| GEOG 210 | Planet Earth: People and Place | Introduction to our earth as home to people and place through geographic approaches that analyze cultural, societal, economic, political, and environmental change. Topics include: human dimensions of climate change; sustainability; spatial analysis t... |
| GEOG 215 | Geography of the James River Watershed | Study of the local environments and protected areas within the James River watershed. Explores the natural and human connections that define the resource challenges and opportunities within this urban watershed. |
| GEOG 220 | Ecotourism | Ecotourism integrates environmental protection, education, empowerment, local livelihoods, and responsible travel. The study of ecotourism allows students to document and analyze complex interactions between society and nature. |
| GEOG 250 | Planet Earth: Wind, Water, Fire | Basic concepts of earth systems science and physical geography. Topics include: introduction to mapping, GIS and remote sensing; weather and climate; drought, floods, and environmental hydrology; earthquakes, volcanos, landforms and geomorphology; an... |
| GEOG 260 | Foundations of Geospatial Analysis | Concepts of mapping and spatial analysis using the ArcView GIS software package. Includes map analysis, data presentation, analysis of spatial relationships, the creation of spatial and tabular data, and the introduction of ArcView software extension... |
| GEOG 280 | Selected Topics | May be repeated when topics vary. |
| GEOG 315 | Landscape Ecology | Applied science that focuses on the development, consequences, and management of environmental patterns. These patterns include the spatial distributions of species and the environment resources upon which they depend. Attention is paid to the import... |
| GEOG 316 | Biogeography and Global Change | Study of the Earth’s biological diversity, the spatial distribution of species, and how these distributions change over time. Combining basic concepts in ecology and geography, this course provides a foundational understanding of biogeography and cri... |
| GEOG 320 | Power, Space, and Territory: Geographies of Political Change | Analyses of and explorations into the spatial dimensions and geographic characteristics of global, regional, and local political change; and the political economy and ecology of globalization. Topics include: imperialism; world systems theory; nation... |
| GEOG 325 | Latin American Geographies: Transnational and Local Connections | Latin America is a culturally and ecologically diverse region with historical and contemporary connections to locations around the world, including Richmond, Virginia. Documenting the movement of people and flows of ideas, goods, and services, this c... |
| GEOG 333 | Geographies of Amazonia | Explores the contradictions and connections of Amazonia. Considers the region's importance and relevance to the rest of the world through a study of the ecologies, histories, and geographies of Amazonia. Looks at the Amazon basin as much more than th... |
| GEOG 345 | Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, Nature | Applies geography's human-environment tradition to examine environmental, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of sustainability and sustainable development. Examinations into foundations and theories behind the concept of sustainable developmen... |
| GEOG 360 | Environmental Remote Sensing | Concepts of image acquisition, image interpretation, and satellite remote sensing. Includes electromagnetic spectrum concepts, acquisition of image data, visual characteristics of vegetation and landforms, image interpretation, classification and tra... |
| GEOG 365 | Advanced Spatial Analysis | Advanced topics in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) theory and application. Topics include use of the Spatial Analyst, 3-D Analyst, raster data sets, the Idrisi Software System, projects in environmental location analysis, retail site location, a... |
| GEOG 370 | Global Climate Investment | Geographic perspectives on economic development and spatial analysis of trends in the global economy. Topics include: natural resource location and distribution; commodity flows and chains; technological change and diffusion; international trade; ent... |
| GEOG 380 | Selected Topics | May be repeated when topics vary. |
| GEOG 388 | Individual Internship | Supervised independent work. No more than 1.5 units of internship in any one department and 3.5 units of internship overall may be counted toward required degree units. |
| GEOG 390 | Independent Study | Topics independently pursued under supervision of a faculty member. May be repeated twice for a total of up to two units. |
| GEOG 401 | Geography Capstone | Capstone course is the culmination of the Geography major. The primary objective is to further develop students' ability to conduct geographic research through the practical application of geographic methods and theory. Students will synthesize their... |
| GEOG 406 | Summer Undergraduate Research | Documentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 6 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at leas... |
| SUST 101 | Introduction to Sustainability | Provides a foundation for sustainability knowledge and problem solving. Explores the relationships between people and natural systems, examines pressing global challenges, and outlines leadership solutions to wicked challenges. Consideration of the m... |
| SUST 345 | Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, Nature | Applies geography's human-environment tradition to examine environmental, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of sustainability and sustainable development. Examinations into foundations and theories behind the concept of sustainable developmen... |