This course meets the following General Education Abilities by accomplishing the
specific learning objectives listed below:

To increase students' abilities to think geographically
To increase students' understanding of urban geography 
To increase students' abilities to interpret information about urban influences on
   and within the world outside of cities
To increase students’ appreciation of the material inequality that exists within 
   most cities.  


This course meets the following General Education Abilities by accomplishing the
specific learning objectives listed below:

Communicate effectively through writing.  This is met by a series of writing 
assignments associated with supplemental reading and data analysis.
 
Communicate effectively through speech.  This is met by oral presentations, 
discussion leading, and classroom participation.

Computer Literacy is addressed through course administration, student-faculty 
electronic interaction, data analysis activities and assignments, and exposure to 
GIS technologies.
 
Critical Thinking is central to the learning objectives of this class, and are 
developed through homework assignments, lecture, classroom discussion, and inquiry-
based learning efforts.

Moral Reasoning (Ethics) is an important element of this course, as it considers 
ethical guidelines for use of geographic mappintg technologies and considers the 
role of mapping sciences in economic development and human welfare.   Moral 
reasoning is developed through lectures, writing assignments, classroom discussion, 
and inquiry-based learning activities.

Principles and techniques of extracting descriptive and metric information about the
environment from aerial photographs acquired in analog and digital forms.
Applications emphasize planimetric mapping and interpretation of physical and
cultural landscapes. A term project using the techniques is required.
 
Maps and Air Photos
Environmental Metrics
Fundamentals of Air Photo Interpretation
Scale and Measurement
Object Displacement and Parallax
Circular and Chromatic Aberrations
Black and white Air Photos
Natural Color Air Photos
Color Infrared Air Photos
Analog vs. Digital Technologies
Photogrammetric Mapping
Interpreting Terrain Features
Interpreting Cultural Features
Digital Orthophotoquads (DOQQs)
The Latest Technologies