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GEOG 3Cultural Geography

Geography · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Introduction to cultural geography of modern world, with examination of key concepts of space, place, and landscape as these have shaped and been shaped by connections between societies and their natural environments. Examples from variety of landscapes and places since 1800 and especially from Los Angeles region.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

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.

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GEOG 3

  • GEOG 143Contemporary Black Geographies
  • GEOG 145Slavery and Human Trafficking
  • GEOG M153Transportation Geography

3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.