Geography and Planning: Geography MA, MSc, PhD Courses

The following graduate courses will be available on demand and subject to faculty resources. Not all courses are given every year, and some members of the graduate faculty are on research leave. Please consult the departmental graduate office. The 2000-level courses are normally open to PhD students only.

Core Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
Human Geography Core Course
GGR1110HGeographic Thought and Practice
Physical Geography Core Course

Research Methods Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
Social Research Methods
JPG1120HAdvanced Qualitative Research: Methodology and Epistemological Foundations for Planning and Geography
JPG1130HQualitative Data Analysis: Coding, Interpreting, and Writing Qualitative Research
JPG1170HStatistical Testing and Analysis
GGR1218HQuantitative, Open-Source Methods in Physical Geography Research
JPG1400HAdvanced Quantitative Methods

Individual Topics Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
Readings in Selected Topics
GGR1149YReadings in Selected Topics
Readings in Selected Topics
GGR2149YReadings in Selected Topics
Advanced Seminar in Selected Topics
GGR2150YAdvanced Seminar in Selected Topics
Advanced Seminars in Selected Topics
GGR2151HAdvanced Seminars in Selected Topics II
JPG2151HAdvanced Seminars in Selected Topics II

Environmental and Resource Geography

Course CodeCourse Title
GGR1404HGlobal Warming
JPG1404HIssues in Global Warming
Energy Efficiency and Beyond
Carbon-Free Energy
GGR1411HNature and Justice in the Anthropocene
GGR1422HThe Geography of Urban Air Pollution
Livelihoods, Poverty, and Environment in the Global South
Natural Resources, Difference, and Conflict
JPG1428HGreening the City: Urban Environmental Planning and Management
Political Ecology of Food and Agriculture
FOR1610HSustainable Forest Management and Certification

Geographical Information Analysis

Course CodeCourse Title
JPG1906HGeographic Information Systems
JPG1909HAdvanced Space-Time Data Analysis and Visualization
GGR1911HRemote Sensing
GGR1912HAdvanced Remote Sensing
JPG1914HGeographic Information Systems Research Project
GGR1916HRemote Sensing of Vegetation Traits and Function
GGR1921HLand/Geographic Information Systems

Historical, Social, and Cultural Geography

Course CodeCourse Title
Space, Time, Revolution
State/Space/Difference: Understanding the New Social Geography of the State
JPG1511HGoverning the Environmental Commons
Contested Geographies of Class-Race Formations
JPG1522HProduction of Space: Aesthetics, Technology, Politics
GGR1705HHistorical Geographies of Modernity
Violence and Security
Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Gender
GGR1807HGeographies of Postcoloniality and Development: Exploring the ‘Infrastructure Turn’
JPG1809HSpaces of Work: Value, Identity, Agency, Justice
JPG1812YPlanning for Change: Community Development in Practice
JPG1813HSocial Planning and Policy
Political Economy, the Body, and Health
JPG1816HGeographies of Secularism, and Islam and Gender
JPG1817HGeographies of Drug Use: History, Power, and Space
JPG1818HClimate Action and Activism
GGR1821HChina Development Seminar
GGR1822HQueer Geographies
JPG1825HBlack Geographies of the Atlantic
JPG1828HPlace and Indigenous Research
JPG1830HUtopia/Dystopia
GGR1832HGeographies of Decolonization and Liberation
JPG1835HAnti-Colonial Planning: Theory and Practice

Physical Geography

Course CodeCourse Title
GGR1215HAdvanced Watershed Hydroecology
GGR1216HAdvanced Biogeochemical Processes
GGR1217HThe Climate of the Arctic
GGR1302HAdvanced Hydrology and Water Quality
GGR1315HThe Cryosphere: Canada’s Frozen Environments

Urban and Economic Geography

Course CodeCourse Title
JPG1502HGlobal Urbanism and Cities of the Global South
JPG1504HInstitutionalism and Cities: Space, Governance, Property and Power
JPG1507HHousing Policy and Planning
JPG1512HPlace, Politics, and the Urban
JPG1513HToronto Urban Landscapes: Planning, Politics, and Development
JPG1516HUrban Problems
JPG1518HSustainability and Urban Communities
JPG1554HTransportation and Urban Form
JPG1558HThe History and Geography of Cycles and Cycling
JPG1605HThe Post-Industrial City
JGE1609HCities, Industry, and the Environment
GGR1610HGeography of Finance and Financial Crisis
JPG1615HPlanning and the Social Economy
JPG1616HThe Cultural Economy
JPG1617HOrganization of Economies and Cities
JPG1621HInnovation and Governance
JPG1660HRegional Dynamics
JPG1670HRegional Economic Analysis
JPG1814HCities and Immigrants
JPG1820HDisability, Ableism, and Place
GGR1825HBlack Economic Geographies