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These are courses from other departments on campus that somehow relate to your Geography degree. Use these courses to increase the depth of your education in your chosen area. For instance, if you are interested in Urban Planning, you might also want to take Environmental Study's 135 and 165 series to learn about Environmental Planning and Environmental Impact Reports. These are courses that will be applied to the Geography upper-division elective requirement without a petition. This does NOT apply to double majors, who must use a petition to transfer units. This list is not all-inclusive and other courses may be accepted via a petition (consult an undergraduate advisor for more information). Petitions may be obtained from the Undergraduate Advisor in the Geography Office or from the College of Letters and Science Office (1117 Cheadle Hall). Also, remember that the prerequisites of other departments must be complied with as many of these courses do have prerequisites and may also require special permission of the instructor.

Please note: If you take more than 8 units from this list, all units will be applied to your major GPA.

Anthropology

  • 121MS Historical World Systems
  • 122 Anthropology of World Systems
  • 130A Third World Environments: Problems and Prospects (same as ES 130A)
  • 130B Third World Environments: Conservation and Sustainable Development (same as ES 130B)
  • 130C Third World Environments: Response and Resistance (same as ES 130C)
  • 136 Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific
  • 140RM Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
  • 141 Agriculture and Society in Mexico: Past and Present
  • 142 Peoples and Cultures of India
  • 145 Anthropological Demography and Life History
  • 147 Understanding Cultural Differences
  • 148 Eculogical Anthropology
  • 149 World Food and Population (same as Env. Studies 149)
  • 156 Understanding Africa
  • 159 Urban Anthropology
  • 182 Quantitative Data Analysis in Archaeology
  • 184 Settlement Pattern Analysis in Archaeology

Comparative Literature

  • 107 Voyage to the Unknown (Same as French/Italian 146X)

Computer Science

  • 110A Foundations of Scientific Computing
  • 110B Parallel Scientific Computing
  • 130A Data Structures and Algorithms I
  • 130B Data Structures and Algorithms II

Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology

  • 103A Flora and Vegetation of California (formerly Bot 103A)
  • 103B Vegetation and Flora of California
  • 120 Introduction to Ecology (formerly Bio 120)
  • 121 Field Ecology
  • 123 Physiological Ecology
  • 127 Introduction to Botany
  • 127L Laboratory for Introduction to Botany
  • 133 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
  • 140/L General Plant Ecology (formerly Bot 140/L)
  • 141 Physiological Plant Ecology (formerly Bot 141)
  • 142A Aquatic Communities (formerly EEMB 145C)
  • 142AL Methods of Aquatic Community Ecology (formerly EEMB 145CL)
  • 142B Environmental Processes in Oceans and Lakes (formerly EEMB 145A)
  • 142BL Chemical and Physical Methods of Aquatic Environments (formerly EEMB 45AL)
  • 142C Environmental Processes in Oceans and Lakes (formerly EEMB 145B)
  • 142CL Methods of Aquatic Biology (formerly EEMB 145BL)
  • 148 Ecology of Running Waters (formerly Bio 148)
  • 148L Investigations in Stream Ecology (formerly Bio 148L)
  • 151 Photosynthesis and Primary Productivity (formerly Bio 151)
  • 153 Ecology of Lakes and Wetlands
  • 158 Island Biology (formerly Bio 158)
  • 159 Tropical Ecology (formerly Bio 159)
  • 170 Biology of the Marine-Land Interface (formerly Bio 141)
  • 171 Ecosystem Processes (formerly Bio 171-same as ES 171)
  • 173 Global Ecology
  • 178 Statistical Methods in Field Ecology
  • 179 Modeling Environmental and Ecological Changes (or Bio 179)
  • 185 Field Work in Oceanography
  • 186 Restoration Ecology

Economics

  • 111 Economic History of Ancient Civilization
  • 122 Natural Resources Economics
  • 140A,B Introduction to Econometrics I, II

Environmental Studies

  • 100 Environmental Ecology
  • 105 Solar and Renewable Energy
  • 106 Critical Thinking about Human-Environment Problems and Solutions
  • 107 History of Global Environmental Problems
  • 110 Disease and the Environment
  • 115 Energy and the Environment
  • 116 The Urban Environment
  • 118 Industrial Ecology: Designing for the Environment
  • 120 Toxics in the Environment
  • 125A Principles of Environmental Law
  • 125B Land Use and Planning Law
  • 126A Environmental Law: Simcoast
  • 130A Third World Environments: Problems and Prospects
  • 130B Third World Environments: Conservation and Sustainable Development
  • 130C Third World Environments: Response and Resistance
  • 132 Human Behavior and Global Environment
  • 133 Coastal Processes and Management
  • 135A Principles of Environmental Planning
  • 135B Advanced Environmental Planning
  • 147 Air Quality and the Environment
  • 149 World Food and Population
  • 152 Applied Marine Ecology
  • 163 Environmental Analytical Methods
  • 165A/B Environmental Impact Analysis I/II
  • 166BT Biotechnulogy, Food and Agriculture
  • 166FP Small-Scale Food Production
  • 168 Aqueous Transport of Pollutants
  • 169 Tracer Hydrology
  • 170 Environmental Geology (same as Geul 170)
  • 171 Ecosystem Processes (same as EEMB 171)
  • 172 Integrated Materials and Waste Management
  • 173 American Environmental History (same as History 173T)
  • 174 Environmental Policy and Economics
  • 176A Water Policy in the West: Linking Science with Environmental and Economic Values
  • 176B Advanced Study of Water Policy

Cross-listed Environmental Studies

  • 111 The California Channel Islands (same as Geog 149)
  • 114A/AL Biogeochemistry of the Soil Environment (same as Geog 114A/AL)
  • 114B/BL Soil Genesis and Classification (same as Geog 114B/BL)
  • 144 Form, Process, and Human Use of Rivers (same as Geog 144)
  • 162A Water Pollution (same as Geog 162A)
  • 187 The Idea of Nature (same as Geog 187)
  • 188 The Ethics of Human-Environment Relations (same as Geog 188)

French and Italian

  • 146X Voyages to the Unknown (same as Comp Lit 107)

Geological Sciences

  • 109 Geology of California
  • 117 Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • 164A Earth System Geology
  • 164B Earth System Ocean-Atmosphere
  • 164C Earth System History
  • 168 Aqueous Transport of Pollutants (same as Env St 168)
  • 170 Environmental Geology (same as Env St 170)
  • 173 Groundwater Hydrology (same as Geog 116)

Global Studies

  • 104 Global Diasporas and Cultural Change
  • 121 Historical World Systems
  • 122 The Contemporary World System (same as Soc 166)
  • 123 Introduction to International Political Economy
  • 124 Global Conflict
  • 134 Social Analysis of Terrorism
  • 140 Development and Social Change in South and Central Asia (same as Soc 130SA)
  • 141 Modern Southeast Asia (same as Hist 189SE)
  • 142 Modern South Asia

History of Art and Architecture

  • 136I The City in History

History

  • 173T American Environmental History (same as Env St 173)
  • 177 History of California
  • 178AB American Urban History
  • 178M History of American Urban Crime

Interdisciplinary

  • 192B Introduction to Shoreline Preservation: Research and Writing

Linguistics

  • 115 Introduction to Historical-Comparative Linguistics

Mathematics

  • 102AB Modern Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry
  • 104A Introduction into Numerical Analysis
  • 104B Numerical Analysis
  • 104C Advanced topics in Numerical Analysis
  • 108A Introduction to Linear Algebra
  • 108BC Advanced Linear Algebra
  • 113 Non-Euclidean Geometry
  • 116 Combinatorial Analysis
  • 118ABC Introduction to Real Analysis
  • 132ABC Introduction to Operations Research
  • 137AB Graph and Network Theory

Mechanical and Environmental Engineering

  • 152A Fluid Mechanics

Political Science

  • 175 Politics of the Environment

Psychology

  • 107 Introduction to Perception
  • 108 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
  • 156 Environmental Perception and Cognition (same as Geog 153C)

Religious Studies

  • 108 Global Religion
  • 114B Religious Traditions of the Southwest

Sociology

  • 126 Urban Society
  • 130 Development and its Alternatives
  • 130SA Development and Social Change in South and Central Asia (same as Glbl 140)
  • 136I Development and Social Change in Latin America
  • 166W The Contemporary World System (Same as Glbl 122)

Statistics and Applied Probability

  • 123 Sampling Techniques
  • 130 Statistical Computing
  • 133ABC Introduction to Statistical Methods
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