Academic Calendar 2024-2025

Geography – General (Arts) – Bachelor of Arts

GPHY-G-BA

Subject: Administered by the Department of Geography and Planning.
Plan: Consists of 30.00 units as described below.
Program: The Plan, with sufficient electives to total 90.00 units, will lead to a Bachelor of Arts Degree.

1. Core
A. Complete 6.00 units from the following:6.00
Human Geography
Thinking Locally
and
Physical Geography and Natural Resources
2. Option
A. Complete 6.00 units from the following course list:6.00
GPHY_Physical at the 200-level or above
B. Complete 6.00 units from the following course list:6.00
GPHY_Human at the 200-level or above
C. Complete 6.00 units from the following:6.00
GPHY at the 300-level or above
Race and Racism
D. Complete 6.00 units from the following:6.00
GPHY at any level
Race and Racism
Electives
Elective Courses60.00
Total Units90.00

3. Notes

A. A maximum of 6.00 units from courses offered by other Faculties and Schools may be counted toward the program and/or Plan requirements. This includes courses in BMED, COMM, GLPH, HSCI, LAW, NURS, and courses offered by Smith Engineering.

Geography Course Lists

The following lists contain courses offered through other Departments. In accordance with Academic Regulation 2.6 (Access to Classes), students do not have enrolment priority in all of these courses. Access to these courses may only be made available during the Open Enrolment period, and then only if space permits.

GPHY_Human

Human Geography
GPHY 101Human Geography3.00
GPHY 227Cities: Geography, Planning and Urban Life3.00
GPHY 228Geographies of the Global Political Economy3.00
GPHY 229Place, Space, Culture, and Social Life3.00
GPHY 230Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning3.00
GPHY 250The Geography of Canada3.00
GPHY 254The Caribbean in Globalizing World3.00
GPHY 309Field School in Geography3.00
GPHY 319Contemporary Energy Resources3.00
GPHY 320Energy and Society3.00
GPHY 325Maps and Society3.00
GPHY 327The Geographical Imagination3.00
GPHY 330Transportation Geography3.00
GPHY 333Markets, Environments, and Societies3.00
GPHY 334Geographies of Growth and Decline3.00
GPHY 336Geography, the Environment and Human Health3.00
GPHY 337Regional Development and Planning3.00
GPHY 338Urban Political Geography3.00
GPHY 351Geographies of Indigenous and Settler Relations3.00
GPHY 352Gender and the City3.00
GPHY 365Geography, Development, and Environment in the 'Third World'3.00
GPHY 367People and Place in the Changing Arctic3.00
GPHY 368Environments and Society3.00
GPHY 369Urban Natures3.00
GPHY 370Special Topics in Human Geography3.00
GPHY 401Honours Seminar in Human Geography I3.00
GPHY 402Honours Seminar in Human Geography II3.00
GPHY 403Honours Seminar in Human Geography III3.00
GPHY 501Special Studies in Geography3.00
GPHY 502Research and Thesis in Geography I3.00
GPHY 503Research and Thesis Geography II6.00
IDIS 302Race and Racism3.00

GPHY_Physical

Physical Geography
GPHY 102Physical Geography and Natural Resources3.00
GPHY 207Principles of Biogeography3.00
GPHY 208Surface Processes, Landforms, and Soils3.00
GPHY 209Weather and Climate3.00
GPHY 215Field Studies in Physical Geography3.00
GPHY 304Northern and Arctic Environments3.00
GPHY 305Applied Cold Regions Science3.00
GPHY 309Field School in Geography3.00
GPHY 310Landscape Ecology3.00
GPHY 312Watershed Hydrology3.00
GPHY 313Glacier Processes and Dynamics3.00
GPHY 314Climate Change3.00
GPHY 315Advanced Field Measurements and Their Analysis3.00
GPHY 317Soil, Environment, and Society3.00
GPHY 318Advanced Biogeography3.00
GPHY 319Contemporary Energy Resources3.00
GPHY 320Energy and Society3.00
GPHY 371Special Topics in Earth System Science3.00
GPHY 415Advanced Analysis of Earth Surface Processes6.00
GPHY 501Special Studies in Geography3.00
GPHY 502Research and Thesis in Geography I3.00
GPHY 503Research and Thesis Geography II6.00