Geography

Faculty: See Earth Science and Geography Department 

Programs

Major

• •  Geography Major

Correlate Sequence in Geography

• •  Geography

Courses

Geography: I. Introductory

• •  GEOG 102 - Global Geography: People, Places, and Regions
• •  GEOG 110 - Climate Action: Tales from the Front Lines
• •  GEOG 151 - The Solid Earth:  Physical Geology
• •  GEOG 153 - Fluid Earth: Oceans, Atmosphere, & the Climate System

Geography: II. Intermediate

• •  GEOG 202 - Public Policy and Human Environments
• •  GEOG 220 - Cartography: Spatial Data Visualization with GIS
• •  GEOG 221 - Soils
• •  GEOG 224 - GIS: Spatial Analysis
• •  GEOG 226 - Remote Sensing of Environmental Change
• •  GEOG 228 - Web Mapping: Advanced Approaches to Publishing
• •  GEOG 230 - Research Methods: Studying Sustainability at Vassar
• •  GEOG 231 - Geomorphology: Surface Processes and Evolution of Landforms
• •  GEOG 234 - Race, Space and Nature
• •  GEOG 238 - Environmental China: Nature, Culture, and Development
• •  GEOG 242 - Brazil and Amazonia at Risk
• •  GEOG 246 - The U.S.-Mexico Border: Nation-State and Nature
• •  GEOG 248 - Housing Crises and Activism
• •  GEOG 250 - Urban Geography: Space, Place, Environment
• •  GEOG 252 - Cities of the Global South: Urbanization and Social Change in the Developing World
• •  GEOG 254 - Environmental Science in the Field
• •  GEOG 258 - Sustainable Landscapes: Bridging Place and Environment in Poughkeepsie
• •  GEOG 260 - Issues in Environmental Studies
• •  GEOG 262 - Mapping Climate Change and its Impacts
• •  GEOG 264 - Population, Environment, and Sustainable Development
• •  GEOG 268 - Indigenous Legal Traditions and Governance
• •  GEOG 272 - Geographies of Mass Violence
• •  GEOG 274 - The Political Geography of Human Rights
• •  GEOG 276 - Economic Geography: Spaces of Global Capitalism
• •  GEOG 278 - American Landscapes: History, Politics, & Built Environments
• •  GEOG 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• •  GEOG 298 - Independent Work

Geography: III. Advanced

• •  GEOG 300 - Senior Thesis
• •  GEOG 303 - Advanced Debates in Urban Studies
• •  GEOG 304 - Senior Seminar: Issues in Geographic Theory and Method
• •  GEOG 322 - The Metabolic City: Resources, Flows and Networks
• •  GEOG 340 - Advanced Urban and Regional Studies
• •  GEOG 342 - Social Movements
• •  GEOG 356 - Environment and Land-Use Planning
• •  GEOG 360 - Reckoning with Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Displacement
• •  GEOG 372 - Topics in Human Geography
• •  GEOG 374 - Geographies of Extractive Capitalism
• •  GEOG 399 - Senior Independent Work

German: II. Intermediate

• •  GEOG 236 - Planning History and Thought