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Globalization and Identity

This concentration is designed for students interested in how global economic and political change affects people’s access to wealth and power, and how it shapes their sense of self in an ever-changing world.

These classes prepare students to find domestic or international entry-level positions in human-development related jobs. Career areas include rural planning and economic development, political analysis, health care analysis and community development. Visit the Jobs in Geography page for more ideas.

Students who follow this concentration will:

1. Understand how global economic and political processes shape the spatial distribution of wealth and poverty, opportunities and constraints, and power and weakness

2. Understand how local, national and global economic, political and cultural forces create places, and either deepen or diminish place-based identities

3. Understand the varied terrains of resistance that emerge in conjunction with globalization

The Curriculum

I. LOWER DIVISION CORE COURSES (take all, 8 units)

• GEOG 203: Cultural Geography (3 units)
• GEOG 204: Global Environmental Systems (4 units)
• GEOG 205: Map Reading and Interpretation (1 unit)

II. UPPER DIVISION BREADTH COURSES (18-19 units)

• The Biophysical Environment (4 units)
• GEOG 360: Geomorphology (4)
• GEOG 365: Biogeography & Landscape Ecology (4)
• GEOG 370: Weather and Climate (4)
• GEOG 372: Global Climate Change: Past, Present, Future (4)
• GEOG 375: Natural Hazards (4)
• Geospatial Techniques (3-4 units)
• GEOG 380: Remote Sensing and Image Processing (4)
• GEOG 385: Cartographic Visualization (3)
• GEOG 387: Introduction to GIS (4)
• Regional Synthesis (4 units)
• GEOG 392: Latin America: Culture and Environment (4)
• GEOG 393: South Asia (4)
• GEOG 394: Africa, South of the Sahara (4)
• GEOG 396: Special Topics in Area Studies (4)
• Field Courses and Internship (2-3 units)
• GEOG 314AB: Field Experience, Northern California (1-2)
• GEOG 314C: Field Experience Beyond Northern California (2)
• GEOG 314D: Field Experience Abroad (2-3)
• GEOG 315: Field Methods in Geography (2)
• GEOG 499AB: Internship (2-4 units)
• Geographic Research and Synthesis (4 units)
• GEOG 490: Senior Seminar (4)

III. CONCENTRATION COURSES (15-6 units)

• GEOG 302: World Regional Geography (4)
• GEOG 320: Geopolitics (4)
• GEOG 322: Geog Perspectives on Intrntl Econ. Dvlpmnt (4)
• GEOG 335: Global Agricultural Systems and Issues (4)
• GEOG 338: Social Geography (3)
• GEOG 345: Resource Wars (4)
• GEOG 350: Urban Geography (4)

IV. SUPPORTING COURSES (8 units)

Suggested courses, with substitutions possible in consultation with an advisor

• ANTH352: Global Issues (4)
• ECON303: International Economics (4)
• ECON403: Seminar in Economic Development (4)
• POLS303: Intro to Comparative Government (4)
• POLS304: Introduction to International Relations (4)
• POLS452: Third World Political Systems (4)
• WGS385: Gender and Globalization (4)