In-depth studies of selected topics.

Offered only in Santiago. Examines historical/intellectual/ material processes that transformed nature into natural resources to be exploited; ways global political process has guided global responses to environmental problems; Chilean environmental policy over the last 20 years.

Globalization, world economic processes, international development, and policy issues; emphasizing geographical perspectives.

Contemporary cities. Economic growth and decline. Social polarization. Construction of the built environment. Case studies from around the world.

Cities in western civilization through classical, medieval, mercantile, and industrial eras to 1945. Historical geographic meanings of urbanism; social construction of the built environment; and relationships between power, social justice, and urban spatial form.

Contemporary theories and methods. Traditional, historical-materialist, postmodernism, and post-structuralist approaches to landscape. Additional work required of graduate students.

In-depth reading of Marx's Capital to understand: (a) the relationship between political economy and the geographical landscape; (b) the formative role of "Capital" in contemporary geographic theory.

Contemporary debates in feminist geography on the gendered construction of space and the spatial construction of gender.

Reading and special work.

Data types, collection techniques, and processing strategies in natural resource survey. Monitoring and environmental sciences. Basic concepts of GIS data structures and algorithms. Data quality issues. User requirements, management aspects, and implementation experience.

An introduction to the structure and functions of the Internet and its impact on spatial relations from the global to the local. A detailed examination of the World Wide Web and practical training in web page design.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Approaches to research, alternative philosophies, and research designs. Research procedures, information gathering. Collection of original data. Formulation of individual research topics.

Historical survey of development of Geography. Emphasis on 20th century: regionalism, positivism, humanism, Marxism, feminism, post-structuralism/post-colonialism

Workshop on academic writing for geographers. Students exposed to the techniques of scholarly writing and practices of creative nonfiction.

Critical analysis of international development and sustainability. Focuses on the complex political, economic, cultural, and ecological processes involved in development discourse and practice. Readings and case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Topics to be selected in conference with advisor for individual program of study and research.

This course provides an overview of qualitative methods in human geography. It examines the relationship between methodology, epistemology, and politics, compares different qualitative methods, and gives students hands-on experience with a range of methodological tools.

Critical geographical analyses of inter-connected and cross-scalar role of water in environment, society, politics and economy globally. Investigates various water-society relationships, water governance, policies, crises, struggles, controversies, conflicts, and water justice, in theory and practice. Additional work required of graduate students.

Critical examination, creative exploration, and application of quantitative methods in human geography. Creative use of quantitative geographic analysis on various social and environmental justice issues, covering various methods in spatial statistics, categorical data analysis, research design, and visualization. Additional work for graduate students.

Investigation of the roots of the Anthropocene as a concept and a geologic epoch; examination of human drivers of and interactions with global environmental change. Additional work required of graduate students.

Exploration of the environmental factors that influence the distribution of organisms. Emphasis is on plant distributions and dynamics, and consideration includes both natural and human factors. Additional work required of graduate students.

Comprehensive treatment of the geography of wildfire. Topics include fire behavior, approaches to firefighting, ecological and human impacts of wildfire, geographic and historical variation in fire regimes, and the impacts of climate change on wildfire. Additional work required of graduate students.

Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Survey of political geographic research on states, nations, territories, and their connection with geopolitical theories and the practice of foreign policy; focus on critical approach to applied geopolitical thinking.

Memories play a key role in shaping how individuals and communities narrate their identities. Memories are also geographical, embedded in specific places, spaces, and landscapes. This seminar examines how those geographies are made through a wide range of social, cultural, and political practices. Additional work required for graduate students.

This course introduces students to (i) concepts and methodologies of 3D GIS (Geographic Information System) analysis; (ii) typical applications of 3D analysis in urban design and planning; and (iii) basic interface and operations in ArcGIS pro. Additional work required for graduate students.

Techniques and impacts of spatial storytelling from a geohumanities perspective. Ways of conceptualizing space, time, and realities. Study and practice with maps, texts, images, video, and other visualization techniques. Additional work required of graduate students.

Introduction to UAV operations, including FAA airspace, platforms and sensors; flight planning, data collection, image processing, and data analysis for geospatial mapping. Applications and societal impacts, including legal, safety, privacy, ethical issues. Additional work required of graduate students.

An introduction to map design, which includes clarifying communication goals, finding solutions, using graphics to promote an understanding of landscapes and spatial patterns, and exploring aesthetics, conceptual thinking, geometries, and ethics of cartographic representation.

Principles and environmental applications of remote sensing. Uses and limitations of remotely-sensed data; typical image processing operations and analyses; laboratory work and individual term project using remotely-sensed imagery. Additional work required for graduate students. 

Basic concepts in spatial data handling. Algorithms and data structures for Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Demonstration of power, potential, and limitations of GIS. Graduate students register for three credits. Undergraduate students register for four credits with required laboratory work.

Intermediate GIS methods for the study of urban environments and systems. Emphasis on practical and applied uses of GIS, project management and spatial analysis. Laboratory exercises, case studies, and course projects use real world data. Additional work required of graduate students.

Introduces community-based and participatory research methods and participatory GIS, including origins, ethics and challenges. Examines how and why grassroots organizations use GIS and geospatial technologies. Students conduct local research projects. Additional work required of graduate students.

Descriptive and inferential statistics for use geo-referenced data, spatial autocorrelation, and geostatistics. Geographic examples. Weekly labs. Individualized advanced work and term project.

Statistical analysis of spatial patterns in environmental data. Exploratory data analysis; estimation, modeling, and interpretation of variograms; prediction using driging. Applications in engineering, geography, earth science and ecology. Use of geostatistical software.

Effects of geographic information technologies on governments, communities, and individuals. Mapping as an information industry, a political process, a surveillance technology, and a communication medium. Copyright, access, hazard management, national defense, public participation, and privacy.

Supervised 135 hour internship in community-based participatory action research. Students work across disciplines and collaborate with community-based organizations to conduct geographic research on contemporary community issues. Additional work required of graduate students. Permission to enroll required.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester. *

Review of theories of development, economic growth, and social change. Comparison of explanatory power and limits of each theory. Review of prospects for synthesis and implications for empirical research in geography and other social sciences.

Research seminar on contemporary problems in human and regional geography, emphasizing development and socio-economic issues.

Explores the complex relationships between capitalism and the natural environment. It covers both classical and contemporary debates within political economy and geography.

Advanced work in climatology, land forms, and other aspects of physical geography.

Social dimensions of climate change from geographical and historical perspectives. Influence of climate change on society, history of climate science, culture and climate, climate movements and climate justice.

Origins of field, key debates, research methods relating to the historical geography of humans and the environment.

Conceptual origins, theoretical influences, and current debates in political-economic and cultural aspects of nature-society relations. Topics include environmental social movements, theories of nature, environmental justice, environmental conflicts, gender and environment.

This course is a critical review of Gramsci's contribution to political, cultural, and geographic thought and the interpretation of his work by scholars and activists in the Global North and South.

Physical processes of sediment transport in the environment including fluid behavior, sediment properties, roughness of bed forms, resistance to flow, initiation of particle motion, bed-load transport, and relevant practical issues.

Using GIS tools to calculate spatial statistics, identify spatial patterns (local and global), and perform spatial modeling (GWR)

The impact of the increasing hypermobility of capital and culture flows across borders on gender relations.

Examination of major currents in western cultural theory from the industrial revolution to the present, their development and transformation in light of advances in spatial theory.

Examination of contemporary debates in economic geography including the impact of the cultural and institutional turn. Also examines economic geography perspectives on globalization, labor, innovation, and restructuring. Permission of instructor.

Research seminar on current historiographic issues and archival methodologies in historical geography.

Research seminar devoted to topics of current interest in geospatial technology, cartographic communication, and the history of cartography in the twentieth-century.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Seminar focused on themes in political geography, broadly related to topics of space, government, territory, citizenship, nationalism, geopolitics, and political geographic theory.

Research seminar on theoretical and empirical issues in urban geography.

Specialized research topics dealing with the application of demographic measurements to geographic problems.

The relationships between gender, space, and place. Topics include the gendered spaces of everyday life, identity and spatial metaphor, geographies of the body and the border, human migration, gender and the city.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester. *

Participation in a discipline- or subject-related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Limited to those in good academic standing. Permission, in advance, of assigned instructor, department chair, or dean.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.