Cultural Geography

Cultural Geography examines the relationship between people and their environments, and between power and place. This make include classes on cultural origins, meaning-making and movements, cultural ecology, perception and sense of place, cultural landscapes and landscape change.

The full catalog of courses we offer is listed here, and you will find many that fall under the track of cultural geography. However, some examples that are regularly offered by are faculty are:

GRG 302L. Landscapes and Cosmovision in Mesoamerica.

GRG 319: Geography of Latin America

GRG 320J. Environmental Justice

GRG 320M. Geography of Media 

GRG 320P. Political Geography 

GRG 320U. Urban Imaginaries

GRG 321F. Food in the Racialized City

GRG 321L. Archaeology of Climate Change 

GRG 321U. Race, Social Justice, and the City 

GRG 322D. Human Health and the Environment.

GRG 321D. Development and Social Movement in East and Southeast Asia 

GRG 322L. Geographies of Latin American to United States Migration 

GRG 322G. Politics of Protecting the Great Barrier Reef (study abroad)

GRG 322M. Maya Art and Architecture

GRG 324F. Race, Capitalism, and the Environment 

GRG 325E. The Healthy, Livable City 

GRG X26G. International Political Economy of Lower-Income Countries 

GRG 327. Geography of Former Soviet Union 

GRG 328E. Geography in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

GRG 328F. Black Geographies

GRG 328L. Asian Diaspora on Indigenous Lands 

GRG 330F. Geographies of International Development in Africa

GRG 331K. Nature, Society, and Adaptation.

GRG 334E. Children's Environmental Health 

GRG 334L. Vulnerability to Natural Hazards 

GRG 337. The Modern American City 

GRG 340D. Political Ecology of Globalization and Environmental Degradation

GRG 342C. Sustainable Development 

GRG 342S. Sustainability, Equity, and Health 

GRG 348E. Tourism and Place in the Global South 

GRG 350K. Geographies of Globalization 

GRG 356T.1. The Culture of Cities 

GRG X56T.5. Urban Publics

GRG 356T: Mapping Latin America 

GRG 368D. Enviro-Cultural Dynamics in Botswana 

All geography majors must also complete the core requirements in Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Qualitative and/or Quantitative Techniques.

Geography Faculty sub-committee

Faculty from across the university, including Anthropology, History, Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis, teach courses in Cultural Geography. Our in-departmental "Cultural Geography" sub-committee includes:

• Paul Adams
• Brenda Boonabaana
• Caroline Faria
• Tom Garrison
• Laurel Mei-Singh
• Rebecca Torres