Course variations

Course summary

This program aims to study the urban landscapes, politics, and processes to broader struggles for racial and gender equality, social justice, and political transformation. Through projects that range from constructing urban geographies of memory to deconstructing new spatial strategies of refugee containment in settler societies, Syracuse geographers draw on a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, particularly social theory, to interrogate the production of urban spaces and experiences. With connections to historical, feminist, cultural, and Marxist geographies, urban geographers in this research cluster focus their scholarship and teaching on North America, Europe, southern Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. In doing so, they pay particular attention to the ways that gender, class, and race/ethnicity are drawn into the creation and negotiation of the urban built environment and social systems.

Program modules

The modules are GEO 103 America and the Global Environment, GEO 155 The Natural Environment, GEO 171 Human Geographies, GEO 381 Cartographic Design, GEO 383 Geographic Information Systems, GEO 386 Quantitative Geographic Analysis, GEO 482 Environmental Remote Sensing, GEO 491 Senior Seminar in Geography, GEO 219 American Diversity and Unity (honors), GEO 272 World Cultures, GEO 273 World Political Economy, GEO 311 New North Americas, GEO 313 United States, GEO 353 Environmental Justice, GEO 362 The European City, GEO 363 Cities of North America, GEO 367 Gendered Geographies of Globalization and Development, GEO 372 Political Geography, GEO 400 Food: A Critical Geography, GEO 440 Race and Space, GEO 463 Geographies of Homelessness, GEO 500 Borders in Syracuse, GEO 500 Geography of Memory, GEO 500 Space and Sexuality, GEO 558 Sustainable Development, GEO 563 The Urban Condition: Life and Struggle in the Contested City, GEO 564 Urban Historical Geography, GEO 572 Landscape Interpretation, GEO 573 Geography of Capital, GEO 576 Gender, Space, and Place, plus, Appropriate Topics Courses (GEO 200, 300, 400, 500).

Entry requirement for international students

Students must demonstrate sufficient academic preparation to achieve success in their studies at Syracuse University; the ability to pay for their education here; and proficiency in the English language. International students must have obtained a minimum TOEFL score of 85 or minimum IELTS score of 6.5.

Qualification

Bachelor degree

Awarding body

Syracuse University

Department name

Maxwell School, Department of Geography