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Doctoral

Geography MA, CPhil, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles College of Letters and Science 70 courses

About This Program

The department offers the PhD degree in Geography (an MA degree may be earned in the process of completing PhD requirements). Student research projects are conducted in collaboration with a faculty adviser and advisory committee. Graduate students work in most major areas of geography and on projects around the world. Graduate alumni of the department have teaching positions at many leading universities in the U.S. and abroad.

Degree Requirements

Geography Graduate Courses

Graduate courses UCLA's General Catalog lists for this department. This is not a degree plan; requirements are set by the program.

Code Course Title Credits
GEOG 200A History and Structure of Modern Geography 4
GEOG 200B Seminar: Geographical Inquiry 1
GEOG 201 Research Design in Geography 4
GEOG 202 Qualitative Methods and Methodology 4
GEOG 204 Statistical Methods for Geographic Research 4
GEOG 208 Geographic Data Visualization and Analysis 4
GEOG 211 Remote Sensing of Environment 4
GEOG 212 Physical, Mathematical, and Computational Basis of Remote Sensing 5
GEOG 214 Advanced Projects in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/Remote Sensing 4
GEOG 215 Advanced Field and Laboratory Methods in Biophysical Geography 4
GEOG 216 Advanced Field Analysis: Biogeography 8
GEOG 218 Advanced Medical Geography 4
GEOG 235 Seminar: Social Geography 4
GEOG 236 Seminar: Cultural Geography 4
GEOG 237 Seminar: Historical Geography 4
GEOG 238 Seminar: Urban Geography 4
GEOG 240 Seminar: Geographic Thought 4
GEOG 245 Advanced Political Geography: Geopolitics 4
GEOG 247 Advanced Topics in Cultural Geography 4
GEOG 248 Advanced Topics in Economic Geography 4
GEOG 249 Advanced Population Geography 4
GEOG 250 Advanced Topics in Urban Geography 4
GEOG 255 Physical Basis of Geography 4
GEOG 256 Regional Climate and Terrestrial Surface Processes 4
GEOG 257 Land Degradation 4
GEOG 258 Human Security and Environmental Change 4
GEOG 260 Evolution, Ecology, Environmentalism, and Roots of Modern American Geography 4
GEOG 271 Seminar: Climatology 4
GEOG 272 Seminar: Biogeography 4
GEOG 274 Seminar: Humid Tropics 4
GEOG 277 Coastal Geography 4
GEOG 280 Advanced Climatology 4
GEOG 281 Advanced Topics in Biogeography 4
GEOG 283 Advanced Topics in Geomorphology 4
GEOG 286 Advanced Topics in Environmental Change 4
GEOG 290 South America 4
GEOG 291 Geography of Contemporary China 4
GEOG 298 Advanced Regional Geography: Selected Regions 4
GEOG 299A Research Group Seminars: Issues in Human Geography 1
GEOG 299B Research Group Seminars: Issues in Biophysical Geography 1
GEOG 299C Cultural Geography Methods Workshop 1
GEOG 299D Political Geography Working Group 1
GEOG 299E Agriculture and Food Studies Colloquium 1
GEOG 401 Applied Geospatial Data Science 4
GEOG 410 Geospatial Databases and Data Management 4
GEOG 411 Geospatial Imagery Analysis 4
GEOG 412 Programming for Geospatial Data Science I 4
GEOG 413 Applied Geospatial Statistics 4
GEOG 414 Programming for Geospatial Data Science II 4
GEOG 415 Geospatial Data Science Futures 4
GEOG 495 Teaching College Geography 2
GEOG 498 Capstone I: Geospatial Research Methods 4
GEOG 499 Capstone II: Geospatial Capstone Project 4
GEOG 596 Directed Individual Study or Research 2 to 8
GEOG 597 Preparation for PhD Qualifying Examinations 2 to 8
GEOG 598 Research for and Preparation of MA Thesis 2 to 8
GEOG 599 Research for and Preparation of PhD Dissertation 2 to 12
GEOG M205 Spatial Statistics 4
GEOG M206 Introduction to Biophysical Modeling of Land Surface Processes and Land/Atmosphere Interactions 4
GEOG M224 International Migration 4
GEOG M229A Development Theory 4
GEOG M229B Ecological Issues in Planning 4
GEOG M229C Resource-Based Development 4
GEOG M230A Theories of Regional Economic Development I 4
GEOG M230B Globalization and Regional Development 4
GEOG M265 Environmentalisms: Climate Dimensions and Politics Past, Present, Future 4
GEOG M270A Seminar: Climate Dynamics 2 to 4
GEOG M270B Seminar: Climate Dynamics 2 to 4
GEOG M270C Seminar: Climate Dynamics 2 to 4
GEOG M292 Seminar: Political Geography of Italy 4

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