GEOG 178Conservation Geography Field and Professional Practices
Geography · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to senior Geography and Geography/Environmental Studies majors. Enrollment by application. Field focus on California vegetation and its response to current and future climate change. Students learn to collect field data, and to conduct field vegetation research. Students learn to work as professional research consultants in teams, develop consulting research proposals, consultant assessment reports, and present those reports orally and in written format to clients. Field trips to Mojave Desert, Great Basin Desert, pinyon pine woodland, pine-fire forest, alpine treeline, White Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and coastal pine and redwood forests.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.