2001-2002
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Geography Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.First-Year Seminar in Geography 01.109
Maps and Mapping
An examination of our spatial perspective of the world; the evolution of cartography and mapping. Field mapping techniques, data acquisition and map production principles; the interface with geographic information processing fields. Limited enrolment.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Seminars three hours a week.
First-Year Seminar in Geography 01.110
It's Your Environment
The causes and consequences of environmental change; emphasis on the interactions of nature and human behaviour. Ways in which the environment can be protected and restored. Environmental issues that affect our own communities. Limited enrolment.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Seminars three hours a week.
First-Year Seminar in Geography 01.111
Location is Everything
Where we live affects who we are; the role of geographic location and environment on human perception, behaviour, and well-being, viewed at scales ranging from local to global; methods of collecting and interpreting information about location. Limited enrolment.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Seminars three hours a week.
Geography 45.101
Geography and the Environment
Human activity and the physical environment and links between them. Social, economic, cultural, and political forces shaping human activity at scales ranging from local to global. Methods of collecting and interpreting geographic information.
Lectures two hours a week and workshops/discussions one hour a week.
Geography 45.102*
World Issues I: Environment, Resources and Society
Global and regional issues through study of: geographic and environmental traditions; world views; ecosystem structure and function; biodiversity; atmosphere, climate and greenhouse effect; population and demography; food and nutrition; water; soil; agriculture; renewable and non-renewable resources; waste; environmental degradation; sustainability; environmental management and development.
Lectures two hours a week, discussions one hour a week.
Geography 45.103*
World Issues II: Territory, Culture, and Political Space
Contemporary global and regional issues in which elements of political and cultural geography are central; reference to the local region, Canada, and topical overseas examples; focus on nation-state integration and fragmentation.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.105
Introduction to Geoscience
Earth's physical environment; processes operating within the Earth and at its surface: the hydrologic cycle, oceans, earth structure, tectonics, rocks, minerals, history of life on the earth, climatic change, soils, landforms and resources. (Also listed as Geology 67.105.)
Precludes additional credit for Geology 67.100, 67.106*, 67.107*, 67.108*, and Geography 45.110*.
Lecture three hours a week, laboratory three hours a week, and a field excursion.
Geography 45.110*
The Physical Environment
A survey of the form and processes operating in the Earth-atmosphere system. Earth structure and tectonics; weather, climate, and climate change; soils and landform development; the hydrologic cycle.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.105 (67.105), 45.210*, Geology 67.106* and 67.108*.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours a week, and a field excursion.
Geography 45.205*
Geographic Research
Nature of primary and secondary sources of geographic data; research questions, processes and ethics; maps and mapping; quantitative and qualitative approaches such as surveys, interviews, participant observation, case studies; information summary and presentation in textual, statistical, graphic, and cartographic form.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.204.
Prerequisite: 1.0 credit in Geography at the 100-level and Second-year standing, or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.
Geography 45.206*
Geographic Statistics
Probability; sampling design; estimation; inferential statistics; spatial and temporal statistics.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.204, Mathematics 69.257*, 69.266*, Economics 43.220, Psychology 49.200, Political Science 47.270.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.205* or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.
Geography 45.207*
An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Data in a spatial context; spatial data structures, georeferencing, data query; mapping; creating spatial databases; selected topics in GIS application to environmental, land-use planning and market analysis issues.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.204, or 45.206* (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the Department. Familiarity with personal computers is assumed.
Workshop three hours a week.
Geography 45.211*
Environmental Geography
Biophysical elements of the environment; human-environment interactions; natural hazards; human response to environmental change and variation; land-use planning and risk management.
Prerequisite: 1.0 credit in Geography at the 100-level, or Second-year standing.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.
Geography 45.212*
Physical Environments of Canada
The physiography, climates, biogeography, soils, and landforms of Canada.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.110* or Geography 45.105/Geology 67.105.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.
Geography 45.220*
Global Change: Economy, Culture, and Environment
Economic and cultural globalisation, global environmental change, and the linkages between them. Global-local interactions. Economic and environmental sustainability. Natural resources and industrial systems in the global economy. Culture, politics, and the global environment.
Prerequisite: 1.0 credit in Geography at the 100-level, or Second-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.230*
Culture, Society and Space
Ways in which individuals and societies create, modify, and interact with environments; social dimensions of landscapes; the culture and politics of space; geographies of identity.
Prerequisite: 1.0 credit in Geography at the 100-level (Geography 45.101 is recommended), or Second-year standing.
Lectures two hours a week, discussion one hour a week.
Geography 45.255*
Canada: Contemporary Geographic Issues
Analysis and interpretation of Canada, its regions and localities, using a range of geographical concepts; interactions among society, the economy and the environment, and related policy issues.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.305* (taken before 1998-99) and 45.355*.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week, discussion one hour a week.
Geography 45.300*
Honours Field Course and Tutorial
Geographical techniques of field observation, measurement, recording, and analysis involving work in groups, normally in the Ottawa region. Development of research, writing, and thinking
skills in a tutorial setting. A supplementary charge may apply.
Prerequisite: Third-year Honours standing in Geography, or permission of the Department.
A four-day field camp, tutorial one hour a week.
Geography 45.301*
Social Geography Methods
Methods of acquiring, analyzing and presenting primary information relating to contemporary issues in social geography; technical and ethical aspects of such topics as: mental mapping, sampling and questionnaire design, participant observation and interviewing, discourse analysis, and qualitative research methods.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.204 or 45.205* .
Lectures two hours a week, discussion group one hour a week.
Geography 45.302*
Air Photo Interpretation and Remote Sensing
Aerial photography and digital remote sensing; visual interpretation of surface landforms and materials; introduction to digital image processing and analysis.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing, or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.
Geography 45.303*
Quantitative Geography
Multivariate quantitative methods, such as multiple correlation and regression, factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, and analysis of variance as applied to classification, regionalization, explanation and hypothesis testing in geographical research.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.204 or 45.206*, or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.
Geography 45.305*
Geospatial Analysis
Acquisition, manipulation, and display of spatially referenced information using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Spatial modeling, site selection, and routing analysis in raster and vector GIS.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.304.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.207*
Workshop three hours a week.
Geography 45.306*
Applications of Geographic Information Systems
Project design and customization, digital atlas compilation and geomatics education.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.304.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.305*
Workshop three hours a week.
Geography 45.307*
Cartographic Theory and Design
Principles of cartography, cartographic communication and map design; practical work designed to provide experience in solving problems of cartographic representation.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.324* and 45.325.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.204 or 45.205*, and Third-year standing, or permission of the Department.
Lectures and laboratory three and a half hours a week.
Geography 45.311*
Biophysical Resource Assessment
The acquisition and interpretation of biophysical information, with regard to defining limitations on the use of the environment; field and laboratory techniques with an emphasis on the biophysical resources of a local area. A supplementary charge may apply
Prerequisite: One of Geography 45.105/Geology 67.105, 45.210*, 45.211* or permission of the Department.
Lectures, laboratory and fieldwork five hours a week.
Geography 45.312*
Geomorphology
Geomorphological agents of landscape change at the Earth's surface, emphasizing the role of water, ice and wind in erosion and deposition; use of geomorphic indicators in studies of environmental change.
Prerequisites: Geography 45.105/Geology 67.105, or Geography 45.210* and Third-year standing, or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week, one field excursion.
Geography 45.313*
Watershed Hydrology
Principles of hydrology at local and watershed scales, with an emphasis on: soil moisture regimes; field data collection and analysis of surface water or snow and ice conditions; hydrologic processes in cold environments; and regional runoff regimes in Canada. A supplementary charge may apply.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.210* or 45.211*.
Note: First-year mathematics and physics are recommended.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory three hours a week, two field excursions, including a two-day excursion. Students are responsible for long-distance transportation, food and lodging costs associated with the field excursions.
Geography 45.315*
Climate and Atmospheric Change
The global climate system, with emphasis on global change variability over the historical and modern periods; the changing composition of the atmosphere and its impact on climate; analysis and interpretation of climatic and atmospheric data; modelling of climate systems.
Prerequisites: Geography 45.206* or 45.204, and 45.210*; or permission of the Department.
Lecture two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.
Geography 45.318*
Soil Properties
The physical and chemical properties of soils; soil-water relationships, weathering processes, soil mineralogy, cation exchange, soil pH. A plant-oriented perspective predominates.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.308.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.105, or 45.210*, or permission of the Department.
Lectures and laboratory five hours a week.
Geography 45.319*
Soils and Environment
The formation and development of soils, soil classification, soil fertility, soils and environmental concerns, land degradation.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.308.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.318* or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.320*
The Canadian City: Environment, Structure and Contemporary Problems
Internal structure of the Western city with specific application to Canadian cities; current urban problems with particular focus on inner city revitalization, peripheral expansion, metropolitan organization and transportation systems and their interaction with land use.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.220* or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.326*
Health, Environment, and Society
Factors influencing human health in an ecological framework involving population structure, habitat, and behaviour. Changes in the distribution of communicable and degenerative diseases are portrayed as being related to historical and contemporary development and globalisation processes. Sources, types and characteristics of geographically referenced health information.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.426*.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.329*
Sustainability and Environment in the South
A political ecology approach to the concept of sustainability in the South; case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to analyze the relationship between people and the environment at scales ranging from the intra-household and local to the international.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing and Geography 45.220* or 45.230* or 45.231*; or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week, discussion groups one hour a week.
Geography 45.330*
Environment and Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Historical analysis of contemporary problems faced by selected states in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on environmental sustainability in the context of political, social and economic change, at scales from the intra-household and local to national.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.335
The Development of Canada: The Historical Geographical Perspective
Canada from pre-history to the present; issues of culture and economy in a geographical context; methodology in historical geography.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.230* or History 24.233 or 24.234; or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.336*
Resource Analysis in Geography
Human dimensions of resource assessment, use and management; topics relating to resource allocation theory and methods, carrying capacity, environmental and social impact assessment, public participation and resources policies; emphasis on Canadian case studies.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.333* and 45.334*.
Prerequisite: At least Third-year standing in Geography or Environmental Studies or Environmental Science, or permission of the Department.
Lectures and laboratory three hours a week.
Geography 45.337*
Contemporary Geopolitics
Geographical understandings of power and conflict at the global scale; geographical discourses of peace and violence in the contemporary world system, critical perspectives on the world political map, geographical patterns of inequity and global order.
Prerequisites: Third-year standing
Lecture three hours a week.
Geography 45.344*
Economic Geography
Geography of production, marketing, and consumption. Locational decision making in the private and public sectors with particular reference to manufacturing and service industries.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.220* or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.351*
Northern Lands
The physical characteristics, historical geography, economic resources, settlement patterns and problems and the future development of Arctic and Subarctic lands, focusing primarily on Canada.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.360*
The Soviet Union and Successor States: A Geographic Survey
A general review of the physical, social and economic geography of the Soviet Union and successor states, with detailed analyses of selected topics related to social and population conditions, resources development and environmental problems, including comparisons with North America.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing.
Offered in alternate years to Geography 45.361*.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.362*
Geography of Southern Africa
Broad geographical coverage of the subcontinent from Zambia southwards with particular reference to the environmental, historical, economic, cultural and political dimensions necessary to understand the contemporary context of and around South Africa.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.395* (if taken in 1990-1994).
Prerequisite: Third-year standing or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.363*
Geography of Europe
Systematic geographic survey of Europe with particular reference to historical, cultural, economic, political, resource, and environmental dimensions.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.370*
Population Geography
The distributional aspects of population attributes; areal patterns of population characteristics and their spatial variations associated with differences in the nature of places; migratory movements within the framework of spatial models of interactions between locations.
Prerequisite: Either Geography 45.220* or 45.230* or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.390*
Geographic Thought and Methodology
Debate about the nature of geography and what geographers do; frameworks for understanding the discipline; debates within physical, environmental, and human geography and the connections among them.
Prerequisite: Third-year Honours Geography standing.
Lectures two hours a week, discussion one hour a week.
Geography 45.395*
Selected World Regional Problems
Geographical analysis of topical problem areas in the world community.
Prerequisite: Third-year standing or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
o 400-level courses are normally restricted to students with Fourth-year Honours standing. However, a student with Third-year standing may take 400-level courses provided the student has the necessary prerequisites, a Geography GPA of 6.5 or better, and permission of the Department.
Geography 45.400*
Field Studies
Field observation and methodology in a selected region; individual or group basis.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department.
Hours to be arranged.Geography 45.403*
Remote Sensing of the Environment
Primary optical and radar remote sensing systems; advanced image enhancement, land cover classification and modelling; applications in resources, environment, and urban mapping.Prerequisites: Geography 45.302* and Honours standing; or permission of the Department.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.Geography 45.404*
Environmental Impact Assessment
Principles, scope and purpose of environmental impact assessment, from conceptual and methodological points of view; range of environmental issues with an emphasis on primarily Canadian case studies.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year Honours standing in Geography or Environmental Studies or Environmental Science, or permission of the Department.
Note: Geography 45.311* or 45.336* is recommended.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Geography 45.405*
Directed Studies in Geography
Students pursue their interest in a selected theme in geography on a tutorial basis with a member of the Department.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.401* and 45.402*.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year Honours standing in Geography and permission of the Department.
Geography 45.406*
Analytical and Computer Cartography
Theoretical and practical approaches to analytical and computer cartography, with an emphasis on digital mapping algorithms using microcomputers
Prerequisites: Geography 45.307* (or equivalent), and Fourth-year Honours standing; or permission of the Department. Basic mathematical skills (linear algebra, geometry, and trigonometry) and knowledge of data processing are assumed.
Lectures and laboratory three hours a week.
Geography 45.408*
Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems
Advanced methods and techniques in GIS applications including: positional and attribute error analysis, multiple criteria decision making, interpolation, elevation modelling and ortho-imaging, and spatial pattern measurement.
Prerequisites: Geography 45.305* and 45.306*and Honours standing in Geography.
Lectures two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.
Geography 45.411*
Quaternary Geography
Changes in the physical environment of the earth during the last two million years; methods of studying recent earth history; the last ice age in Canada. (Also listed as Geology 67.415*.)
Prerequisites: Geography 45.315* or permission of the Department.
Note: Geography 45.312* and Geology 67.332* are recommended.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.413*
Water Resources Engineering
A quantitative analysis of natural water systems and the development of these systems as a resource. Components of the hydrologic cycle. Quantitative analysis of stream flow. Probability concepts in water resources. Reservoir design and operation. Availability of groundwater. Storm water management. (Also listed as Engineering 81.303*)
Prerequisites: Engineering 82.328* and 86.230*, or permission of the department.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis one hour a week.
Geography 45.414*
Microclimatology
The formation of microclimates near the Earth's surface; energy and water flows; the interaction of atmospheric processes with the physical properties of surfaces.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.315* or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.417*
Geotechnical Mechanics
Soil composition and soil classification. Soil properties, compaction, seepage and permeability. Concepts of pore water pressure, capillary pressure and hydraulic head. Principle of effective stress, stress-deformation and strength characteristics of soils, consolidation, stress distribution with soils, and settlement. Laboratory testing. (Also listed as Engineering 82.328*, Geology 67.417*.)
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.424*.
Prerequisites: Geology 67.244* or equivalent and Third-year registration, or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours alternate weeks.
Geography 45.418*
Permafrost
Distribution, development, and degradation of permafrost in Canada; thermal and hydrologic regime of permafrost terrain; development of landforms in permafrost regions; geotechnical consideration in northern construction.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.318* or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week.
Geography 45.423*
Urban Revitalization
Recent revitalization of inner cities from an internationally comparative perspective; residential, commercial and institutional dimensions of revitalization, with particular reference to waterfronts and to heritage conservation issues.
Prerequisites: Geography 45.320* and Fourth-year Honours Geography standing, or permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week; optional residential field week.
Geography 45.427*
Urban Development and Analysis
The relationship between changes in urban development and geographic theory, emphasizing contemporary critical perspectives on selected urban issues.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year Honours Geography standing or permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
Geography 45.428*
Geographical Analysis of Health Information
Integration of theory and application through (1) extensive, quantitative methods of analysing geographical data on disease and (2) intensive, qualitative methods of producing primary information on health, space, and place.
Prerequisites: Geography 45.301* (or Sociology 53.203/Anthropology 54.203), 45.303*, and 45.326*, and Fourth-Year Honours standing in Geography or Environmental Studies, or permission of the Department.
Lecture two hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.
Geography 45.430*
Comparative Environmental Movements
The emergence of contemporary, locally-based, environmental movements in Canada, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Case studies to analyze local environmental action in relation to the broader political economy and long term sustainability of land use.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year Honours standing and 45.329* or 45.330* or permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
Geography 45.431*
Advanced Cultural Geography
Cross-cultural thematic examination of territorial organization, territoriality, mental maps, geographies of the mind, and landscape impact of authority and ideology. Regional emphasis on Canada.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.230* or permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
Geography 45.433*
Urban Planning
A systematic approach to urban planning; urban sprawl; data collection; forecasting; standards; space requirements; land use; zoning; transportation; land development; site selection; land capability; layout; evaluation; housing; urban renewal and new towns. (Also listed as Engineering 82.433*.)
Prerequisite: Third-year registration, or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.
Geography 45.434*
Transportation Engineering and Planning
Transportation and the socio-economic environment; modal and intermodal systems and components; vehicle motion; human factors, system and facility design; traffic flow; capacity analysis; planning methodology; environmental impacts; evaluation methods. (Also listed as Engineering 82.334*.)
Prerequisite: Third-year registration, or permission of the Department.
Lectures three hours a week, problem analysis three hours alternate weeks.
Geography 45.435*
Historical Geography
The relation of geography and history, the use of field techniques, primary documents, model building and statistical methods in historical geography. Emphasis on Ontario and local studies. Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as Geography 45.545, for which additional credit is precluded.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.335 or permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
Geography 45.440*
Environmental Geopolitics
Environment and conflict in geopolitical perspective, ecological change and security policies of the industrial world, the geography of environmental threats, the political consequences and world order implications of environmental degradation and environmental refugees.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year Honours standing and two of Geography 45.211*, 45.220*, 45.337*, or permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
Geography 45.441*
Geographies of Globalization
Theories of globalization in geographic perspective; local consequences of global processes, interconnections and patterns of social, economic, environmental, political and cultural change.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year Honours standing, or permission of the Department.
Seminar three hours a week.
Geography 45.443*
Issues in Applied Economic Geography
Selected topics drawn from a variety of areas of concern, such as marketing, trade, investment, manufacturing, the high technology sector, and services.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.344* or permission of the Department.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Geography 45.445*
Rural Land Use Analysis
Rural land use issues from physical and socio-economic perspectives, contemporary methods for rural land use evaluation; rural land use policies.
Prerequisite: Geography 45.336* and Fourth-year Honours standing, or permission of the Department.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Geography 45.446*
Practicum in Geography I
Experience in an employment environment through field placement. Observation and involvement in issues and research methods used by professional geographers.
May be taken for credit in addition to Geography 45.448*.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year Honours standing in Geography and permission of the Department.
Field placement one day a week.
Geography 45.447*
Canadian Agriculture
Trends in farm organization and production; issues arising from farming's relationships to the physical resource base, land market pressures, government policies and regulations, and agribusiness and marketing organizations.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.443* (if taken in 1994-95).
Prerequisites: Geography 45.255* or 45.336* and Fourth-year Honours standing, or permission of the Department.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Geography 45.448*
Practicum in Geography II
Experience in an employment environment through field placement. Observation and involvement in issues and research methods used by professional geographers. May be taken for credit in addition to Geography 45.446*.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year Honours standing in Geography and permission of the Department.
Field placement of one day a week.
Geography 45.460*
The Changing Geography of Post-Communist Societies
Geographical dimensions of political and economic transition in the post-communist societies of Eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R. Topics may include environmental degradation, resource management, population, quality of life, industrial restructuring and regional development, urban and rural changes, energy, transportation, and foreign trade.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year Honours standing, Geography 45.360* or 45.361*, or permission of the Department.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.
Geography 45.494
Honours Research Workshop and Tutorial
Advanced training in research design, data collection and analysis, report writing and oral presentations in workshop and tutorial settings; undertaking of an individual research project and preparation of a major report on a selected topic normally on the National Capital Region.
Precludes additional credit for Geography 45.491* 45.492*, 45.498, and 45.499.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year Honours standing in Geography.
Workshop/seminar/tutorial three hours per week.
Geography 45.496
Honours Research Project
Candidates for B.Sc. with Honours in Geography undertake a research project based on a laboratory or field problem. The project is supervised by a member of the department and a written report must be submitted. The candidate may be examined orally on the report.
Prerequisite: Fourth-year Honours standing in Geography.
Hours to be arranged.
Geography 45.499
Honours Research Essay
A student in the Fourth year of B.A. (Honours) or Combined B.A. (Honours) in Geography may write an Honours essay or equivalent. The essay counts as the equivalent of 1.0 credit. Students work under an individual faculty adviser. The subject for research is decided upon in consultation with the supervisor.
Prerequisites: Fourth-year Honours standing in Geography, a Geography GPA of 8.0 or better, an approved research topic, and permission of the Honours supervisor.
Hours to be arranged with faculty adviser.
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