Environment-Society Track
Environment-Society Relations in Action
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Population, political, urban, social, and cultural geography
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From its earliest development as an academic field, Geography has been concerned with the manifold relations between societies and their natural and built environments.Ìý Societies adapt and transform the environments they inhabit.Ìý They depend upon the use of resources and reduction of hazards for their survival and material well-being.Ìý They also assign meanings to the environment that vary over place and time, but that help define their identity and values within the world.ÌýÌý
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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.Ìý 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.Ìý
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Students must complete at least 37 and no more than 45 credit hours in Geography with grades of C- or better (23 hours must be upper division). No pass/fail grades are allowed in the major. Transfer students majoring in Geography must complete at least 12 hours of upper-division Geography courses at CU-Boulder. No course may be used to fulfill more than one requirement for the major.
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In addition to the courses required of all concentrations, complete the following GEOG coursework.
| Natural Hazards | 3 | |
| orÌý | Political Ecology | |
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| Applied Ecology for Environmental Studies | 4 | |
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| Select three of the following electives:1 | 9-10 | |
| Natural Hazards | Ìý | |
| Conservation Practice and Resource Management | Ìý | |
| Political Ecology | Ìý | |
| Who Runs the World? Sex, Power, and Gender in Geography | Ìý | |
| International Development: Economics, Power, and Place | Ìý | |
| Introduction to Global Public Health | Ìý | |
| Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean | Ìý | |
| China’s Diverse Geographies: Environment, Society, Politics | Ìý | |
| Global Africa: Environment, Development, and Culture | Ìý | |
| Topics in Human and Environment/Society Geography 2 | Ìý | |
| Research Seminar (may be applied to the concentration on a case-by-case basis) | Ìý | |
| Water Issues in the American West | Ìý | |
| Topics in Environment and Society 2 | Ìý | |
| Political Ecology & Latin America | Ìý | |
| Environment and Development in China | Ìý | |
| Internship (may be applied to the concentration on a case-by-case basis) | Ìý | |
| Senior Thesis (may be applied to the concentration on a case-by-case basis) | Ìý | |
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| Take one upper-division elective from either the Geographic Information Science, Human Geography, or Physical Geography list. | 3-4 | |
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Total Credit Hours | 19-21 | |
1Unless otherwise noted, the department-enforced prerequisite for all courses is GEOG 1962, GEOG 1982, GEOG 1992 or GEOG 2092.
2Special topics courses may be used to satisfy upper-division concentration requirements with approval from the department.
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