Evolution of Los Angeles and its role in the American Dream. Diversity in social/spatial organization, urban experiences, access to resources, and exposure to environmental risks. Empirical approaches to geography.
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
Diversity: This course satisfies the university's diversity requirement.
Note: Register for lecture, one discussion, lab and one section of WRIT 140 listed below (unless you have already satisfied the Writing Requirement)
Focuses on analytical and argumentative writing skills requisite to academic and professional writing. Emphasizes logical analysis of texts and other data, effective use of evidence, ethical argumentation, and stylistic and grammatical fluency. Requires concurrent enrollment with an affiliated General Education course in the Social Issues category. Students must achieve a satisfactory score on the verbal portion of the SAT, the USC Writing Examination, or credit for WRIT 120 or 121 bef
Focuses on analytical and argumentative writing skills requisite to academic and professional writing. Emphasizes logical analysis of texts and other data, effective use of evidence, ethical argumentation, and stylistic and grammatical fluency. Requires concurrent enrollment with an affiliated General Education course in the Social Issues category. Students must achieve a satisfactory score on the verbal portion of the SAT, the USC Writing Examination, or credit for WRIT 120 or 121 bef
The nature and time/space distribution of extreme geophysical or biophysical events (e.g., floods, droughts, earthquakes, epizootics), and the range of technological and social adaptations to the resulting hazard.
General Education: This course satisfies the university's general education requirement.
Relationships between environmentalism, environmental problems, and racial-ethnic minorities. Rise of environmental justice movement. Assessment of social science methods used to investigate these relationships.
Diversity: This course satisfies the university's diversity requirement.
Evaluates the causes, effects, and responses to international environmental disasters. Emphasis is on contemporary case studies in a theoretical context.
Alternative approaches to understanding the city and urban growth. Technical and political characteristics of urban environmental problems and sustainable approaches to urbanization and urban life.
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.
Introduction to evolving science, technology and applications of GIS. Laboratories provide experience with computer processing of geographic information using several GIS software and programming languages.
Introduction to research in geography, and development of skills and perspectives fundamental to conducting research in geography, including the writing of research proposals.
Restriction: Registration open to the following class level(s): Master Student, Doctoral Student
The unique characteristics and importance of spatial information as they relate to the evolving science, technology, and applications of Geographic Information Systems.
Examination of the process of geographic abstraction and modeling in relation to the different data models and spatial analysis operations available in current GIS. Recommended preparation:GEOG 581.
Design, coding, and implementation of GIS-based software and models with Java and Visual Basic .NET programming languages. Recommended preparation:GEOG 581.
Field exploration of methods and problems of data acquisition and integration using GPS/GIS data collection systems at Wrigley Marine Science Center on Santa Catalina Island.
Principles of visual perception, spatial cognition and cartographic design and their contributions to the maps, animations, virtual reality and multimedia displays produced with modern GIS. Recommended preparation:GEOG 581.
Research leading to the master's degree in cognate fields. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
A forum for in-depth investigation of specific research topics in sub-disciplines of Geography. Offerings will depend on student and faculty interests.
