Courses

The Seminar in Geographical Practice engages students with the breadth of geographical research through engagement with the Geography colloquium speakers. Students analyse the seminars and readings provided by the invited speakers with respect to concepts, methodology, and geographical practice.

Explores how power and knowledge shape intertwined social and ecological relationships, drawing on theoretically-informed ethnographies and other empirical studies, with an emphasis on global south research.

Examines contemporary themes in political geography, focusing on the ways in which power and political processes are both shaped by and shape particular spaces, scales, networks, and other spatial relations. Prerequisites: graduate student standing or Instructor permission.

This course explores the geographies of inequalities in the city. The course reviews a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches that uncover the contested meaning of urban space and interrogate the nature of power in the city. Topics may include social policy, community and civil society organizations, cultural policy, governance, everyday territorialization, spatialities and spatial orders of identity, and the new geographies of the urban that have been developing since the 1970s that place urban growth and urbanization in the ‘global south’.

This course examines the political economy of capitalism from a geographical angle. Topics may include the spatial and environmental aspects of capitalism, labour organization, globalization, development, special economic zones, innovation and the digital economy.

An examination of major aspects of mineral element transport and transformation in stream environments. Topics considered include interactions between hydrology and water chemistry, impacts of human activities on water quality, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in rivers and the effects of pollution on stream organisms. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Integrated with the undergraduate course Geography 4200.03.

Offers a historical examination of the multiple, overlapping processes through which Asian identities and regions were constituted. It will also examine new directions in Asian studies in an era of intensified global flows, transnationalism, and the presence of Asian diaspora in Canada and elsewhere.

Students work individually and collectively according to a customized syllabus which is oriented towards the accumulation of necessary skills for field, lab and computing research.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. A reading course will sometimes complement the reading undertaken for the comprehensive examination, but will not in toto constitute the reading required for that examination.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. A reading course will sometimes complement the reading undertaken for the comprehensive examination, but will not in toto constitute the reading required for that examination.

An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. A reading course will sometimes complement the reading undertaken for the comprehensive examination, but will not in toto constitute the reading required for that examination.

Students work individually and collectively according to a customized syllabus which is oriented towards the accumulation of necessary skills for field, lab and computing research.