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 Code Course Title
GGR1105H
Human Geography Core Course
GGR1110H Issues in Geographic Thought and Practice
GGR1200H
Physical Geography Core Course

Research Methods Courses

Course Code Course Title
GGR1111H
Social Research Methods
JPG1120H Advanced Qualitative Research: Methodology and Epistemological Foundations for Planning and Geography
JPG1130H Qualitative Data Analysis: Coding, Interpreting, and Writing Qualitative Research
JPG1170H Statistical Testing and Analysis
GGR1218H Quantitative, Open-Source Methods in Physical Geography Research
JPG1400H Advanced Quantitative Methods

Individual Topics Courses

Course Code Course Title
GGR1149H
Readings in Selected Topics
GGR1149Y Readings in Selected Topics
GGR2149H
Readings in Selected Topics
GGR2149Y Readings in Selected Topics
GGR2150H
Advanced Seminar in Selected Topics
GGR2150Y Advanced Seminar in Selected Topics
JPG2150H
Advanced Seminars in Selected Topics
GGR2151H Advanced Seminars in Selected Topics II
JPG2151H Advanced Seminars in Selected Topics II

Environmental and Resource Geography

Course Code Course Title
GGR1404H Global Warming
JPG1404H Issues in Global Warming
GGR1407H
Efficient Use of Energy (exclusion: GGR347H1)
GGR1408H
Carbon-Free Energy (exclusions: GGR1406H, GGR348H1)
GGR1411H Nature and Justice in the Anthropocene
GGR1422H The Geography of Urban Air Pollution
JGE1425H
Livelihoods, Poverty, and Environment in the Developing Countries
JPG1426H
Natural Resources, Difference, and Conflict
JPG1428H Greening the City: Urban Environmental Planning and Management
JPG1429H
Political Ecology of Food and Agriculture
FOR1610H Sustainable Forest Management and Certification (exclusion: JFG1610H)

Geographical Information Analysis

Course Code Course Title
JPG1906H Geographic Information Systems
JPG1909H Advanced Space-Time Data Analysis and Visualization
GGR1911H Remote Sensing (exclusions: GGR337H1, GGR437H1, GGR1912H)
JPG1914H Geographic Information Systems Research Project (exclusion: GGR462H1)
GGR1916H Remote Sensing of Vegetation Traits and Function (exclusion: GGR414H1S)
GGR1921H Land/Geographic Information Systems

Historical, Social, and Cultural Geography

Course Code Course Title
JPG1503H
Space, Time, Revolution
JPG1506H
State/Space/Difference: Understanding the New Social Geography of the State
JPG1511H The Commons: Geography, Planning, Politics
JPG1520H
Contested Geographies of Class-Race Formations
JPG1522H Production of Space: Aesthetics, Technology, Politics
GGR1705H Historical Geographies of Modernity
JPG1706H
Violence and Security
JPG1805H
Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Gender
GGR1807H Geographies of Postcoloniality and Development: Exploring the ‘Infrastructure Turn’
JPG1809H Spaces of Work: Value, Identity, Agency, Justice
JPG1812Y Planning for Change: Community Development in Practice
JPG1813H Social Planning and Policy
JPG1815H
Political Economy, the Body, and Health
JPG1816H Geographies of Secularism and Islam
JPG1817H Geographies of Drug Use: History, Power, and Space
JPG1818H The Geography and Planning of Climate Action and Activism
GGR1821H China Development Seminar
GGR1822H Queer Geographies
JPG1825H Black Geographies of the Atlantic
JPG1828H Place and Indigenous Research
JPG1830H Utopia/Dystopia
GGR1832H Geographies of Decolonization and Liberation
JPG1835H Anti-Colonial Planning: Theory and Practice

Physical Geography

Course Code Course Title
GGR1215H Advanced Watershed Hydroecology (exclusion: GGR413H1)
GGR1216H Advanced Biogeochemical Processes (exclusion: GGR406H1)
GGR1217H The Climate of the Arctic (exclusion: GGR484H1)
GGR1302H Advanced Hydrology and Water Quality (exclusion: GGR407H1)
GGR1315H The Cryosphere (exclusion: GGR317H1)

Urban and Economic Geography

Course Code Course Title
JPG1502H Global Urbanism and Cities of the Global South
JPG1504H Institutionalism and Cities: Space, Governance, Property and Power
JPG1507H Housing Markets and Housing Policy Analysis
JPG1512H Place, Politics, and the Urban
JPG1513H Toronto Urban Landscapes: Planning, Politics, and Development
JPG1516H Urban Problems
JPG1518H Sustainability and Urban Communities
JPG1554H Transportation and Urban Form
JPG1558H The History and Geography of Cycles and Cycling
JPG1605H The Post-Industrial City
JGE1609H Cities, Industry, and the Environment
GGR1610H Geography of Finance and Financial Crisis
JPG1615H Planning and the Social Economy
JPG1616H The Cultural Economy
JPG1617H Organization of Economies and Cities
JPG1621H Innovation and Governance
JPG1660H Regional Dynamics
JPG1670H Regional Economic Analysis
JPG1814H Cities and Immigrants
JPG1820H Disability, Ableism, and Place
GGR1825H Black Economic Geographies