UMBC at The Universities at Shady Grove

GIS Certificate

Consisting of five courses (15 credits), the Professional Graduate Certificate in GIS is designed to provide students with a set of core technical and analytical tools which reflect the technical interdependence of the GIS career field. Students will be able to earn this certificate first and then choose to transfer all of the credits into the M.P.S. program.

Required 12 Credit Core (3 credits per course unless otherwise noted)

Advanced Seminar in GIS [3]

GIS Database and System Design I [3]

GIS Application Development I [3]

Professional Seminar on the Geospatial Technologies [1 credit to be taken three times]

Required 3 Credits of Elective (choose one)

Geoprocessing and Spatial Analysis [3]

GIS Database and System Design II [3]

GIS Application Development II [3]

Data Acquisition and Interoperability [3]

Advanced GIS Editing Techniques [3]

Spatial Statistics [3]

GIS Modeling Techniques [3]

Law and Ethics in the Science Professions [3]

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