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  • GUS 4021: International Urbanization

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Each year the cities of the world increase by about 50 million people with most of the increase coming from cities in middle and lower income countries in Asia, South Asia and Africa. This course provides an opportunity for students to focus specifically on urbanization outside the mature urban societies of the United States, Europe and Japan. This course examines issues confronted by planners, policy makers and citizens in rapidly urbanizing areas, as well as the social and cultural tensions related to urban change.

    Note: This course is generally offered every other year. Prior to spring 2009, the course title was “Urbanization in Developing Areas.” Mode: Seminar. Prerequisite:    Three GUS courses or any five social sciences courses or permission of the instructor

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  • GUS 4044: Urban Housing

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    An overview of the economic, social, physical, and political forces that structure current urban housing conditions and prospects. Examination of the implications of present trends for the future and the development of rational housing policies, emphasizing the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Prerequisite:    Either GUS 1021 (R055)/1022 (0055) or GUS 1025 (C060) or equivalent plus two other GUS courses or permission of instructor
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  • GUS 4051: Geography of Hazards

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course provides a synthesis of the social and natural dimensions of disasters. Students become familiar with the concept that disasters emerge when the specific characteristics of hazards (e.g. volcanoes, droughts, floods, tsunamis) intersect with social vulnerability (e.g. class, race, gender). Case studies from around the world are used to elaborate and explore this concept. Prerequisite:    EVRN ST/GUS 1051 (C050) or 1951 (H090) or X050 plus two other GUS or ES courses or permission of instructor
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  • GUS 4056: Political Ecology

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course addresses the broad themes of political ecology as an academic discipline as well as a set of theoretical and methodological tools. Historically political ecology has focused on the rural developing world, but more recent work has branched out into environmental justice and resource use in industrialized societies. The course covers the concepts that have distinguished political ecology from other types of analysis like cultural and human ecology. It also introduces students to the construction of theory including a consideration of space, scale, justice, feminism, property, and nature. Finally, the course presents students with diverse case studies that may include topics like resource use, mining, bio-prospecting, forestry, conservation, fisheries, “sustainable” development, and eco-tourism. Prerequisite:    EVRN ST/GUS 1051 (C050) or 1951 (H090) or X050 or permission of instructor
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  • GUS 4061: Cartographic Production

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    A course concerned with aspects of storage, retrieval, and display of information within geographic data systems. Emphasis will be placed on computer mapping.
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  • GUS 4065: Applications in Geographic Information Systems

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    The purpose of this course is to build on the basic principles of the introductory GIS course to demonstrate how GIS may be applied to the analysis of physical and human systems. Topics of the course include vector and raster data integration; address matching, geocoding, and network analysis; terrain and hydrological analysis; and interpolation of environmental and population data. At the end of the course the student is expected to grasp advanced GIS analysis and modeling concepts. Prerequisite:    GUS 3062 (0262)
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  • GUS 4071: Medical Geography

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Medical geography applies concepts and methods from the discipline of geography to study medical and health related events and topics. Medical geography has a close disciplinary tie with epidemiology, biostatistics, medical ecology and medical anthropology, but it is differentiated by its focus on the spatial distributions of health/medical related events.
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  • GUS 4075: Comparative Regional Development

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course examines the transformations that, beginning with the European expansion 500 years ago, have, to a large extent, created much of the regional variation we see in the world today. We consider theoretical approaches to understanding “modernization” and “development” and build on this foundation to look at the historic factors that have shaped different parts of the world. We also examine the political, economic, social, spatial and environmental processes that have influenced those countries that share a colonial past (our primary focus) but also may examine the transition economies of Eastern Europe, Asia, and North America and Japan.

    Note: This course may be offered every other year. Prior to spring 2009, the course title was “Regional Development in the Third World.” Mode: Seminar. Prerequisite:    A combined total of 12 credits in Geography & Urban Studies or International Studies courses or permission of the instructor

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  • GUS 4078: Research Methods in Environmental Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course covers basic research design and methods for environmental research, consulting, and practice. We build this around the theme of environmental impact assessment (EIA). During the course of your environmental careers, most of you will be expected to conduct, reference, evaluate, or otherwise incorporate EIA into your work. Most EIA’s incorporate a diverse set of research methods—and an understanding of a wide-ranging set of research methodologies, and when and how to deploy them—is a central objective for this course. The first third of the course covers project design and methods; the second third addresses the environmental impact assessment process and especially its methodological components; and the final section is a highly interactive (with much peer review) approach to the development and defense of the methodologies you employ in the research prospectus that you develop for this course. Prerequisite:    ENGLISH 0802; GUS/ES 1051; One of the following: SOC 1167, Psych 1167, MATH 1013, STAT 2101, or GUS 3161
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  • GUS 4082: Independent Study Environmental Geography

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Reading and/or papers undertaken by the student wishing to study a specific topic, under the active supervision of a faculty member. Prerequisite:    Permission of instructor required
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