Geographic Information Systems (Certificate)

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Program Information

All courses must be passed with a “C” (2.0) or better to be counted in the certificate.

Certificate Completion

This certificate program may be completed independently and does not require enrollment in or completion of any degree program to be awarded.

Geographic Information Systems Curriculum (16 Credits)

Required Courses (8 Credits)

GEOG 2800 - Introduction to GIS and Cartography 4 Credit(s)
GEOG 3550 - Spatial Analysis 4 Credit(s)

Required Elective (3-4 Credits)

Complete one of the following:

GEOG 2860 - Open Source GIS 3 Credit(s)
GEOG 2900 - Geospatial Field Methods: GPS and Drones 3 Credit(s)
GEOG 2950 - Web GIS 3 Credit(s)
GEOG 2980 - Geospatial Programming with Python 3 Credit(s)
GEOG 3110 - The Earth from Space: Intro to Remote Sensing 4 Credit(s)
GEOG 4150 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems Methods 4 Credit(s)

Internship/Research/Project Requirement (4-5 Credits)

Students are strongly recommended to work with their advisor and faculty to plan for these required courses. Most of these courses in this section can be arranged to be taken online and do not require face-to-face instruction on campus. There is an option for internship/project credit for existing employed professionals, and project credit for various majors across campus that implement GIS with their project work.

GEO 2990 - Undergraduate Research 1-4 Credit(s)
GEOG 2920 - Workshop 1-3 Credit(s)
GEOG 3990 - Undergraduate Research in Geography/GIS 2-8 Credit(s)
GEOG 4400 - Geospatial Capstone Proposal 1 Credit(s)
GEOG 4500 - Geospatial Research Project (Capstone Project) 3 Credit(s)
GEOG 4890 - GIS Internship 2-8 Credit(s)

Total Credits, Certificate: 16

Program Learning Outcomes

Student will be able to demonstrate their understanding of geographic information systems, theories, principles, and procedures (data formats, relational database concepts, geoprocessing methods and procedures).
Student will be able to demonstrate their understanding of work flows for project creation/collection, data editing/manipulation, data geoprocessing/analysis, and output/presentation, both hard and soft copy.
Student will be able to demonstrate their understanding of skills related to field collection using GPS, smart phones, web-based mapping resources and integration into GIS.
Student will be able to demonstrate their understanding of remote sensing concepts/processing methods and/or programming/automated flow methods with iterations and/or UAV collection and image manipulation.