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GGRC24H3 - Socio-Natures and the Cultural Politics of 'The Environment'

Explores the processes through which segments of societies come to understand their natural surroundings, the social relations that produce those understandings, popular representations of nature, and how 'the environment' serves as a consistent basis of social struggle and contestation.
Areas of focus: Environmental Geography; Social/Cultural Geography

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: GGRB21H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRC25H3 - Land Reform and Development

Land reform, which entails the redistribution of private and public lands, is broadly associated with struggles for social justice. It embraces issues concerning how land is transferred (through forceful dispossession, law, or markets), and how it is currently held. Land inequalities exist all over the world, but they are more pronounced in the developing world, especially in countries that were affected by colonialism. Land issues, including land reform, affect most development issues.
Area of focus: Environmental Geography

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: GGRB21H3 or AFSB01H3 or IDSB02H3 or ESTB01H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRC26H3 - Geographies of Environmental Governance

This course addresses the translation of environmentalisms into formalized processes of environmental governance; and examines the development of environmental institutions at different scales, the integration of different forms of environmental governance, and the ways in which processes of governance relate to forms of environmental practice and management.
Area of focus: Environmental Geography

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: GGRB21H3 or ESTB01H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRC27H3 - Location and Spatial Development

Location of a firm; market formation and areas; agricultural location; urban spatial equilibrium; trade and spatial equilibrium; locational competition; equilibrium for an industry; trade and location.
Area of focus: Urban Geography

Prerequisite: MGEA01H3 and [[GGRB02H3 and GGRB05H3] or [CITB01H3 and CITA01H3/(CITB02H3)]] or [[MGEB01H3 or MGEB02H3] and [MGEB05H3 or MGEB06H3]]
Exclusion: (GGRB27H3) GGR220Y
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRC28H3 - Indigenous Peoples, Environment and Justice

Engages Indigenous perspectives on the environment and environmental issues. Students will think with Indigenous concepts, practices, and theoretical frameworks to consider human-environment relations. Pressing challenges and opportunities with respect to Indigenous environmental knowledge, governance, law, and justice will be explored. With a focus primarily on Canada, the course will include case studies from the US, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: GGRB18H3/ESTB02H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRC30H3 - Advanced GIS

This course covers advanced theoretical and practical issues of using GIS systems for research and spatial analysis. Students will learn how to develop and manage GIS research projects, create and analyze three-dimensional surfaces, build geospatial models, visualize geospatial data, and perform advanced spatial analysis. Lectures introduce concepts and labs implement them.

Prerequisite: GGRB32H3
Exclusion: GGR373H
Breadth Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning

GGRC31H3 - Qualitative Geographical Methods: Place and Ethnography

Explores the practice of ethnography (i.e. participant observation) within and outside the discipline of geography, and situates this within current debates on methods and theory. Topics include: the history of ethnography, ethnography within geography, current debates within ethnography, the "field," and ethnography and "development."

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

GGRC32H3 - Essential Spatial Analysis

This course builds on introductory statistics and GIS courses by introducing students to the core concepts and methods of spatial analysis. With an emphasis on spatial thinking in an urban context, topics such as distance decay, distance metrics, spatial interaction, spatial distributions, and spatial autocorrelation will be used to quantify spatial patterns and identify spatial processes. These tools are the essential building blocks for the quantitative analysis of urban spatial data.
Area of focus: Urban Geography

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits including [STAB23H3 and GGRB30H3]
Exclusion: GGR276H
Breadth Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning

GGRC33H3 - The Toronto Region

This course examines issues of urban form and structure, urban growth and planning in the Toronto region. Current trends in population, housing, economy, environment, governance, transport, urban design and planning practices at the local level and the regional scale will be examined critically.
Area of focus: Urban Geography

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: CITA01H3/(CITB02H3) or GGRB05H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRC34H3 - Crowd-sourced Urban Geographies

Significant recent transformations of geographic knowledge are being generated by the ubiquitous use of smartphones and other distributed sensors, while web-based platforms such as Open Street Map and Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) have made crowd-sourcing of geographical data relatively easy. This course will introduce students to these new geographical spaces, approaches to creating them, and the implications for local democracy and issues of privacy they pose.
Area of focus: Urban Geography

Prerequisite: GGRB05H3 or GGRB30H3
Recommended Preparation: GGRB32H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

GGRC40H3 - Megacities and Global Urbanization

The last 50 years have seen dramatic growth in the global share of population living in megacities over 10 million population, with most growth in the global south. Such giant cities present distinctive infrastructure, health, water supply, and governance challenges, which are increasingly central to global urban policy and health.
Area of focus: Urban Geography

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Exclusion: (CITC40H3)
Recommended Preparation: CITA01H3/(CITB02H3) or GGRB05H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRC41H3 - Current Topics in Human Geography

Examination and discussion of current trends and issues in human geography, with particular emphasis on recent developments in concepts and methods. This course is an unique opportunity to explore a particular topic in-depth, the specific content will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: GGRB20H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRC42H3 - Making Sense of Data: Applied Multivariate Analysis

This course introduces students to the main methods of multivariate analysis in the social sciences, with an emphasis on applications incorporating spatial thinking and geographic data. Students will learn how to evaluate data quality, construct analysis datasets, and perform and interpret multivariate analyses using the R statistical programming language.

Prerequisite: STAB22H3 or equivalent
Exclusion: GGRC41H3 (if taken in the 2019 Fall session)
Breadth Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning

GGRC43H3 - Social Geographies of Street Food

This course uses street food to comparatively assess the production of ‘the street’, the legitimation of bodies and substances on the street, and contests over the boundaries of, and appropriate use of public and private space. It also considers questions of labour and the culinary infrastructure of contemporary cities around the world.

Area of Focus: Social/Cultural Geography
Same as FSTC43H3

Prerequisite: FSTA01H3 or GGRA02H3 or GGRA03H3
Exclusion: FSTC43H3, GGRC41H3 (if taken in the 2019 Winter and 2020 Winter sessions)
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

GGRC44H3 - Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development

Deals with two main topics: the origins of environmental problems in the global spread of industrial capitalism, and environmental conservation and policies. Themes include: changes in human-environment relations, trends in environmental problems, the rise of environmental awareness and activism, environmental policy, problems of sustainable development.
Area of focus: Environmental Geography

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Exclusion: GGR233Y, (GGRB20H3)
Recommended Preparation: GGRB21H3 or IDSB02H3 or ESTB01H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

GGRC48H3 - Geographies of Urban Poverty

How have social and economic conditions deteriorated for many urban citizens? Is the geographic gap widening between the rich and the poor? This course will explore the following themes: racialization of poverty, employment and poverty, poverty and gender socio-spatial polarization, and housing and homelessness.
Area of focus: Urban Geography

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: CITA01H3/(CITB02H3) or GGRB05H3 or IDSA01H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRC50H3 - Geographies of Education

Explores the social geography of education, especially in cities. Topics include geographical educational inequalities; education, class and race; education, the family, and intergenerational class immobility; the movement of children to attend schools; education and the ‘right to the city.’
Areas of focus: Urban or Social/Cultural Geography

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: GGRB05H3 or GGRB13H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

GGRC54H3 - Human Geography Field Trip

Provides an opportunity to engage in a field trip and field research work on a common research topic. The focus will be on: preparation of case study questions; methods of data collection including interviews, archives, and observation; snowballing contacts; and critical case-study analysis in a final report.

Prerequisite: GGRB02H3 and 1.0 additional credit at the B-level in GGR
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

GGRD01H3 - Supervised Research Project

An independent studies course open only to students in the Major Program in Human Geography. An independent studies project will be carried out under the supervision of an individual faculty member.

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits including GGRB02H3

GGRD08H3 - Research Seminar in Environmental Geography

Designed for final-year Human Geography Majors, this seminar is devoted to analysis and discussion of advanced theoretical and methodological issues in Environmental Geography. Specific content will vary from year to year. Seminar format with active student participation.
Area of focus: Environmental Geography

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits including GGRB21H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

GGRD09H3 - Feminist Geographies

How do gender relations shape different spaces? We will explore how feminist geographers have approached these questions from a variety of scales - from the home, to the body, to the classroom, to the city, to the nation, drawing on the work of feminist geographers.
Area of focus: Social/Cultural Geography

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRD10H3 - Health and Sexuality

Examines links between health and human sexuality. Particularly explores sexually transmitted infections. Attention will be given to the socially and therefore spatially constructed nature of sexuality. Other themes include sexual violence, masculinities and health, reproductive health, and transnational relationships and health. Examples will be taken from a variety of countries.
Area of focus: Social/Cultural Geography

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits including [GGRB13H3 or IDSB04H3 or WSTB05H3]
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRD11H3 - Advanced Geographical Theory and Methods

Designed for final-year Human Geography Majors, this reading-intensive seminar course develops analytical and methodological skills in socio-spatial analysis. We explore major theoretical/methodological traditions in geography including positivism, humanism, Marxism, and feminism, and major analytical categories such as place, scale, and networks. Particularly recommended for students intending to apply to graduate school.

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits including GGRB02H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRD12H3 - Seminar in Selected Topics in Human Geography

Designed for final-year Human Geography Majors, this seminar is devoted to analysis and discussion of current theoretical and methodological issues in human geography. This course is an unique opportunity to explore a particular topic in-depth, the specific content will vary from year to year. Seminar format with active student participation.

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits including GGRB02H3

GGRD13H3 - Space, Place, People: Practice of Ethnographic Inquiry

This course focuses on the practice of ethnography in geographic research and allows students to design and conduct their own ethnographic research projects. Utilizing various approaches in geographic scholarship, in the first part of the course students will learn about ethnographic research methods and methodologies and finalize their research proposals. In the second part, they will carry out their research under the supervision of the course director and with support from their peers. Course assignments will assist each student throughout their research design, ethics approval, ethnography, and writing a final paper. Course meetings will be conducted in a seminar format.

Prerequisite: Any 13.0 credits, including GGRC31H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

GGRD14H3 - Social Justice and the City

Examines links between politics of difference, social justice and cities. Covers theories of social justice and difference with a particular emphasis placed on understanding how contemporary capitalism exacerbates urban inequalities and how urban struggles such as Occupy Wall Street seek to address discontents of urban dispossession. Examples of urban social struggles will be drawn from global North and South.
Areas of focus: Urban or Social/Cultural Geography

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits including [GGRB05H3 or GGRB13H3 or CITA01H3/(CITB02H3) or IDSB06H3]
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRD15H3 - Queer Geographies

How do sex and gender norms take and shape place? To examine this question, we will explore selected queer and trans scholarship, with a particular emphasis on queer scholars of colour and queer postcolonial literatures. Course topics include LGBTQ2S lives and movements, cities and sexualities, cross-border migration flows, reproductive justice, and policing and incarceration.

Prerequisite: Any 8.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: GGRB13H3 or WSTB25H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRD16H3 - Work and Livelihoods in the GTA

As major engines of the global economy, cities are also concentrated sites of work and employment. Popular and political understandings about what constitutes "fair" and "decent" work, meanwhile, are currently facing profound challenges. From the rise of platformed gig work to the rising cost of living in many cities – this course introduces students to approaches within Geography that help to conceptualize what "work" is, and to major forces shaping the laboured landscapes of cities, with a focus on the Greater Toronto Area. In this course students will get the opportunity to explore the varied forms of production and reproduction that make the GTA function and thrive, and to develop a vocabulary and critical lens to identify the geographies of different kinds of work and employment relations. Students will also have the chance to develop labour market research skills, and to critically examine the forms of work they themselves undertake every day.

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits including [GGRB05H3 or CITA01H3/(CITB02H3)]
Exclusion: SOCB54H3 and GGRD25H3 (if taken in Winter 2022)
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

GGRD25H3 - Research Seminar in Urban Spaces

Designed for final-year Human Geography Majors, this seminar is devoted to analysis and discussion of current theoretical and methodological issues in urban geography. Specific content will vary from year to year. Seminar format with active student participation.
Area of focus: Urban Geography

Prerequisite: 13.0 credits including [GGRB05H3 or CITA01H3/(CITB02H3)]
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Note: Priority will be given to Geography Majors with the highest CGPA.

GGRD30H3 - GIS Research Project

Students will design, manage and complete a research project using GIS. Students will work in teams of 4-6 to pose a research question, acquire a dataset, and organize and analyze the data to answer their question. The course will teach research design, project management, data analysis, team work, and presentation of final results.

Prerequisite: GGRC30H3
Exclusion: GGR462H
Breadth Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Course Experience: University-Based Experience