Faculty: See Earth Science and Geography Department 

Programs

• Geography Major

To complete a correlate sequence in geography, the student must take at least six courses (including an introductory course and at least one 300-level seminar) that, together, concentrate on a broad unifying theme-such as one of the two examples detailed below. As an alternative to these two possible routes, a student may decide on another focus in consultation with geography faculty. One of the six courses may be drawn from another department or study abroad, if approved by the geography correlate adviser.

• Environmental Land-Use Analysis
• Society and Space

Courses

• GEOG 102 - Global Geography: People, Places, and Regions
• GEOG 110 - Climate Action: Tales from the Front Lines
• GEOG 111 - Science and Justice in the Anthropocene
• GEOG 151 - The Solid Earth:  Physical Geology
• GEOG 153 - The Fluid Earth: Oceans, Atmosphere, and the Climate System

• 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
• 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 232 - Pathways for Sustainability
• GEOG 234 - Race, Space and Nature
• GEOG 235 - Water
• GEOG 238 - Environmental China: Nature, Culture, and Development
• GEOG 242 - Brazil in Crisis: Continuity and Change in Portuguese America
• 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 256 - Geographies of Food and Farming
• GEOG 258 - Sustainable Landscapes: Bridging Place and Environment in Poughkeepsie
• GEOG 260 - Conservation of Natural Resources
• GEOG 262 - Mapping Climate Change and its Impacts
• GEOG 266 - Population, Environment, and Sustainable Development
• GEOG 272 - Geographies of Mass Violence
• GEOG 274 - The Political Geography of Human Rights
• GEOG 276 - Economic Geography: Spaces of Global Capitalism
• GEOG 282 - American Landscapes: History, Politics, & Built Environments
• GEOG 284 - Global Africa
• GEOG 286 - A People’s Geography of the Hudson Valley.
• GEOG 288 - Planning History and Thought
• GEOG 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• GEOG 297 - Readings in Geography
• GEOG 298 - Independent Work

• GEOG 300 - Senior Thesis
• GEOG 303 - Advanced Debates in Urban Studies
• GEOG 304 - Senior Seminar: Issues in Geographic Theory and Method
• GEOG 340 - Advanced Urban and Regional Studies
• GEOG 356 - Environment and Land-Use Planning
• GEOG 372 - Topics in Human Geography
• GEOG 374 - Geographies of Extractive Capitalism
• GEOG 386 - Global Environmental Activism: Political Ecology, Liberation and Citizenship
• GEOG 399 - Senior Independent Work