Geography Department

Urban Analysis Option (72-73 units)

Lower Division Required Courses (24 units)

GEOG 155 Cultural Geography (4)
GEOG 160 Physical Geography (4)
GEOG 268 Computer and Internet Applications in Geography (4)
GEOG 269 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (4)
GEOG 282 Spatial Measurements and Elementary Statistics (4)
URBA 180 The Urban World (4)

Upper division required courses (28 units)

GEOG 377 Urban Issues (4)
GEOG 395 Geographic Methodology (4)
GEOG 432 Metropolitan Los Angeles (4)
GEOG 446 U.S. Ethnic Communities (4)
GEOG 453 Locational Analysis (4)
GEOG 476 Urban Geography (4)
URBA 401 Senior Project (4)

Electives (20-21 units)

Select at least one course from each of the following three groups

Methodology
GEOG 260 Map and Photo Interpretation (4)
GEOG 442 Population Geography (4)
GEOG 468 Computer Cartography (4)
GEOG 469 Spatial Analysis and GIS Modeling (4)
GEOG 482 Multivariate Statistics in Geography (4)
GEOG 485 Field geography (5)
URBA 454 *Selected Topics in Urban Analysis (4)
URBA 499 *Undergraduate Directed Study (1-4)
*When topic is methodology.

Environmental
GEOG 410 Applied Climatology (4)
GEOG 415 Perspectives on Environment (4)
GEOG 466 Remote Sensing (4)
POLS 358 Environmental Policy and Politics (4)
URBA 454 *Selected Topics in Urban Analysis (4)
URBA 499 *Undergraduate Directed Study (1-4)
* When topic is environmental.

Social and Economic
GEOG 448 Medical Geography (4)
GEOG 457 Transportation Geography (4)
GEOG 478 Middle Eastern Cities (4)
GEOG 479 Hybrid Urbanism: Urban Transformation of Central Asia (4)(also listed as AAAS 479)
ECON 440 Urban and Regional-Economics (4)
POLS 404 Urban Government and Politics (4)
POLS 406 Los Angeles City Politics (4)
POLS 461 Dynamics of urban administration (4)
SOC 430 Urban sociology (4)
URBA 454 *Selected topics in urban analysis (4)
URBA 499 *Undergraduate Directed Study (1-4)
* When-topic is social or economic