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Calendar Year
Term
Course #
Course Title
2026
Y
gs/geog 5010A
Seminar in Geographical Practice
The Seminar in Geographical Practice engages students with the breadth of geographical research through engagement with the Geography colloquium speakers. Students analyse the seminars and readings provided by the invited speakers with respect to concepts, methodology, and geographical practice.
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
F
gs/geog 5011A
Graduate Colloquium
Instructional Format: SEMR
2027
W
gs/geog 5011M
Graduate Colloquium
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
W
gs/geog 5011M
Graduate Colloquium
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): A. Bain
2027
W
gs/geog 5025M
Research Design and Formulation in Human Geography
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
W
gs/geog 5025M
Research Design and Formulation in Human Geography
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): J. Mensah
2026
W
gs/geog 5208M
Doctoral Seminar in Critical Human Geography
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): P. Wood
2027
W
gs/geog 5208M
Doctoral Seminar in Critical Human Geography
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
F
gs/geog 5209A
Masters Seminar in Critical Human Geography
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
W
gs/geog 5326M
Critical Political Ecologies
Explores how power and knowledge shape intertwined social and ecological relationships, drawing on theoretically-informed ethnographies and other empirical studies, with an emphasis on global south research.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): S. Gururani
2026
F
gs/geog 5355A
Political Geographies: Spaces of Territory, Identity and Power
Examines contemporary themes in political geography, focusing on the ways in which power and political processes are both shaped by and shape particular spaces, scales, networks, and other spatial relations. Prerequisites: graduate student standing or Instructor permission.
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
F
gs/geog 5370A
Urban Geographies: Space, Power & the City
This course explores the geographies of inequalities, state policies and civil society. We will review a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches that uncover the contested meaning of social policy and interrogate the nature of power in the city. Critical race theory, post-colonialism, and the legacies of imperial systems in the production of urban space are explored.
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
F
gs/geog 5375A
Economic Geographies: Capital, Labour and Space
Grounded in three interrelated foundations-dialectical materialist philosophy, historical materialist social theory, and political economy-Marxist theory forms an organic and coherent theoretical whole. This course provides an introduction to key ideas within the Marxist tradition. It is of interest to students in geography, environmental studies, sociology, political thought, international development, and other cognate fields. Crosslisted with ENVS 5475 and SOCI 6794.
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
W
gs/geog 5700M
The Making of Asian Studies: Critical Perspectives
Offers a historical examination of the multiple, overlapping processes through which Asian identities and regions were constituted. It will also examine new directions in Asian studies in an era of intensified global flows, transnationalism, and the presence of Asian diaspora in Canada and elsewhere.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): L. Hae
2026
W
gs/geog 5800M
Practical Methods in Physical Geography
Students work individually and collectively according to a customized syllabus which is oriented towards the accumulation of necessary skills for field, lab and computing research.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): J. Korosi
2027
W
gs/geog 5800M
Practical Methods in Physical Geography
Students work individually and collectively according to a customized syllabus which is oriented towards the accumulation of necessary skills for field, lab and computing research.
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
Y
gs/geog 6010A
M.A./M.Sc. Research Paper
Instructional Format: RESP
2026
W
gs/geog 6010M
M.A./M.Sc. Research Paper
Instructional Format: RESP
2027
W
gs/geog 6010M
M.A./M.Sc. Research Paper
Instructional Format: RESP
2026
F
gs/geog 6050A
M.A./M.Sc. Directed Reading Course
An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.
Instructional Format: DIRD
2027
W
gs/geog 6050M
M.A./M.Sc. Directed Reading Course
An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.
Instructional Format: DIRD
2026
W
gs/geog 6050M
M.A./M.Sc. Directed Reading Course
An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. This course may complement the reading required for the literature review of a Thesis or MRP, but will not in toto, constitute the reading required for the Thesis or MRP.
Instructional Format: DIRD
2026
F
gs/geog 6060A
Ph.D. Directed Reading Course
An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. A reading course will sometimes complement the reading undertaken for the comprehensive examination, but will not in toto constitute the reading required for that examination.
Instructional Format: DIRD
2027
W
gs/geog 6060M
Ph.D. Directed Reading Course
An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. A reading course will sometimes complement the reading undertaken for the comprehensive examination, but will not in toto constitute the reading required for that examination.
Instructional Format: DIRD
2026
W
gs/geog 6060M
Ph.D. Directed Reading Course
An independent directed reading course on a topic approved by the supervisory committee and the Graduate Program Director in Geography. A reading course will sometimes complement the reading undertaken for the comprehensive examination, but will not in toto constitute the reading required for that examination.
Instructional Format: DIRD
2027
W
gs/geog 6800M
Practical Methods in Physical Geography
Students work individually and collectively according to a customized syllabus which is oriented towards the accumulation of necessary skills for field, lab and computing research.
Instructional Format: SEMR
2026
W
gs/geog 6800M
Practical Methods in Physical Geography
Students work individually and collectively according to a customized syllabus which is oriented towards the accumulation of necessary skills for field, lab and computing research.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): J. Korosi
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