)/BEd Intermediate/Senior) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3P14 or permission of the instructor.
CO-OP COURSES
GEOG 0N01
Co-op Work Placement I
First co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students
GEOG 0N02
Co-op Work Placement II
Second co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
GEOG 0N03
Co-op Work Placement III
Third co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
GEOG 0N04
Co-op Work Placement IV
Optional co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
GEOG 0N05
Work Placement V
Optional co-op work placement (4months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
GEOG 0N90
Co-op Professional Preparation
Provides students with the tools, resources and skills to maximize co-op employment and professional development opportunities.
Lectures, presentations, site visits, 1.5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
GEOG 2C01
Co-op Relective Learning and Integration I
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academic studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N01.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
GEOG 2C02
Co-op Reflective Learning and Integration II
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academic studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N02.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
GEOG 2C03
Co-op Reflective Learning and Integration III
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academics studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N03.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
GEOG 2C04
Co-op Reflective Learning and Integration IV
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academic studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N04.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
GEOG 2C05
Co-op Reflective Learning and Integration V
Provide student with the opportunity to apply what they've learned in their academic studies through career-oriented work experiences at employer sites.
Restriction: open to GEOG Co-op students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 0N90.
Corequisite(s): GEOG 0N05.
Note: students will be required to prepare learning objectives, participate in a site visit, write a work term report and receive a successful work term performance evaluation.
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