Course ID: | GEOG 4370E/6370E. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Introduction to Geographic Information Science |
Course Description: | Fundamentals of geographic information science (GIS) concepts
and techniques, and to foster students' geographical thinking
in a GIS environment. Students will exercise concepts and
techniques through hands-on practices in ArcGIS, a leading GIS
software package. |
Oasis Title: | Introduction to GIS |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in GEOG 4370 or GEOG 6370 |
Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Each topic has a dedicated module consisting of a PPT file of
lecture notes, a recorded teaching video, a lab handout, a
quiz, and a checklist of items to be completed. Review
presentations and final project presentations are to be recorded
by students with instructor-provided tools and resources. Each
student is expected to have a computer running a windows
operating system. A student version of ArcGIS will be provided
to the student for installation. |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Students are expected to:
1. gain an understanding in modeling geographic phenomena in
digital environments
2. compile, organize, analyze, and visualize geographic
information with GIS software
3. be familiar with the leading GIS software ArcGIS
4. be able to develop a GIS project for a real world problem |
Topical Outline: | 1. Introduction to basic concepts
2. Map projection and coordinate system
3. Digital representations
4. Input vector data and digitize
5. Georeferencing
6. Vector data analysis
7. Raster date input
8. Raster data analysis |