Courses

Advanced Digital Geographies

• Winter 2026
• Winter 2024
• Winter 2023

Earlier offerings: 2020Sp · 2021W · 2022Sp

Advanced course on digital geographies, geospatial big data, and the politics of data-intensive society.

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Web-Based Geographic Information Systems

• Autumn 2025
• Winter 2025
• Summer 2024
• Autumn 2023
• Summer 2023

Hands-on undergraduate course on building publishable web maps with HTML, JavaScript, and modern mapping libraries.

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GIS and Mapping

• Autumn 2025
• Autumn 2024

Earlier offerings: 2019F · 2021F/W · 2022F

Undergraduate introduction to GIS thinking and cartographic practice.

Principles of GIS Mapping

• Autumn 2025
• Autumn 2024

Earlier offerings: 2019F · 2021F/W · 2022F

Graduate-level introduction to GIS principles, cartographic design, and spatial analysis.

Research Seminar: Critical GIS

• Spring 2025
• Spring 2024

Graduate seminar on the social, ethical, and political dimensions of geographic information systems.

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Tutorial in Geography

• Spring 2025
• Winter 2025
• Autumn 2024
• Spring 2024
• Winter 2024
• Autumn 2023

Independent advanced study tailored to individual student research projects.

Special Topics

• Summer 2025

Earlier offerings: Web and Mobile GIS — 2021F, 2022F

Rotating topics in advanced GIS practice. Past iterations: Web and Mobile GIS — designing and deploying interactive maps with modern open-source stacks.

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Special Topics in Geography

• Spring 2023

Earlier offerings: Humanistic GIS — 2023Sp · Digital GeoHumanities — 2020W, 2021Sp, 2022W

Graduate seminar on rotating themes. Past iterations: Humanistic GIS (care ethics, place, post-human cartography) and Digital GeoHumanities (computational reading of place).

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