Human and Social Geography Track
Human and Social Geography in Action
Population, economics, public health, politics and culture, urban housing and development, geographies of justice, regional geography, political ecology, conservation practices, climate change action, resource management, and natural hazards
Human geography first and foremost involves the study of human beings--more specifically, of the organization of human activity and of spatial patterns as they affect and, in turn, respond to the world about us.Ìý The processes under study derive from distinct, but interactive, substructures: pursuit of livelihood (economic), social interaction (socio-political), and historical inertia and meaning (cultural).Ìý The products are change, conflict, diffusion, differentiation, and repetition in the human organization of the land.Ìý These same human processes will interact with biophysical processes, (e.g., air quality or plant introductions) to shape humanized landscapes and regional character.Ìý Human geographers typically investigate problems associated with locational strategies and human decisions.Ìý Such problems cut through subjects as diverse as analysis of regional markets, racial segregation in cities, migration flows, hazardous sites, international development, medieval landscape patterns, or formulation of impact statements.
Courses in this Concentration
Lower Division
- : Colorado Geographies: Environment, Society and Change in the Centennial State
- : Climate Change Geographies: Science, Impacts, and Action
- : Sustainable Futures, Environment & Society
- : Mapping a Our World
- : Advanced Human Geography
- GEOG 2112: Sounds Travels: Musical Geographies
- : Location, Location, Location: Introduction to Affordable Housing and Urban Development Geographies
- : Healthy Places, Toxic Spaces: Geographies of Wellbeing, Risk, and Care
- : Foundations in Public Health
Methods
- : Statistics and Geographic Data
- : Internship (case-by-case)
- : Advanced Quantitative Methods for Spatial Data
- : Research Seminar
- : Field Methods in Human Geography
- : GIS in the Social and Natural Sciences
Upper Division Electives (organize by sub-categories):
Environment, Society, and Sustainability
- : Climate Politics & Policy
- : Mountain Geosystems
- : Natural Hazards
- : Conservation Practice and Resource Management
- : Political Ecology
- : Place, Power, and Contemporary Culture
- : Environmentalism, Race, and Justice
- : Climate Action Planning: Reducing Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's Emissions
- : Water Issues in the American West
- : Political Ecology of Latin America
Geographies of Justice
- : Who Runs the World? Sex, Power, and Gender in Geography
- : International Development: Economics, Power, and Place
- : Power, Place, and Contemporary Culture
- : Environmentalism, Race, and Justice
- GEOG 4112: Development and Social Wellbeing: Understanding Policy and Practice with Fieldwork in India
- : Migration, Immigrant Adaptation, and Development
- GEOG 4302: Latinx Geographies
- Political Geography
- : Food & Power
Housing/Urban Development
- : Reimagining Cities: Spaces of Power, Privilege, and Possibility
- : Cities of the Global South
- : Economic Geography
- GEOG 4602: Global Perspectives on Urban Resilience and Sustainability Planning
Public Health
- : Introduction to Global Public Health
- Migration, Immigration Adaptation, & Development
- Public Health Capstone Research Methods: Environmental Interventions to the Mental Health Epidemic
- : Climate Change and Health
GEOG 4693: GIS and Public Health - GEOG 4792: Human Health and the Environment
- : Health and Medical Geography
Regional Geography
- : Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
- : China's Diverse Geographies: Environment, Society, Politics
- : Love & War Geographies: Imperialism, Militarism, and Development in South Asia
- : Global Africa: Environment, Development, and Culture
- : Geography of the Former Soviet Union