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| TYPE | COURSE | UNIVERSITY | DEPARTMENT | SPECIAL | OUTLINE | LECTURE | LAB | PROJECT | EXAM | METADATA | STANDARDS/LEGAL | DATA QUALITY | DATA SOURCES | IMPLEMENTATION | DECISION MAKING | FUTURE | NCGIA CC | GEOGRAPHER'S CRAFT | OTHER ON-LINE | SOFTWARE | TEXT | COMMENTS | WEBSITE | INSTRUCTOR | |
| advanced issues/applications | Advanced GIS | Metropolitan State College of Denver | Earth and Atmospheric Science | yes | na | na | yes | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | ArcView Spatial | Chrisman, Berry | Berry, J.K. 1995. Spatial Reasoning for effective GIS. | |||||
| advanced software specific | Advanced Arc/Info | Metropolitan State College of Denver | Earth and Atmospheric Science | arc/info | ESRI: understanding GIS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| gis basic | Intro to GIS | Metropolitan State College of Denver | Earth and Atmospheric Science | yes | na | web - GIS info | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | arcview | clarke, GTAV | ||||||
| advanced spatial analysis | Geoprocessing | Michigan State | Geography | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | readings | Group project: produce a laboratory exercise approp. for undergraduates including sample data, structured introduction to method | http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~geo/fac/brown/geo825.txt | Daniel Brown | brownda@pilot.msu.edu | |||
| spatial awareness | Introduction to Geographic Information | Michigan State | Geography | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | ArcView | a combined introduction to cartography, geographical information systems, and remote sensing, as all three of these areas are concerned with spatial data | http://www.msu.edu/~olsonj/Syll221.htm | Judy Olson | olsonj@pilot.msu.edu | |||
| gis basic | GIS | Michigan State | Geography | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | Arcinfo | readings | http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~geo/fac/brown/geo425.txt | Daniel Brown | ||||
| gis basic | Workshop on GIS | MIT | Urban Studies and Planning | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | ArcView Network | Heavy on ArcView exercises. Census data. | ||||||
| gis basic | GIS | Mohawk College | community college | yes | na | na | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | ||||||||
| spatial awareness | NCGIA Core Curriculum for GIScience | NCGIA | geography | yes | yes | no | no | indirect | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | Section 3.2 "Supplying the Data" under (GI - Society) dicusses public access, digital libraries, transfer standards, marketing data; legal issues. Other applicable units: SDSS, Making it Work (implementation); Handling Uncertainty; Populating the GISsystem (data exchange; finding data; metadata (081) | http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/cc_outline.html | |||||||
| gis basic | NCGIA Core Curriculum for Technical Programs | NCGIA | Geography | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | Designed from the point of view of students: I want to learn how to do this. Includes prepartory units and complimentary units to make sure student has sufficient background knowledge to accomplish the desired task. | http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/cctp | Steve Palladino | |||||
| advanced issues/applications | Design and Implementation of GIS | Ohio State University | Geography | yes | na | no | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | A very advanced course purely on GIS implementation. Less opportunity for metadata integration than a GIS project class. Similar to Huxhold's 1995 book. | http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/courses/687.dm.html | Duane Marble | marble.1@osu.edu | ||||
| advanced issues/applications | GIS in Business and Social Science | Ohio State University | Geography | no | yes | na | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | no | arc/info | Very first lecture covers data sources, data quality, scale and resolution. Hands on Arc/Info labs including projection, site analysis, interaction. | http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/classdocs/686Kwan/lectures.html | Mei-po Kwan | ||||
| advanced spatial analysis | Intermediate GIS | Ohio State University | Geography | no | yes | na | no | no | no | no | yes | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | ArcView | Pure spatial analysis. Data structures and database design. | http://whopper.sbs.ohio-state.edu/classpages/courses/g685/newlec.html | Mei-po Kwan | ||||
| spatial awareness | Fundamentals of GIS | Ohio State University | Geography | interdiscplinary | yes | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | Interdiscplinary class for several different dept. and taught by professors in different departments. Four lectures on map fundamentals; two lectures on spatial database structure (beyond raster/vector!) two lectures on data requirements; very brief on analysis. Exam question: difference between active and passive metadata? | http://www.arch.ohio-state.edu/crp/courses/CRP607/syllabus.html | M. O'Kelly | ||||
| advanced issues/applications | Advanced Applications of GIS in the Geosciences | Oregon State University | Geosciences | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | ArcInfo | DeMers, J.K Berry | http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/buffgis/580desc.html | Dawn Wright | ||||
| advanced software specific | GIS Practicum | Oregon State University | Geosciences | yes | na | na | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | ArcView, ArcInfo | ESRI: understanding GIS | http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/arc/ | Dawn Wright | dawn@dusk.geo.orst.edu | |||
| gis basic | GIS | Oregon State University | Geosciences | yes | yes | na | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | ArcView | Clarke | Project requires finding, dowloading, and using data. One lab on error & uncertainty. | http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/gis/ | Dawn Wright | |||
| gis other discpline | GIS and Forest Engineering Applications | Oregon State University | Forest Engineering Dept. | yes | yes | na | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | yes | ArcView | Using ArcView | Final project, must provide a data quality description | http://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/teach/fe357/project.htm | Michael Wing | Michael.Wing@orst.edu | ||
| advanced issues/applications | GIS in practice: environmental applications | Penn State | Geography | certificate, distance | yes | na | na | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | specific environmnetal models and analysis | ||||||
| advanced spatial analysis | Elements of GIS II | Penn State | Geography | certificate, distance | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | Analysis and cartographic presentation, group final project | ||||||
| spatial awareness | The Nature of Geographic Information | Penn State | Geography | certificate, distance | yes | na | na | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes | Geomedia | Worldcampus distance learning program. Web-based and requires homeware. Provides detailed learning objectives with metadata integrated throughout the course. Focus on different data types | http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu:8901/welcome/geog5121/welcome.html | David DiBiase | dwd1@psu.edu | ||
| gis basic | Elements of GIS I | Penn State | Geography | certificate, distance | yes | na | na | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | Geomedia | Worldcampus distance learning program. Web-based and requires homeware. Lessons include: Data collection, data entry, data maintenance, transformations, database design, data quality issues, data documentation. | https://www.worldcampus.psu.edu:8901/welcome/geog5122/syllabus.html | Todd Bacastow | |||
| advanced software specific | Urban Spatial Analysis using GIS | Rutgers | Urban Studies and Planning | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | arc/info | Chou; Chrisman; huxhold; ESRI | Use of Arc/Info GRID, Spatial Analyt, Network Analyst, Dynamic Segmentation. Uses Chou (1997) Exploring Spatial Analysis in GIS and Huxhold (1991) An Introduction to Urban GIS | |||||
| spatial awareness | Fundamentals of Environmental Geomatics | Rutgers | Urban Studies and Planning | yes | yes | na | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | aronoff | a basic intro geographic information similar to Penn State's Mapping Our Changing World; covers all data sources including GPS/remote sensing; some technical issues (scanning, cogo); resolution and accuracy; organizational/ societal issues; exercise to find, download, interpret metadata on the Web | http://urban.rutgers.edu/geomatic/description.html | Lyna Wiggins | |||
| gis other discpline | Computers in Planning and Management | Rutgers | Urban Studies and Planning | yes | na | na | na | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | arcview | first half of course other computer applications; second half GIS | http://urban.rutgers.edu/420s98/description.htm | Lyna Wiggins | ||||
| spatial awareness | Introduction to Geographic Analysis | San Francisco State University | Geography | yes | yes | na | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | arcview | Hohl and Mayo, ArcView GIS Execrise Book | Introduction to the use of computers for geographic analysis, starting with an introduction to basic computer functionality,operating systems, graphical user interfaces and spreadsheets, and progressing to GIS. Explores data structures suitable for earth images, maps and spatial datasets. Metadata emphasized in one lecture, "Datasets for GIA/GIS". Separate lecture on data quality (G. Craft) | http://www.sfsu.edu/~geog/kassim/html/geo603/geo603_frameset.html | Kassim Visram | |||
| gis basic | GIS | San Francisco State University | Geography | yes | na | na | no | no | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | ArcInfo | includes a study guide for exam that covers basics such as projections, representation, scale/resolution, accuracy | http://www.sfsu.edu/~geog/jdavis/620/ | Jerry Davis | ||||
| short | Managing a GIS project | San Francisco State University | Geography | short course, certificate | yes | na | na | na | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | Part of a GIS certificate based solely on short (1-4 day) courses: "Our philosophy is to provide students with skills and a conceptual base from which they will be able to develop and manage large or small GIS projects" | http://www.sfsu.edu/~gis/cert/welcome.htm | |||||
| advanced issues/applications | GIS: Project Development | San Jose State University | Geography | certicate | na | na | na | na | yes | arcinfo | |||||||||||||||
| advanced spatial analysis | Maps and GIS Analysis | San Jose State University | Geography | certificate | na | na | na | no | |||||||||||||||||
| spatial awareness | Intro to Mapping and GIS | San Jose State University | Geography | certificate | na | na | na | yes | The certificate program in Geographic Information Science provides undergraduate and graduate students in Geography, Urban Planning, and other disciplines the opportunity to develop expertise in the creation, manipulation, analysis, and display of geographic information. | http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/geography/datashts/geoggis.htm | Richard Taketa | rtaketa@email.sjsu.edu | |||||||||||||
| spatial awareness | Intro to Mapping and GIS | Santa Barbara City College | Earth Science | community college | yes | na | na | no | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | no | Clarke | Recommended for anyone who is using or anticpates using any of the many types of data that can be mapped | ||||
| advanced software specific | Advanced GIS | Sonoma State University | Geography | yes | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | ArcInfo | ESRI: understanding GIS | Students have to pick their own study area for final project and assemble datasets | http://www.sonoma.edu/gic/Geog487/default.html | Bryan Baker | bryan.baker@sonoma.edu | |||||
| gis basic | Intro to GIS | Sonoma State University | Geography | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | clarke | arcview | Students have required WWW readings and must post summaries and comments on summaries to class web site. Includes FGDC's Value of Metadata and Costa Rica National parks metadata homepage and articles on management of GIS projects | http://www.sonoma.edu/gic/Geog387/default.html | Tim Pudoff | Tim.Pudoff@sonoma.edu | ||
| gis basic | GIS | West Point | Geography and Environmental Engineering | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | arcview | GATV | Each section has Learning Objectives, Vocabulary, and Assignments. Two modules deal with metadata: data quality and database creation. Exercises in metadata involve reviewing FGDC website, learning how to read and create compliant metadata. For project data is provided, no data issues. | http://www.dean.usma.edu/geo/Courses/EV398/ | Michael Hendriks | bm9886@exmail.usma.edu | |||
| advanced issues/applications | Technical Issues in GIS | West Virginia University | geography | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | limited info available but appears this course is based on NCGIA CC lectures related to projections, transformations, georeferencing, geocoding, algorithms | |||||||
| advanced software specific | GIS Database Design and Implementation | West Virginia University | geography | no | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | arc/info | ESRI: understanding GIS | Based on exercises, with these additions: a daily log of all commands and actions, errors; Develop a project with actual data rather than the "canned" data; at the end of each lesson, summarize the primary objective by identifying the input(s) major function and output(s) of the command sequence | |||||
| gis basic | Intro to Gis | West Virginia University | geography | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | arcview | Clarke | Lecture on Data Inputs to GIS includes data sources, standards, errors & accuracy, clearinghouse, metadata, framework. Exam: given a project description, write: The selection of the inputs; data required; sources; acquisition and capture; analytical steps; recommendations; suggest ways in which you might improve the GIS project if you had more time and a larger budget. | http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~elmes/geog250.htm | Gregory Elmes | elmes@geo.wvu.edu | |||
| advanced issues/applications | GIS Applications | Wright State University | Geography | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | ArcInfo | Chou, | Text: Exploring spatial analysis in GIS; course objective also says "to introduce the student to a collection of specialized data sources relevant to specific applications" | http://www.wright.edu/~jay.gatrell/geo448.htm | Jay Gatrell | |||
| gis basic | Fundamentals of GIS | Wright State University | Geography | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | ArcView, Idrisi | Davis, Inside ArcView | http://www.wright.edu/~jay.gatrell/geo447.htm | Jay Gatrell | jay_gatrell@wright.edu | |||
| gis other discpline | Geological and Environmental Applications of GIS | Wright State University | Geological Sciences | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | no | idrisi | http://geology.wright.edu | Songlin Cheng | Songlin.Cheng@wright.edu |