Courses by Concentration

Courses listed here by topic or geography concentration area are offered by the Department of Geography. The official UW-Madison Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog Geography Course listing is the final authority on courses.

Key

Course Levels are indicated by:

Frequency of course offering in recent years shown here as an indication (not a future certainty):

* Course is cross-listed in more than one Group. Choose the course grouping in which you want to count the course.

Group I. Physical Geography

120 Global Physical Environments (E) 1
121 Atmospheric Environment and Society (E) 2
127 Physical Systems of the Environment (E) 1
320 Geomorphology (I) 4
321 Climatology (I) 2
325 Analysis of the Physical Environment (I) 2
326 Landforms-Topics and Regions (I) 2
328 Arid Lands Geomorphology (I) 3
329 Landforms and Landscapes of North America (I) 3
331 Climatic Environments of the Past (I) 3
332 The Global Warming Debate (I) 3
338 Environmental Biogeography (I) 4
344 The American West (I) 3
420 Glacial and Pleistocene Geology (I) 3
523 Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics
524 Advanced Landform Geography (A) 4
525 Soil Geomorphology (A) 3
527 The Quaternary Period (A) 3
528 Past Climates and Climatic Change (A) 4
531 Global Climates (A) 3

Group II. Human Geography

101 Introduction to Human Geography (E) 1
102 Spatial Organization of Human Activity (E) 4
236 Bascom Course. I or II; 3 cr (b-E) (E)
300 Population-Migration and Diffusion (I) 4
301 Geography of Social Organization (I) 4
302 Economic Geography: Locational Behavior (I) 4
305 Introduction to the City (I) 1
312 Regional Development and Planning (I) 1
318 Introduction to Geopolitics (I) 2
*349 Europe (I) 2
*353 Geographies of Transition in Post-Socialist Space (i) 2
444 Health and Social Welfare in Western Society (i) 4
501 Space and Place: A Geography of Experience (S-A) 3
502 Spatial Behavior (A) 4
503 Researching the City: Qualitative Strategies (i) 3
505 Urban Spatial Patterns and Theories (A) 4
506 Historical Geography of European Urbanization (A) 4
507 Historical Geography of Urban North America (A) 4
*508 Landscape and Settlement in the North American Past (A) 3
510 Economic Geography (A) 2
*553 Russia and the CIS: Problems in Human Geography (A) 4

Group III. People-Environment Interaction

139 Resources and People (E) 2 or 3
230 Soil: Ecosystem and Resource (I) 2 or 3
240 Plants and Man (E) 2 or 3
303 The Human Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (I) 2
309 People, Land and Food: Comparative Study of Agriculture Systems (I) 2
319 Environmental Evaluation and Adaptation (I) 3
332 The Global Warming Debate (I) 3
336 Our Hazardous Environment (I) 2
338 Environmental Biogeography (I) 4
339 Environmental Conservation (I) 1
344 The American West (I) 3
434 People, Wildlife and Landscapes (I) 2
460 American Environmental History (I) 2
*508 Landscape and Settlement in the North American Past (I) 3
519 Environment and Human Experience (A) 3
534 History and Ideology of Environmentalism (A) 4
535 Environmental Geography and Conservation in Developing Countries (D) 4
536 American Wilderness: Perception and Preservation (A) 3
537 Culture and Environment (A) 2
538 The Humid Tropics: Ecology, Subsistence, and Development (A) 4

Group IV. Area Studies and Global Systems

140 World Regions: Concepts and Problems (E) 1
244 Introduction to Southeast Asia: Vietnam to the Philippines (E) 1
253 Russia: An Interdisciplinary Survey (E)
260 Latin America: An Introduction (E) 2
277 Africa: An Introductory Survey (I) 1
340 World Regions in Global Context (I) 4
342 Geography of Wisconsin (I) 4
344 The American West (I) 4
345 Ethnicity in North America: A Regional Perspective (I) 2
348 Latin America (I) 2
*349 Europe (I) 2
*353 Geographies of Transition in Post-Socialist Space (I) 2
355 Africa, South of the Sahara (I) 2
358 China and Southeast Asia (I) 2
548 Problems in the Geography of Latin America (A) 4
549 Historical Geography of Western Europe (A) 4
*553 Russia and the CIS: Problems in Human Geography (A) 4

Group V. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems

170 Our Digital Globe: An Overview of GIScience and its Technology (E) 1 or 2
351 Elementary Photogrammetry (I) 2
370 Introduction to Cartography (I) 1
377 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (I) 2
570 Problems in Cartography (A) 4
572 Graphic Design in Cartography II (A) 2
574 Cartographic Methods in Research (A) 4
575 Animated and Web-based Mapping (I) 2
576 Map Transformations and Coordinate Systems (A) 3
578 GIS Applications (D) 2
579 GIS and Spatial Analysis (D) 2

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