Department of Geography

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Courses

Geography Courses

To find out what we are offering in the current and future academic years, use the 3-Year Course Projections guide.
To see courses currently available, go to PSU Registration. For a complete description of each course listed below, see the Bulletin.
Notes: All courses with "U" in their course number satisfy Junior Cluster general education requirements. Courses in your major department or used to satisfy the requirements for a first major cannot be used to meet the cluster requirements.
GEOG/INTL 325U Contemporary India and GEOG 348U Cultural & Political Ecology satisfy the Race and Ethnic Studies (International) requirement.
 

Physical Geography:

Geog 210 Physical Geography
Geog 310U Climate and Water Resources
Geog 311U Climatology
Geog 312U Climate Variability and Change
Geog 313U Biogeography
Geog 314U Severe Weather
Geog 320 Geomorphology
Geog 322U Mountains
Geog 333U Weather
Geog 340U Global Water Issues & Sustainability
Geog 4/507 Seminar in Physical Geography
Geog 4/510 Topics in Physical Geography
Geog 4/512 Global Climate Change Science and Socio-environmental Impact Assessment
Geog 4/513 Disturbance Biogeography of the Pacific Northwest
Geog 4/514 Hydrology
Geog 4/515 Soils and Land Use
Geog 4/518 Landscape Ecology
Geog 4/540 The Ecology and Management of Wildfire

Geographic Techniques:

Geog 380U Maps and Geographic Information
Geog 4/507 Seminar in Research Skills
Geog 4/510 Topics in Geography Techniques
Geog 4/520 Field Methods in Physical Geography
Geog 4/525 Field Methods in Human Geography
Geog 4/572 Critical GIS
Geog 4/575 Spatial Database Design and Applications
Geog 4/576 3D Terrain Analysis and Visualization
Geog 4/577 Photogrammetry and LiDAR
Geog 4/580 Remote Sensing and Image Analysis
Geog 4/581 Digital Image Analysis I: Introduction
Geog 4/582 Digital Image Analysis II: Advanced Remote Sensing
Geog 4/584 Cartographic Applications of GIS
Geog 4/585 Map Design and Production
Geog 4/588 Geographic Information Systems I: Introduction
Geog 4/589 Building a GIS Database with GPS
Geog 4/590 GIS Programming
Geog 4/592 Geographic Information Systems II: Advanced GIS
Geog 4/594 GIS for Water Resources
Geog 4/596 Introduction to Spatial Quantitative Analysis
Geog 4/597 Advanced Spatial Quantitative Analysis
Geog 591 Professionalism in GIS

 

Human Geography:

Geog 230 Environment and Society: Global Perspectives
Geog 321 Mt. Hood *
Geog 325U Contemporary India *
Geog 331U Geography of Globalization
Geog 332U Urban Geography
Geog 340U Global Water Issues & Sustainability
Geog 345U Resource Management
Geog 346U World Population and Food Supply
Geog 347U Environmental Issues and Actions
Geog 348U Cultural and Political Ecology
Geog 350U Geography of World Affairs *
Geog 351U Pacific Northwest *
Geog 354U Europe *
Geog 360U Latin America *
Geog 364U The Middle East *
Geog 366U Historical Geography of North America *
Geog 368U United States and Canada *
Geog 370U Global Migration
Geog 375U Maps, Culture, and Society
Geog 4/507 Seminar in Human Geography
Geog 4/510 Topics in Human Geography
Geog 4/530 Cultural Geography
Geog 4/532 Urban Landscapes
Geog 4/540 The Ecology and Management of Wildfire
Geog 4/542 Sustainable Cities
Geog 4/544 Political Ecologies of the Western US
Geog 4/545 Resource Management Topics
Geog 4/546 Water Resource Management
Geog 4/547 Urban Streams
Geog 4/548 The Urban Forest
Geog 4/549 Geography of Food
Geog 4/550 Climate and Society
Geog 4/562 Sense of Place
Geog 4/567 Community Resilience in Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems
Geog 4/572 Critical GIS

* These courses were previously listed as satisfying the regional requirement prior to Fall 2021.