Undergrad Area of Concentration
You may choose to follow a general geography major/minor or choose to concentrate your studies in one of four optional tracks, such as Environment-Society Relations.
From its earliest development as an academic field, geography has been concerned with the manifold relations between societies and their natural and built environments. Societies adapt and transform the environments they inhabit. They depend upon the use of resources and reduction of hazards for their survival and material well-being. They also assign meanings to the environment that vary over place and time, but that help define their identity and values within the world. Geographers tend to study these phenomena under the broad headings of resource use, natural hazards, sustainable development, landscape studies, cultural ecology, and environmental conservation. The University of Colorado has special strength in land and water resource issues in the American West, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Students concentrating on environment-society relations are advised to take the introductory courses in human and physical geography and then, depending upon their academic interests and aims, to concentrate on specific topics and regions in the environment- society area.
GEOG 1001 Environmental Systems 1: Climate & Vegetation**
GEOG 1011 Environmental Systems 2: Landscapes & Water**
Two of the following four courses are prerequisites to all (human geography) upper-division courses listed further below.
GEOG 1982 World Regional Geography
GEOG 1992 Human Geographies
GEOG 2002 Geographies of Global Change
GEOG 2412 Environment and Culture
Upper Division Courses. Additional prerequisites may be listed.
GEOG 3251 Mountain Geography
GEOG 3301 Analysis of Climate and Weather Observations**
GEOG 3351 Biogeography
GEOG 3402 Natural Hazards
GEOG 3412 Conservation Practice and Resource Management
GEOG 3422 Conservation Thought
GEOG 3511 Introduction to Hydrology**
GEOG 3601 Principles of Climate**
GEOG 3682 Geography of International Development
GEOG 3812 Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
GEOG 3822 Geography of China**
GEOG 3862 Geography of Africa
GEOG 4401 Soils Geography (Prereq: GEOG 1011; Recommended Prereq: inorganic chemistry)
GEOG 4430 Seminar: Conservation Trends**
GEOG 4501 Water Resources and Water Management in the Western US
GEOG 4742 Environments and Peoples**
GEOG 4812 Environment and Development in South America**
GEOG 4822 Environment and Development in China**
GEOG 4852 Health and Medical Geography**
**core curriculum course
Caution: These courses do not count as hours in the Geography Major.
Check with the appropriate department for the prerequisites for these courses.
CHEM 1011 Environmental Chemistry 1**
CHEM 1031 Environmental Chemistry 2**
ECON 2010 Principles of Microeconomics**
ECON 2020 Principles of Macroeconomics**
ECON 3535 Natural Resource Economics**
ECON 3545 Environmental Economics**
EBIO 1210 General Biology 1**
EBIO 1220 General Biology 2**
EBIO 2040 Principles of Ecology**
EBIO 3040 Conservation Biology
EBIO 3180 Global Ecology**
GEOL 3040 Global Change: The Recent Geological Record**
GEOL 3520 Environmental Issues in Geosciences**
PHIL 3140 Environmental Ethics**
PHYS 3070 Energy and the Environment**
PSCI 3201 The Environment and Public Policy
**core curriculum course
Caution: These lists are incomplete.
| Num | Num | Sect | Title | Hrs | Instructor |
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| 4501 | 5501 | 100 | Wtr Resources/Mgmt in the US West | 3 | Lander |
| Num | Num | Sect | Title | Hrs | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Geographies of Global Change | 3 | O'Loughlin | ||
| 3402 | Natural Hazards | 3 | Travis | ||
| 4501 | 5501 | Wtr Resources/Mgmt in the US West | 3 | Lander | |
| 4632 | 5632 | Development Geography | 3 | Oakes | |
| 4742 | Environments and Peoples | 3 | Jan |
| Num | Num | Sect | Title | Hrs | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2412 | 100 | Environment and Culture | 3 | Goldman | |
| 3930 | 5930 | Internship | 3 | Pitlick | |
| 4292 | 5292 | Migration, Immigrant Adaptation,and Development | 3 | Riosmena |
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Mara Goldman |
Political Ecology; Science and Technology Studies; indigenous knowledge; Nature-Society Relations |
Human Env-Society |
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William Travis |
Natural Resource Conservation; Environment & Society |
Human Env-Society |
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Emily Yeh |
Nature/society geography; political ecology; cultural politics; development; Tibet; China |
Human Env-Society |
Apr 2011
Three Geography Grad Students Win Environment-Society Fellowships
Oct 2010
Gamma Theta Upsilon wins trivia bowl
Jul 2010
Emily Yeh Quoted in New York Times Article Regarding Chinese Migrant Workers in Tibet
Jun 2010
Water Resources Outreach in the Four-Corners Area of Colorado
Apr 2010
Emily Yeh Using ARRA Funding to Study Environmentalism in China and Tibet
Apr 2010
Emily Yeh promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
Mar 2010
Geography student wins $20K sustainability grant
Mar 2010
Ken Foote Elected President of AAG
Feb 2010
Emily Yeh wins 2009 Leopold-Hidy Prize
Feb 2010
Early Career Workshop for new faculty and advanced doctoral students, 13-19 June 2010, Boulder CO
Nov 2009
CU-Boulder Contingent Set for Copenhagen Climate Conference
Mar 2009
Kendle Wade awarded an Adam Kolff Research Fellowship
Sep 2011
"From the Havens to the Markets: State, Development and the Mediation of Nature in Northwest China."
Apr 2011
Austin: A City of Tolerance, Ideas and Immigrants?
Apr 2011
Geographies of religion and class: young people in deprived Britain
Feb 2011
Tibetan Adaptations to High Altitude
Feb 2011
Development as gift: Comfortable housing and the new socialist countryside in Tibet
Jan 2011
Mapping Indigenous Lands: A Participatory Approach
Oct 2010
Info session for undergraduates.
Sep 2010
Community conservation in Myanmar (Burma): a decade of experiences
Feb 2010
Photo Exhibit: Now We Have Nothing: People Displaced From South Ossetia
Feb 2010
Now We Have Nothing: People Displaced From South Ossetia
Sep 2009
Signals and noise: examining media representations of climate change
Sep 2009
Melting ice and resource geopolitics competition in the Arctic
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Elizabeth Pike Primary Undergraduate Advisor |
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Darla Shatto Undergraduate Assistant |
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John Pitlick Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies |
Images taken by faculty and grad students associated with environment-society relations
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See About > Environment-Society Relations
