Systematic Human Geography

GEOG-2401(3) AGRICULTURAL GEOGRAPHY (Le3) A study of agriculture from the viewpoint of physical and cultural environments, systems of exploitation, regional analysis, and a survey of the world's major agricultural activities.

GEOG-2407(3) RECREATION GEOGRAPHY (Le3) Expanded leisure time has led to increased demands on recreational space from the level of the city park and playground to the use and abuse of wilderness areas. This course discusses the concept of competing and multifacial recreational space use. Emphasis is put upon topical questions. 
Prerequisite: GEOG-1102(3) or GEOG-1103(3) or permission of instructor.

GEOG-2408(3) ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOUR (Le3) This course will focus on varied themes and topics relating to perceptions of physical and social environments. Variations in the perception, images, and attitudes held by individuals and groups within different societies will be examined and related to varied behavioral responses within a spatial and environmental context. Topics of interest in this course are (1) perception of natural hazards (floods, droughts, frosts, hail, etc.); (2) perception of natural resources and the management of natural resources; (3) images of urban neighbourhoods, cities, metropolitan regions, provinces, countries, the world; (4) mental maps; (5) attitudes towards resource development and the implications for local, regional, and national planning. 
Prerequisite: GEOG-1102(3) or permission of instructor.

GEOG-2411(3) GEOGRAPHY OF GLOBALIZATION (Le3) This course engages the topic of globalization from a specifically geographical perspective. In today's world, a small minority of people lead relatively affluent lives. For the majority, however, life as a constant struggle for survival. At the same time, the statement that we live in one world has probably never been truer. The struggle of the many is related very strongly to the comfort of the few. This course will examine the impact of globalization on different types of economies and the political, social, cultural, and environmental change that people experience in an interconnected "one world".
Prerequisites: GEOG-1103(3) or permission of instructor.

GEOG-2412(3) A GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON TOURISM (Le3) Tourism is the world's most rapidly growing industry. It is now essential to the Canadian economy, and is the mainstay of many other national economies. This course provides a broad overview of the world tourism industry that includes a geo-historical perspective on the origins, evolution, and growth of tourism, the structure of the toursim industry, tourism market segments, destinations and demands, and the impacts of tourism on both tourists themselves and their host communities. Concepts of capacity and sustainable tourism are addressed. Some attention is given to local, regional, and Canadian development strategies and special topics in tourism. 
Prerequisites: GEOG-1102(3) or GEOG-1103(3) or permission of instructor.

GEOG-2414(3) THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT (Le3) Cities are artificial environments. They absorb vast quantities of resources from surrounding areas and create great volumes of waste. They can also have a tremendous effect on their surrounding hinterland. Their "ecological footprint" is significant. This course examines the structure and activities of cities and the resulting effects on the environment. Approaches to developing more sustainable and environmentally sensitive cities are discussed. 
Prerequisites: GEOG-1103(3) or GEOG-2415(3) or permission of instructor.

GEOG-2415(3) A INTRODUCTION TO URBAN DEVELOPMENT (Le3) This course will examine the origins and evolution of cities, urban design, morphologic and townscape elements, and the economy and structure of urban systems.

GEOG-2416(3) SEX, GENDER, SPACE AND PLACE (Le3) This course examines, from interdisciplinary perspectives, relationships among sex, gender, space and place in social-ecological systems. It specifically examines how sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and other aspects of identity affect the transformation of space into place in social-ecological systems. Drawing on perspectives from environmental studies, geography and women's studies, selected relevant topics considered may include environmental justice, ecofeminism, the cultural politics and political geography of sex and sexual identities, the gendering and sexing of city landscapes, architecture and natural areas, notions of public and private space, and the space/place in the socio-cultural construction of femininities and masculinities.
Cross-listed: ENV-2416(3) and WGS-2416(3). 
Prerequisite: GEOG-1102(3) and GEOG-1103(3), or ENV-1600(3), WGS-1232(6) or permission of instructor.
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this curse and ENV-2416 I WGS-2416.

GEOG-2417(3) AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (Le3) This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic principles of economic geography. The course is divided into two main topic areas. The first is an introduction to location theory, and the second introduces regional economic development. In essence, location theory attempts to determine why economic activities are located where they are or why they should be located in one place as opposed to another. It looks at all types of economic activity, including agriculture, manufacturing, and retail. The second topic, examining economic develoment and trade, seeks o explain why some regions prosper while others do not.It also examines strategies thatwill enable aregion to enhance its economic development potential and explains patterns of trade. 
Prerequisite: GEOG-1103(3) or permission of instructor. 
Restrictions: Students may not receive credit for both GEOG-2417(3) and the former GEOG-2409(6).

GEOG-2419(3) RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND THE CANADIAN ENVIRONMENT (Le3) This course examines the changing dynamics of natural resource development. In discussing different resources, including energy, extrative and consumptive industries, the course contrasts historic and modern approaches to development. Particular attention is given to the environmental consequences of primary resource production, as well as the role that these industries play in modern Canadian society.
Prerequisites: GEOG-1102 or ENV-1600 or permission of the instructor. 
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GEOG-2409.

GEOG-2431(3) POPULATION GEOGRAPHY (Le3) This course examines the history of the growth of the world's population and the present-day crises inherent in both the numbers and distribution of the global totals. Special attention is paid to the problems of defining such terms as "over-population", and to the lack of correlation between population, resources, and technology. 
Prerequisite: GEOG-1103(3) or permission of instructor.
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GEOG-3401.

GEOG-3402(3) URBANIZATION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD (Le3) The process of urbanization is now a developing, as opposed to a developed, world phenomenon. This course will explore the factors promoting urbanization in the developing world and discuss models of third world cities. The emphasis will be on problems facing the cities and the solutions that have been attempted. Specific topics will include urban growth and management, urban services, squatter settlements, the housing market, survival tactics of the urban poor, urban government, and the function of the city in the developing world.
Prerequisites: GEOG-1103(3) or GEOG-2415(3) or permisssion of instructor.

GEOG-3408(3) WATER RESOURCES (Le3) The following are just some of the topics developed: the Columbia River Treaty, the Churchill Diversion, is Canada's water for sale? In predicting future Canadian needs for water, the relative merits of direct and indirect methods of forecasting are assessed. Analytical techniques such as economic base, input-output, and cost-benefit are fully developed. 
Prerequisites: GEOG-1102(3) or permission of instructor.

GEOG-3411(3) HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND TOURISM (Le3) Tourism is the world's largest growth industry, with cultural tourism being its most rapidly growing sector. Cultural tourism is highly dependent on the development, interpretation, and marketing of a region's heritage resources (i.e., its folk arts, historic sites, architecture and rural and urban landscapes). This course examines the nature of heritage resources and reviews the processes of their identification and the strategies for their development. Preservation, interpretation and management techniques and their relationship to the needs of the tourist industry will be discussed. The emphasis of the course will be on the problems of heritage resource development in North America, particularily in western Canada. 
Prerequisites: GEOG-1102(3) and GEOG-1103(3), permission of instructor.

GEOG-3413(3) URBAN REVITALIZTION: REBUILDING OF DECAYING CITIES (Le3) Issues surrounding growth and development have been replaced by concerns about decline and revitalization in many North American and European cities. This course will focus on urban decline and revitalization efforts. Theories of decline and the demographic, economic, and physical changes that occur in declining city neighbourhoods will be discussed. The course will then explore revitalization efforts, drawing extensively on case study material from selected cities as well as field and project work within Winnipeg. Broad approaches to revitalization, revitalizing the commercial sector, attracting people back to the inner city, leadership and the role of partnerhips, rejuvenating older, greying suburban neighbourhoods, and planning for long term sustainability will be among the topics discussed.
Prerequisites: GEOG-2415(3) or permission of instructor.

GEOG-3415(3) CONTESTED SPACES: A GEOGRAPHY OF PLACE (Le3) The "new cultural geography" stresses the relationship between space and culture, examining culture as it is constituted through space and as place. The course explores the struggles that make cultures and how they are worked out in particular spaces and places (i.e. landscapes). It also discusses spatial aspects of ideologies of race, the role of language and discourse in defining cultural spaces, the development and maintenance of subcultures, immigration as sources of tensions in the contemporary world, issues of gender, and the ways in which landscapes and places carry the physical and symbolic imprints of cultural wars.
Prerequisites: GEOG-1102(3) or GEOG-1103(3) or permission of instructor.

GEOG-3430(3) HOUSING AND NEIGHBOURHOOD (S3) This course examines the complexity of shelter environments within the urban landscape. The focus is on the North American housing market, the history of housing, and the way in which traditional and non-traditional markets are defined and understood. The unique characteristics of the modern city are examined as they are manifested in homelessness, marginal housing forms, shelter-induced poverty, suburban decline, and inner-city issues. Emphasis is also placed on current/historical policy and program responses to housing-related issues at the neighbourhood, municipal, provincial, and federal level.
Cross-listed: UIC-3430(3) 
Prerequisites: GEOG-1102(3) or UIC-1001(3). 
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and UIC-3430.

GEOG-3431(3) HEALTH GEOGRAPHY (Le3) This course is an introduction to the sub-discipline of health geography designed to explore how the geographical focus on place contributes to a better understanding of health and well being. The course is structured to examine both ecological perspectives of the relationship between humans and disease, as well as how the social, built, and natural contexts of the environment in which we live have profound effects on health and health care. Concepts within health geography will be synthesized to consider its potential as an approach for health-related research. Additionally, the use of geographic techniques and tools are explored including mapping, spatial analysis and qualitative inquiry.
Prerequisites: GEOG-2431(3) or permission of the instructor.
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GEOG-2418.

GEOG-3432(3) URBAN AND COMMUNITY PLANNING (Le2,S1) Urban planning is a process that has importance for the quality of life of those who live in inner-city and downtown neighbourhoods. According to Friedmann, planning is an interdisciplinary field that "links knowledge to action". This course examines traditions, theories and values in planning of civil society and community. Broad approaches to planning in Canada, the USA, and Britain, and specific processes and policies in Winnipeg, provide students with background on planning systems. The emphasis in this course is on practical knowledge and skills for community organizers.
Cross-listed: UIC-3030(3) 
Prerequisites: UIC-1001 or UIC-2001 or UIC-2001(3) or GEOG-1103(3). 
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and UIC-3030.

GEOG-3443(3) ADVANCED TOURISM & RECREATION GEOGRAPHY (S3) This course is based on a selection of advanced readings on topics and problems dealing with recreational and tourism behavior, the supply and demand for different types of recreational space and tourism facilities, and issues of sustainability. A research project may be required of each student.. 
Prerequisite: GEOG-2412(3), or GEOG-3411(3), or permission of the instructor.
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GEOG 4407 I GEOG-4443.

GEOG-3445(3) POWER, KNOWLEDGE, GEOGRAPHY (S3) This course examines the power of geographical ideas in shaping social values and understandings. Seminars focus on analyzing spatial formations of various historical and contemporary topics such as colonialism, nationalism, warfare, popular culture, science, racism, surveillance, the body, genocide, the climate crisis, and fundamentalism. Students are asked to consider how 'the production of space' accompanies and influences the production of knowledge, revealing connections between geography and power.
Prerequisite: Any second year systematic human geography (GEOG-24XX) or regional geography (GEOG-25XX) or permission of the instructor. 
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GEOG 4415 I GEOG-4445.

GEOG-4403(3) URBAN LAND USE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES (S3) An investigation of the processes by which urban development occurs and a critical appraisal of resultant urban forms. Some consideration will be given to the evaluation of relevant theory and to the nature and effect of planning controls on urban form. This course alternates with GEOG-4404(3). 
Restrictions: Honours Form Required. 
Prerequisite: GEOG-2414(3), or GEOG-2415(3).

GEOG-4404(3) FIELD RESEARCH IN URBAN GEOGRAPHY (S3) This course investigates, examines and appraises the major varieties of primary and secondary materials available for the study of urban areas. Particular emphasis will be placed on the acquisition and evaluation of local material, and the course will therfore call for students to be engaged in field research. This course alternates with GEOG-4403(3). 
Restrictions: Honours Form Required. 
Prerequisite: GEOG-2414(3), or GEOG-2415(3).

GEOG-4409(3) ARCHITECTURE AND CITY PLANNING (Le3) This course explores the relationships between architecture and city form, function, and planning in the social and historical context of the 20th century. Planning theory and practice is more specialized and separated from architectural theory. Yet, architecture is an important visual and functional impact on the urban form of the city and its planning. The major architectural schools (e.g., Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, International Style) and the cultural avant-garde trends (e.g., Futurism, Surrealism, Situationism) and their relatinship to and impact on city planning are surveyed.
Restrictions: Honours Form Required. 
Prerequisites: GEOG-2414(3) or GEOG-2415(3), the former GEOG-2406(6), or permission of the instructor

GEOG-4415(3) POWER, KNOWLEDGE, GEOGRAPHY (S3) This course examines the power of geographical ideas in shaping social values and understandings. Seminars focus on analyzing spatial formations of various historical and contemporary topics such as colonialism, nationalism, warfare, popular culture, science, racism, surveillance, the body, genocide, the climate crisis, and fundamentalism. Students are asked to consider how 'the production of space' accompanies and influences the production of knowledge, revealing connections between geography and power.
Experimental Course: This course is offered on a trial basis to gauge interest in the topic. Students who successfully complete this course receive credit as indicated. 
Prerequisite: GEOG-2408 or GEOG-2416 or GEOG-3330 or GEOG-3415 or permission of the instructor. 
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GEOG 3445 I GEOG-4445.

GEOG-4441(3) ADVANCED STUDIES IN ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTION (S3) This course will consist of seminars examining selected topics relating to perceptions of physical and cultural environments. It will review and evaluate methods employed by geographers in the field of environmental perception. Whenever possible, students will be encouraged to apply these methods to local problems in natural hazards, mental mapping, and landscape aesthetics. This course will be of interest to students with an orientation to either physical or cultural geography. 
Restrictions: Honours Form Required. 
Prerequisite: GEOG-2408(3)

GEOG-4443(3) ADVANCED TOURISM & RECREATION GEOGRAPHY (S3) This course is based on a selection of advanced readings on topics and problems dealing with recreational and tourism behavior, the supply and demand for different types of recreational space and tourism facilities, and issues of sustainability. A research project may be required of each student. Additional in-depth work is required to receive credit at the 4000-level.
Prerequisite: GEOG-2412(3), or GEOG-3411(3), or permission of the instructor.
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GEOG-3443 I GEOG-4407.

GEOG-4445(3) POWER, KNOWLEDGE, GEOGRAPHY (S3) This course examines the power of geographical ideas in shaping social values and understandings. Seminars focus on analyzing spatial formations of various historical and contemporary topics such as colonialism, nationalism, warfare, popular culture, science, racism, surveillance, the body, genocide, the climate crisis, and fundamentalism. Students are asked to consider how 'the production of space' accompanies and influences the production of knowledge, revealing connections between geography and power.
Prerequisite: Any second year systematic human geography (GEOG-24XX) or regional geography (GEOG-25XX) or permission of the instructor. 
Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GEOG 3445 I GEOG-4415.

GEOG-4450(3) GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY (S3) This course considers geographic and environmental approaches to sustainable staples-based development, particularly as they apply to water, energy, and mining. Discussion begins by outlining change, complexity, uncertainty and conflicts associated with primary and derived resources, including those contributing to climate change. Important technological innovations and policy developments designed to address these challenges are contemplated. Topics include corporate social responsibility policies, public-private initiatives, community-based resource management, adaptive management, and social learning through public participation.
Crossed-listed: ENV-4450(3). 
Prerequisites: Two of GEOG-2204(3), GEOG-2212(3), GEOG-3408(3), GEOG-3508(3), ENV-2603(3), or permission of the instructor.
Restrictions: Honors Form Required. Students may not hold credit for this course and ENV-4450.

GEOG-4701(3) DIRECTED READINGS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (P) This course exposes students to contemporary and topical issues of human geography through authoritative readings compiled by the instructor. The student is required to produce a short dissertation. 
Prerequisite: Permission of the Department Chair.

GEOG-4901(6) HONOURS GEOGRAPHY THESIS (P) The Honours thesis provides the student with the opportunity to design and complete an original research project on a subject of interest and relevant to the discipline. In addition to completing the project, students in this course are expected to participate in a series of meetings throughout the academic year and make an oral presentation of the results of their research in April. 
Prerequisites: GEOG-2309(3), 36 credit hours completed in Geography, Geography GPA of 3.0, and permission of the Department Chair.