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Geography
Environment, Economy and Sustainability Track
How do people interact with their environment? How can both natural and urban landscapes promote equity and transformative structural changes in our society? Can data and technology be used to help us design the future of cities and urban development? These are questions that defined my studies in the Geography department.
Courses
Each course has at least one assignment linked that I am particularly proud of in terms of skills I've built or content I've learned about
GEOG 462
462 examines the theory and application of geographic information systems (GIS). The course explores practical GIS applications related to the relationships between nature and society. Specifically, the course centers coastal concerns, including water, resource, and land management; settlement, sustainability and environmental protection; and the recreational and economic uses of coastal regions. This course allowed me to further hone my mapping skills, building upon what I learned in GEOG 360 and URBDP 404, and explore inherently political nature of mapping in the context of coastal management and power relations between human and natural stakeholders.
Maps and Health
GEOG 381
This course brings together two different aspects of geographic inquiry: critical cartography and health geography. Health geography research and global health projects -- involving disease distribution and dispersion, disease ecology, disease surveillance, the allocation of health resources, disaster response and interventions, and the administration of health care systems -- all use various forms of data and maps. I was able to put my GIS skills to the test by making my own map for the final atlas project where I used maps to explore how our social determinants of health (such as income) and the physical environments we live in can impact our life expectancy.
Coastal GIS
GIS and Mapping
GEOG 360
This class gave an introduction to mapping and geographic information systems. Our labs gave us hands-on opportunities for us to create maps using QGIS and ArcGIS. The lab linked below gave us a deeper understanding of several types of spatial analysis functions within QGIS including spatial selection, buffering, and overlay operations.
Abolition Geographies
GEOG 495B
Abolition is not only about slavery; it has always been about freedom. In this class, we explored abolition geographies – radical place-making to create community well-being that does not rely on harming others. We learned about abolitionist activism and policies in Seattle and other Coast Salish communities. I've linked a paper below that I'm really proud of: it analyzes how Seattle based COVID-19 mutual aid networks are built on a foundation of reciprocity and desire-centered frameworks to organize through crises and build solidarity across struggles
Research Seminar: Social and Population Geography
GEOG 542
This class explores interdisciplinary work in urban politics, critical poverty theory and feminist transnational modes of analysis. We examined the power and transformative potential of a diverse range of urban politics and transnational struggles against poverty and inequality. We explored poverty knowledge as grounded in relational perspectives that highlighted the adversarial relationship of poverty to privilege, as well as the possibility for alliances across difference.
Explanation And Understanding In Geography
This course covered the beginning steps in the research process and methods. We developed our research and writing skills in preparation for future research methods classes and independent research. The course culminated in a literature review on a topic of our choosing.
GEOG 315
Citizenship Acts to Challenge Poverty
Honors 231
Over the course of this quarter our class has been engaged in a project of public and personal re-education about the ways in which we speak, engage, and think about homelessness in the United States. We’ve been slowly unlearning and deconstructing what is fed to us about the types of people and scenarios that allow people to experience homelessness while simultaneously partnering with Real Change to construct the Portraits for Change exhibit which promotes the project of public re-education and cultural disruption.
Geographies of the Developing World
GEOG 335
Characteristics and causes, external and internal, of Third World development and obstacles to that development. We paid special attention to demographic and agricultural patterns, resource development, industrialization and urbanization, drawing on specific case studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Geography Of The World Economy
GEOG 208
Examines the relationship between the globalization of economic activity and regional development. Topics include international trade, colonialism, industrial capitalism, advanced capitalism, and the globalization of labor markets.
Geodemographics: Population, Diversity, And Place
GEOG 245
This class explored the geodemographic underpinnings of societal dynamics and the spatial diversity of United States populations. Topics included immigration policy, the concept of 'race' in the census, fertility and mortality differences, political redistricting, segregation, and internal migration of populations. We examined regional and local scales of variation using geodemographic techniques and GIS.
Digital Geographies
GEOG 258
We explored the use and societal impacts of contemporary digital spatial technologies and focused on internet mapping, handheld geographic technologies, location-based services, spatial applications of social media, the geoweb, and traditional GIS. We developed hands-on experience using online digital spatial tools for geovisual representation, and skills for evaluation/critique of digital data and maps
Geography of Environmental Justice
GEOG 272
This course used political ecology and cultural geography frameworks to think through social constructions of nature: where we live, where we play, and where we work. Looks at the role of markers of difference (gender, race, nationality) in debates around equity and justice