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Geographic Information Science

This certificate provides professionals with the skills needed to utilize spatial analytic tools, geogrpahic data visualization techniques, spatial programming, and geographic information and image processing software. It emphasizes the application of GIScience in urban and regional planning, economic development, environmental assessment, cartography, remote sensing and spatial software development.

Within the Master's degree framework, the following 18 hours must be completed to receive this concentration:

Prequisite Courses

• GEO 603 —Understanding GIS or the following undergraduate courses:
• GEO 121—Introduction to GIScience
• GEO 321—Cartography and GIS
• GEO 322—Research Methods
• GEO 323—Remote Sensing

Required Core Courses (15 hours)

• GEO 520—Advanced Remote Sensing-Imaging
• GEO 521—Advanced Cartography
• GEO 613—Advanced Geographic Information Systems
• GEO 614—GIS Programming, Design, and Application
• GEO 620—Spatial Analysis

Elective Courses (3 hours)

• GEO 622—GIS Applications in Urban Planning
• GEO 623—Seminar in Geographic Information Science
• BIO 522—Landscape Ecology

*Additional elective courses must be approved by the Director of Graduate Studies.

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