Course
Title |
Course
Descriptions |
Advanced
Seminar in Geographic Information Technology [3]
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This
course offers an in-depth review of geographic information
systems theory and practice and of the components of the
geospatial technology profession field. |
| GIS
Database and System Design I [3] |
This
course provides a comprehensive hands-on introduction to
database theory, concepts, and design for GIS professionals.
Students are introduced to the process of GIS database development:
data modeling, database design and database implementation.
Students also learn database diagramming such as UML, and
database query languages, such as SQL, within an enterprise
database environment.
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| GIS
Database and Systems Design II [3] |
This
course addresses advanced concepts, tools, and techniques
of GIS database design. This course also extends students
engagement with GIS database development: data modeling,
database design and database implementation processes.
|
| GIS
Application Development I [3] |
This
course provides students with a working knowledge of desktop
GIS application development by enabling students to understand
the logic and structures of programming languages, most
notably Visual Basic .NET. A feature of this course is students'
ability to conduct applications needs assessments, diagram
application logic, develop basic applications, and deploy
desktop applications within an enterprise GIS.
|
| GIS
Application Development II [3] |
The
objective of this course is to provide students with a working
knowledge of Web-based programming. The course enables students
to understand the logic and structures of coding languages,
most notably JAVA. A feature of the course is students'
ability to conduct applications needs assessments, diagram
application logic, develop basic applications, and deploy
Web-based applications with an enterprise GIS.
|
| Spatial
Statistics [3] |
This
course emphasizes exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) and
includes: creating and linking statistical graphics; brushing,
scatter plots, and maps; basic and advanced multivariate
ESDA; rate mapping and smoothing; contiguity - and distance-based
spatial weights; spatially lagged variables; global and
local spatial autocorrelation; bivariate spatial autocorrelation;
spatial regression methods; Moran and LISA statistics. Applications
of methods available in the ArcMap Spatial Statistics
toolbox, including pattern and cluster analysis, is included,
in addition to the spatial analysis methods explored in
the public domain GeoDa software.
|
| GIS
Modeling Techniques [3] |
This
course addresses the concepts, tools, and techniques of
GIS modeling, and presents modeling concepts and theory
as well as provides opportunities for hands-on model design,
construction, and application. Special attention is given
to model calibration and validation.
|
| Geoprocessing
& Spatial Analysis [3] |
This
advanced level course covers the manipulation and analysis
of geospatial data, and focuses on automated approaches
to geographic feature overlay, feature selection and analysis,
topology processing, raster processing, and data conversion.
This course also addresses the role of geoprocessing and
spatial analysis in the definition, management, and analysis
of information used to form decisions.
|
| GIS
Data Acquisition and Interoperability [3] |
This
course addresses issues of organizational data planning
and acquisition. The myriad sources of spatially-referenced
and non-spatially-referenced data are examined. Particular
attention is paid to the development of a framework within
which students may judge the value of third-party geospatial
data to the enterprise GIS. Issues of data interoperability
are examined via case-method learning. |
| Advanced
GIS Editing Techniques [3] |
The
objective of this course is to provide students with the
concepts and skills required to automate and maintain
GIS feature data. Special attention is given to the automation
of data workflow, editing processes, coordinate system
reconciliation, the maintenance of topology, and the creation
and maintenance of metadata. |
| Professional
Seminar on Geospatial Technologies [1] |
This
one-credit professional seminar addresses -in turn- the
past, present and future of geospatial technologies and
the geospatial industry. Each student enrolls in the course
three times. |
| Project
Management of the Enterprise GIS [3] |
This
course is proposed as a capstone involving advanced study
and application of structured analysis and design methods
throughout the GIS life cycle. The course stresses common
approaches for gathering requirements, modeling, analyzing
and designing geographic information systems. The course
employs the case method of instruction.
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