GEOG 5People and Earth's Ecosystems
Geography · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Exploration of ways in which human activity impacts natural environment and how modification of environment can eventually have significant consequences for human activity. Examination, using case studies, of real environmental problems that confront us today.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Summer 2026
- Fall 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.
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.
GEOG 5
- GEOG 88GESeminar Sequence: Special Topics in Geography
- GEOG 109Biogeography of Plant and Animal Invasions
- GEOG 133Humid Tropics
- GEOG 247Advanced Topics in Cultural Geography
- GEOG 138Wildlife Conservation in Eastern and Southern Africa
- GEOG 147Environmental Politics and Policy
5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 6 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.