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| Course ID: | GEOG 4385/6385-4385L/6385L. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. | | Course Title: | Community GIS (Service Learning) | Course
Description: | Introduces students to the ways GIS is used by city and state
agencies, non-profit organizations, and community groups. It
provides advanced instruction on collecting and storing
geospatial data and creating online maps for public
consumption. The course includes a required service-learning
component, providing GIS support for a group in the community,
and fulfills the university’s experiential learning requirement. | | Oasis Title: | Community GIS Service Learning | | Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or
teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives.
The course uses service-learning as the primary pedagogical tool
for teaching course objectives. Students will work on a
comprehensive project(s) and may be required to spend
considerable time outside the classroom. Students will be
engaged in the service-learning component for approximately 75-
100% of overall instructional time. | | Prerequisite: | GEOG 4370/6370-4370L/6370L or GEOG 4370E/6370E or GEOG 3510-3510L or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | The main objectives of this course are to increase students’
ability to use GIS to address questions related to planning,
economic development, and social equity. Students will improve
their ability to perform geospatial analysis, use common data
from a variety of public sources, and communicate the results
of their analysis through printed and online maps. They will
also increase their understanding of the ways GIS is used by a
variety of non-academic agencies and gain experience using GIS
in partnership with a range of community agencies. Students
will spend approximately 30 hours of the course conducting GIS-
based research in partnership with a community partner. More
specifically, after completing the course, students should be
able to:
• Work actively with non-academic organizations to develop
shared project goals, collaborate on developing data sources,
and preparing/presenting research results.
• Find publically available data from sources including the
U.S. Census, U.S. Geological Service, and local government
agencies.
• Develop new GIS data files where none are currently
available.
• Organize and share geospatial data within a research group
using file geodatabases.
• Increase their familiarity with both commercial and open
source GIS software.
• Comfortably use GIS to perform analysis on cadastral and
remote sensed data related to urban and environmental planning.
• Make use of a range of tools for developing online,
interactive maps, such as ESRI’s ArcMap Online, Leaflet, and
CartoDB.
• Understand the main principles of public participatory GIS
and open data initiatives.
• Identify the ways GIS is used by a range of groups, including
neighborhood organizations, law enforcement, and urban planners.
• Articulate distinctive elements of community-based research
and be able to apply them to a specific research project. | | Topical Outline: | • Defining community GIS and community engaged research
• Finding and using public data on communities and regions
• Reviewing the main principles of cartography and
geovisualization
• Using geodatabases to develop and share geospatial data
• Tools for creating online maps: ArcMap Online, CartoDB, and
Leaflet
• Public participatory GIS and the benefits of open data
• Applications of GIS: Housing, food systems, environmental
planning, policing, economic development
• Doing research with others: team members and community
partners | |
| Course ID: | GEOG 4385/6385-4385L/6385L. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. |
| Course Title: | Community GIS (Service Learning) |
Course
Description: | Introduces students to the ways GIS is used by city and state
agencies, non-profit organizations, and community groups. It
provides advanced instruction on collecting and storing
geospatial data and creating online maps for public
consumption. The course includes a required service-learning
component, providing GIS support for a group in the community,
and fulfills the university’s experiential learning requirement. |
| Oasis Title: | Community GIS Service Learning |
| Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or
teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives.
The course uses service-learning as the primary pedagogical tool
for teaching course objectives. Students will work on a
comprehensive project(s) and may be required to spend
considerable time outside the classroom. Students will be
engaged in the service-learning component for approximately 75-
100% of overall instructional time. |
| Prerequisite: | GEOG 4370/6370-4370L/6370L or GEOG 4370E/6370E or GEOG 3510-3510L or permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
|
| Course Objectives: | The main objectives of this course are to increase students’
ability to use GIS to address questions related to planning,
economic development, and social equity. Students will improve
their ability to perform geospatial analysis, use common data
from a variety of public sources, and communicate the results
of their analysis through printed and online maps. They will
also increase their understanding of the ways GIS is used by a
variety of non-academic agencies and gain experience using GIS
in partnership with a range of community agencies. Students
will spend approximately 30 hours of the course conducting GIS-
based research in partnership with a community partner. More
specifically, after completing the course, students should be
able to:
• Work actively with non-academic organizations to develop
shared project goals, collaborate on developing data sources,
and preparing/presenting research results.
• Find publically available data from sources including the
U.S. Census, U.S. Geological Service, and local government
agencies.
• Develop new GIS data files where none are currently
available.
• Organize and share geospatial data within a research group
using file geodatabases.
• Increase their familiarity with both commercial and open
source GIS software.
• Comfortably use GIS to perform analysis on cadastral and
remote sensed data related to urban and environmental planning.
• Make use of a range of tools for developing online,
interactive maps, such as ESRI’s ArcMap Online, Leaflet, and
CartoDB.
• Understand the main principles of public participatory GIS
and open data initiatives.
• Identify the ways GIS is used by a range of groups, including
neighborhood organizations, law enforcement, and urban planners.
• Articulate distinctive elements of community-based research
and be able to apply them to a specific research project. |
| Topical Outline: | • Defining community GIS and community engaged research
• Finding and using public data on communities and regions
• Reviewing the main principles of cartography and
geovisualization
• Using geodatabases to develop and share geospatial data
• Tools for creating online maps: ArcMap Online, CartoDB, and
Leaflet
• Public participatory GIS and the benefits of open data
• Applications of GIS: Housing, food systems, environmental
planning, policing, economic development
• Doing research with others: team members and community
partners |
Syllabus:
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