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USC Catalogue 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Geography

Return to: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  

College Academic Services Building 200
(213) 740-8555
Email: jmcody@dornsife.usc.edu
Interim Chair: Jane M. Cody, PhD

Programs

Courses

Geography

  • GEOG 255 American Environmentalism

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    Geographic and historic approach to the growth of environmental awareness in the United States from Colonial times to the present. Extensive use of case materials.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENST-255

  • GEOG 257g Environment and Ethics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Examination of ethical issues in environmental context: systematic analysis of problems associated with protection and use of selected environments.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  • GEOG 345 Conservation of Natural Resources

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Interaction between resource conservation and people based on recent advances, current developments, and future resource utilization. Special attention to the western United States. Field trips.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENST-345

  • GEOG 360 Environmental Disasters

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Evaluates the causes, effects, and responses to international environmental disasters. Emphasis is on contemporary case studies in a theoretical context.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ENST-360

  • GEOG 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • GEOG 431 California’s Changing Landscapes

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Type study of a region; distribution of physical and cultural phenomena; delimitation into natural regions; analysis of human-environment interaction in regions of the state. Field trips.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • GEOG 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: max 12
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Individual research and readings.
    Not available for graduate credit.

  • GEOG 593 Practicum in Teaching the Liberal Arts

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in MDA 593 )

  • GEOG 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Seminar in selected topics in geography.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • GEOG 681 Environmental Modeling with GIS

    Units: 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Advanced topics related to the collection, analysis, modeling, interpretation, and display of environmental information using GIS and related technologies.
    Recommended Preparation: graduate standing and prior GIS experience equivalent to SSCI 382  or department approval.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • GEOG 682 Health and Place

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examines the relationship between health and place and how geospatial approaches to analyzing and visualizing spatial data may advance our understanding of disease systems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • GEOG 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • GEOG 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • GEOG 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • GEOG 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • GEOG 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  • GEOG 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit