We will have the following three new exciting courses in Geography and Environmental Science given in the fall 2025. Keep these in mind when registering!!

Geographies of Disability and Mobility Justice
GEOG 30617
Tuesday, Friday 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Instructor: Rose Moulton

Issues of disability and mobility are increasingly featured in popular media, public policy debates, and representations of everyday lives. Yet, disabled people remain underrepresented, and disability remain under-examined as a normal aspect of human society. For human geographers, interested in spatial patterns and processes, disability and mobility raise important questions of justice and access. This course provides students with an introduction to what geographical research and practice have to say about disability and mobility. Approaching disability and mobility geographies as an interdisciplinary field spanning geography, urban studies, public health and sociology, the course examines themes such as: accessibility and urban and regional planning; transportation justice; accessibility as social justice; geographies of power; disablement; disability in the popular imaginary. The course critically considers the limitations of discussions that frame disabled people and disability through notions of abnormality and deficiency.

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Political Geography
GEOG 24400
Tuesday, Thursday 5:30 - 6:45 pm
Instructor: Meraz Mostafa

In this course, we will use the various tools and insights of political geography to analyze and evaluate a myriad of economic, political, social, ecological and cultural crises of the 21st century. Instead of focusing on breadth, this course will take a deep dive into a handful of case studies that we as a class will ultimately decide upon in the first couple weeks of the semester. These may include but are not limited to civil unrest, wars, political movements, etc. as they manifest at different scales. The purpose of this course is to demonstrate to students how political geography can be used to help explicate the world around us. Students are expected to come to each class prepared and ready to discuss with their peers. 

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Green Roofs
PGEOG 38364
Friday 11:30 am – 2:20 pm
Instructor: Professor Allan Frei

Green Roofs are comprised of vegetation that covers parts of building roofs for the purposes of keeping temperatures cool and of absorbing rain during storms to prevent flooding; they also provide other benefits such as increased biodiversity. They are an example of Nature Based Solutions to climate change. In this course students will learn some techniques in environmental field work in the context of studying the energy and water balances of Green Roofs. The learning experience includes skills such as automated instrument maintenance, manual field measurements, experimental design, development and employment of observation protocols, transcription and quality control of data, and data analysis. We will work on a Green Roof facility managed by the Newtown Creek Alliance, located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. There are also reading and writing assignments. On days when the weather prevents outdoor work, we will meet either indoors at the Greenpoint site, or on zoom. 

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SEAC 2025, Climate Change, Sustainability and Geography
Instructors: Vida Vanchan (SUNY Buffalo State University), Michitake Aso (SUNY Albany), and Peter Marcotullio (CUNY Hunter College)

SEAC 2025, Climate Change, Sustainability and Geography, examines environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability in Southeast Asia. Participants will learn about these dimensions with a close examination of their contributing factors, challenges, adaptation and mitigation strategies and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The course is open to all students in CUNY and SUNY, grad and undergrad, regardless of discipline. More information at https://www.sunycunysoutheastasiaconsortium.org/fall-2025-course