COURSE SCHEDULES
Fall Courses: UNDERGRADUATE (PDF), GRADUATE (PDF)
Winter Courses: UNDERGRADUATE (PDF)
Spring Courses: UNDERGRADUATE (PDF), GRADUATE (PDF)
Summer Courses: UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE (PDF)
Rutgers schedule of all current courses: (WEBSITE)
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Rutgers catalog course descriptions for UNDERGRADUATE classes and GRADUATE classes in Geography
SAMPLE SYLLABI - undergraduate
*Sample syllabi are provided to give a general sense of course content and organization. Please note that course content will vary depending upon the year and instructor. Syllabi for current classes are located on Sakai.
01:450:100 Geographical Perspectives on Global Culture, Society, and Environment (3)
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01:450:101 Earth Systems (3)
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01:450:102 Transforming the Global Environment (3)
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01:450:103 Human Geography: Space, Place, and Location (3)
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01:450:111 Laboratory in Earth Systems (1)
Pre- or corequisite: 01:450:101.
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01:450:140 The Greenhouse Effect (3)
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01:450:205 World Cultural Regions (3)
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01:450:208 Maps and Map Reading (3)
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01:450:211 Conservation and Use of Natural Resources (3)
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01:450:222 Cultural Geography (3)
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01:450:240 Cities (3)
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01:450:262 Geographic Background to Current World Affairs (3)
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01:450:270,271 Topics in Geography (1.5,1.5)
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01:450:309 Economic Geography (3)
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01:450:311 Natural Hazards and Disasters (3)
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01:450:319 Quantitative Methods (3)
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01:450:320 Spatial Data Analysis (3)
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01:450:321 Geographic Information Systems (3)
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01:450:322 Remote Sensing (3)
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01:450:323 Geographic Information Systems Laboratory (1)
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01:450:330 Geographical Methods (3)
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01:450:331 New Jersey (3)
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01:450:332 Newly Independent States and Eastern Europe (3)
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01:450:334 Western Europe (3)
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01:450:335 Caribbean Borderlands (3)
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01:450:336 Latin America (3)
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01:450:337 North America (3)
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01:450:338 Africa (3)
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01:450:341 South Asia and the Middle East (3)
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01:450:342 East Asia (3)
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01:450:355 Principles of Cartography (4)
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01:450:356 Advanced Cartography (4)
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01:450:357 Spatial Data Representation and Display (3)
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01:450:361 Gender Geographies (3)
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01:450:363 Geography of Development (3)
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01:450:370 Global and Regional Climate Change (3)
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01:450:380 Medical Geography (3)
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01:450:402 Field Geography (4)
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01:450:403,404 Advanced Physical Geography (3,3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:101 or permission of instructor.
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01:450:405 Political Geography (3)
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01:450:406 Advanced Topics in Economic Geography (3)
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01:450:408 Practicum in Digital Image Processing of Remotely Sensed Data (1)
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01:450:411 Advanced Urban Geography (3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:240 or permission of instructor.
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01:450:413 Climate System and Global Climate Change (3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:101 or 11:670:202.
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01:450:417 Coastal Geomorphology (3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:101 or 01:460:101 or permission of instructor.
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01:450:419 Advanced Conservation and Use of Natural Resources (3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:211 or permission of instructor.
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01:450:421 Advanced Geographic Information Systems (3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:321 or 11:372:362.
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01:450:470 History and Theory of Geography (3)
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01:450:485,486 Internship in Geography (BA,BA)
Open only to majors.
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01:450:487,488 Cartographic Problems (3,3)
Prerequisite: Permission of chair.
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01:450:491,492 Geographic Problems (3,3)
Prerequisite: Permission of chair.
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01:450:495,496 Honors Project: Geography (BA,BA)
SAMPLE SYLLABI - graduate
16:450:501 (F) Introduction to Natural Resources Management (3)
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16:450:502 (S) Resource Management Decision Making (3)
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16:450:503 (S) Environmental Management (3)
Prerequisite: 16:450:502 or equivalent.
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16:450:504 (F) Coastal Geomorphology (3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:403 or 404 or equivalent.
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16:450:505 (F) Advanced Physical Geography (3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:403 or 404 or equivalent.
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16:450:507 (S) Applied Geomorphology (3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:403 or 404 or equivalent.
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16:450:508 (S) Environmental Problems in Developing Countries (3)
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16:450:509 (F) Human Geographical Problems of Developing Countries (3)
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16:450:510 (S) Water Resources Management (3)
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16:450:511 (S) Land-Use Systems (3)
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16:450:513 (S) Settlement Geography (3)
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16:450:514 Environment and Culture (3)
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16:450:515 (S) Population Migration and Mobility (3)
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16:450:516(S) Urban Geography (3)
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16:450:517,518 Directed Study in Geography (3,3)
Prerequisite: Permission of graduate director.
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16:450:519 (F) Problems in Political Geography (3)
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16:450:520 Women in the Urban Environment (3)
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16:450:521 Regional Hydrology and Landforms (3)
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16:450:522 Tourism Geography (3)
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16:450:523 The Climate System and Global Climate Change (3)
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16:450:525 Restructuring of Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 (3)
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16:450:526 Property Theory and Policy (3)
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16:450:530 Data Structures and Algorithms for Spatial Problems (3)
Prerequisite: 01:450:321 or 420 or 11:372:415.
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16:450:533 Geographic Information in the Visual Arts (3)
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16:450:601,602 Field and Research Methods in Geography (3,3)
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16:450:603 (F) Research Proseminar (3)
Required for graduate degrees.
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16:450:605,606 Geography Seminar (3,3)
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16:450:607 (S) Seminar in Historical Cultural Geography (3)
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16:450:612 Natural Hazards Management (3)
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16:450:613 (F) Seminar in Coastal Resources Geography (3)
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16:450:614 (F) Seminar in Medical Geography (3)
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16:450:615 (S) Seminar in Remote Sensing (3)
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16:450:616 Seminar in Technological Hazards (3)
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16:450:617 Seminar in Remote Sensing of the Biosphere (3)
Prerequisite: 16:450:615 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
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16:450:625 Seminar in Geographic Information Systems (3)
Prerequisites: 01:450:420 or 11:372:415.
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16:450:632(S) Seminar in Regional Geography (3)
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16:450:701,702 Research in Geography (BA,BA)