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How and why are geographical patterns of employment, production and consumption unstable in the contemporary world? What are the consequences of NAFTA, an expanded European Community, and post-colonial migration flows? How is global restructuring culturally reworked locally and nationally?

promotes understanding of the Geographic Information Science and Technology enterprise (GIS&T, also known as "geospatial"): Data and Information, Scales and Transformations, Census Data and Thematic Maps, Topology and Geocoding, Land Surveying and GPS, National Spatial Data Infrastructure, Remotely Sensed Image Data, Integrating Geographic Data

general study of distribution and interrelationships of earth's physical elements including atmosphere, climate, water, storms, landforms fluvial processes, deserts, glaciation, waves and coastal processes, distribution of terrestrial flora and fauna: course handouts & downloads

spatial interpolation, error and uncertainty, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and Multi-objective decision making: spatial data sets

• Urban Studies: Cities - interdisciplinary introduction to urban processes, key questions
  about cities and suburbs from vantage point of different fields, variations in method, history, philosophy, style, history of urbanization, social relations and ideals of community, urban facets of migration and immigration, identity, social inequality, political power, role of space and place: Bibliography, Discussion Guide & Readings, Term Paper Guidelines

• Introduction to Economic Geography - introduction to economic geographical processes found both on the ground and in the abstract as various kinds of conceptual models and theories

• California Geography - principal natural, economic, political and cultural characteristics of the various sub-regions, special attention to principles governing location and distribution of these phenomena

• Cultural Geography - investigates human landscape and its relationship to physical environment, principles governing location and distribution of various cultural phenomena such as language, religion, agriculture, industry & urbanization
• Physical Geography - area distribution of various features of the physical environment as they relate to man's occupance of earth's surface, explain these relationships through fields of geology, meteorology, climatology, cartography, hydrology, geomorphology, and pedology

overview of interactive processes resulting in the mosaic of environments on the earth & controls on distribution of ecosystems, Environmental change explored on variety of time and spatial scales so as to enhance capability to distinguished between natural and human-induced climatic, biotic and physical changes: final exam review, Websites of Interest

examines the patterns, causes, and consequences of poverty and economic inequality in the world today, as well as the institutional responses and potential solutions that collectively fall under the rubric of development: midterm review, final review and short answer topics sheet