GEOG 458
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.
Courses
Courses taught at UW Geography. Most graduate and upper-level course archives are open on GitHub. Syllabi available on request.
University of Washington · 2019—present
GEOG 328
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.
GEOG 360
GIS and Mapping
- Autumn 2025
- Autumn 2024
Earlier offerings: 2019F · 2021F/W · 2022F
Undergraduate introduction to GIS thinking and cartographic practice.
GEOG 560
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.
GEOG 521
Research Seminar: Critical GIS
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2025
- Spring 2024
Graduate seminar on the social, ethical, and political dimensions of geographic information systems.
GEOG 497
Tutorial in Geography
- Spring 2025
- Winter 2025
- Autumn 2024
- Spring 2024
- Winter 2024
- Autumn 2023
Independent advanced study tailored to individual student research projects.
GEOG 495 / 428
Special Topics — Geospatial Artificial Intelligence
- Summer 2026
Earlier offerings: Web and Mobile GIS — 2021F, 2022F, Summer 2025
Hands-on course on integrating machine learning, deep learning, and large language models into spatial analysis. Students work with real-world datasets (housing inequality, algorithmic bias) while reading the ethics and political stakes of the technology. Course code is being updated from GEOG 495 to GEOG 428.
GEOG 595
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).
Oregon State University · 2016—19
GEOG 370
Cartography
2018 Winter
GEOG 371 / e371
GEOG 571
Advanced Web Mapping
2017 Winter
GEOG 4/572
Ohio State University · 2014—15
GEOG 5220
Fundamentals of GIS
2015 Summer