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Click here to see a complete list of all departmental courses and course descriptions from the undergraduate bulletin.
Click here to see a complete list of all currently offered courses, including times and locations, from the University online course catalog. First, choose the semester. Then, from the dropdown menu, choose the major (Geography and Urban Studies OR Environmental Studies).
Course scheduling information
Courses we generally offer every semester
0821 Digital Mapping
0831 Global Cities
0842 Sustainable Environments
0861 Urban Dynamics
0867 World Regions & Cultures
1051 Environment & Society
1052 Intro to Physical Environment
2073 African Development
2074 South & East Asia
3062 Fundamentals of GIS
4085 Internship (GUS and ES)
4197 Research Methods
4198 Senior Seminar (GUS)
4198 Senior Seminar (ES)
Courses we generally offer at least once every year
0862 Development and Globalization
0866 World Affairs
1021 Urban Society: Race Class
1025 World Urban Patterns
2014 Urban Geography
2021 Philadelphia Neighborhoods
2031 Economic Geography
2051 Urban Environments
2071 Geography of US & Canada
3001 Images of the City in Popular Culture
3025 Urban Crime Patterns
3051 Environmental Policy Issues
3052 Environmental Problems in Asia
3061 Fundamentals of Cartography
3073 Geography of Travel and Tourism
3096 Urban Policy Analysis
3097 Environment and Development
3161 Statistics for Urban and Spatial Analysis
4013 Drugs in Urban Society
4014 Urban Social Geography
4015 Geographic Basis of Land-Use Planning
4018 Economic Development Planning for Cities
4019 Community Development Workshop
4044 Urban Housing
4051 Hazards Geography
4056 Political Ecology
4061 Cartographic Production
4065 Applications in G.I.S.
4071 Medical Geography
4075 Comparative Regional Development
4096 Problems of Environmental Quality
Courses we generally offer at least once every two years
2032 Urban Systems in a Global Economy
3013 African-Americans in Philadelphia
3054 Energy, Resources and Conservation
4021 International Urbanization
4097 Gender, Race, Class and the City
Other courses
117X are 2-credit special topics courses. The list below includes recently offered courses in this rubric. At least six 117X courses are offered every semester.
Black Males in the City
Exploring the World Through Independent Travel
Exploring Urban Literacy
Green Jobs
Greening Philadelphia
Hip-Hop
Metropolitan Ecology: Rebuilding American Cities
Philadelphia: Past, Present and Future
The Finance of Community Economic Development
Urban Transportation
Youth Violence in Urban Areas
3-credit advanced special topics are offered regularly with courses number 3000 or 4000. Recent topics have included:
Census Geography with GIS (offered every year)
New Orleans: Disaster and Recovery (offered every year)
Gender and Development