Geosciences and Environment

BA Geography

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Urban Analysis Option (64 units)
I. Lower Division Required Courses (16 units)

GEOG 155 Cultural Geography (4)
GEOG 160 Physical Geography (4)
GEOG 282 Spatial Measurements and Elementary Statistics (4)

Select one of the following two courses (4 units)
GEOL 150 Earth Revealed (4)
GEOL 155 Oceanography (4)

II. Upper division required courses (32 units)
GEOG 369 Fundamentals of Geographic Information Sciences (4)
GEOG 370 World Regional (4)
GEOG 376 Urban Spatial Processes (4)
GEOG 395 Geographic Methodology (4)
GEOG 432 Metropolitan Los Angeles (4)
GEOG 446 U.S. Ethnic Communities (4)
GEOG 476 Urban Geography (4)
GEOG 495 Senior Thesis (4)

III. Elective (16 units)
Select at least one course from each of the following three groups:

Methods
GEOG 442 Population Geography (4)
GEOG 463 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications in Urban Planning (4)
GEOG 464 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications in Political Science (4)
GEOG 465 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Applications in Environmental Studies (4)
GEOG 466 Remote Sensing (4)
GEOG 482 Multivariate Statistics in Geography (4)

Environmental
GEOG 309 Urban Environmental Pollution (4)
GEOG 310 Urban Climatology (4)
GEOG 312 Global Climate Change and the Developing World (4)
GEOG 333 Environment and Development in the Third World (4)
GEOG 403 Environment and Food Customs (4)
GEOG 410 Applied Climatology (4)
GEOG 415 Perspectives on Environment (4)
GEOG 466 Remote Sensing (4)
SOC 487 Environmental Policy, Law, and Society

Social and Economic
GEOG 457 Transportation Geography (4)
GEOG 458 Urban Transportation (4)
GEOG 478 Middle Eastern Cities (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)