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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 | GIS: Project Development | San Jose State University | Geography | certicate | na | na | na | na | yes | arcinfo | |||||||||||||||
| advanced issues/applications | Management and Implementation of GIS | University of Texas at Dallas | School of Social Sciences | certificate | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | FGDC | Huxhold and Levinsohn 1995 | Required readings include Metadata Primer and FGDC pages. Exam questions include 1) pro and con arguments for participating in FGDC's framework concept 2) arguments to convince boss metadata is worthwhile | ||||
| advanced software specific | Advanced GIS | University of Texas at Dallas | School of Social Sciences | certificate | yes | yes | yes | data sources, steps, some metadata | arc/info | ESRI: understanding GIS | heavily ARC/INFO based | ||||||||||||||
| advanced software specific | using Urban GIS for Planning | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Urban Planning | certificate | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | arcview arc/info | ESRI: understanding GIS | Very technical course designed to familiarize students with property files and parcel maps and experience using ArcView and Arc/Info. For such a techy course, keeping a notebook/log is a useful lead in to metadata. Create data for final project could also require creating metadata. | ||||
| advanced spatial analysis | GIS Capstone | Cleveland State University | College of Urban Affairs | certificate | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | ArcView, MapInfo | readings | Final project; also a "GIS function presentation" - each student assigned a GIS function and must explain it and demonstrate it to the class | http://urban.csuohio.edu/fall98syllabi/ust644.html | Jim Wyles | wyles@wolf.csuohio.edu | |
| advanced spatial analysis | Maps and GIS Analysis | San Jose State University | Geography | certificate | na | na | na | no | |||||||||||||||||
| gis basic | Intro to GIS | Cleveland State University | College of Urban Affairs | certificate | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | ArcVIew | Using ArcView, Davis | Bruce Davis "GIS: a Visual Approach" | http://urban.csuohio.edu/fall98syllabi/ust642.html | Mark Salling | mark@urban.csuohio.edu | |
| gis basic | GIS | University of Northern Alabama | geography | certificate | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | URISA; the GIS Primer from PMR | arcview | aronoff | Requires students to keep an exercise notebook "to learn ArcView to fullest extent possible" - good place to incorporate metadata. Data is provided for siting project. | ||||
| gis basic | GIS, GPS & Computer Methods | University of Pittsburgh | Geology and Planetary Scicence | certificate | no | no | yes | collect and analyze data; keep data dictionary | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | arc/info | ESRI: understanding GIS | Search the Web to find data in point, polygon, raster, population data, biological data; search DLG info to find map projection and accuracy information. Import data from various sources. Project data. | http://corona.eps.pitt.edu/www_GPS/courses/GEO1445 | William Harbert, Sarah Zimmerman | harbert+@pitt.edu | |
| gis basic | Into to GIS | University of Texas at Dallas | School of Social Sciences | certificate | yes | yes | yes | no | indirect | no | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | NIMA - geodesy | arcview | good example exercises: web download, census, address matching, heads up digitizing | http://www.utdallas.edu/~briggs/ | Ronald Briggs | briggs@utdallas.edu | ||
| gis basic | Principles of GIS | University of Utah | geography | certificate | na | na | na | GIScience Certificate Program includes three tracks: (multipath) including Applied GIS; GIS Application Development and GIS software design. Appears to be more emphasis on GIS data models/analysis less on implementation/organizational issues | |||||||||||||||||
| gis other discpline | Intro to Urban GIS for Planning | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Urban Planning | certificate | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | arcview arc/info | Huxhold 1991 | Emphasis throughout on land records information; overview of urban/regional GIS activities; case studies and trends in urban GIS. Labs designed to provide technical skills. Metadata may be mentioned in sources/accuracy of land record data and in GIS Project planning and management. Project includes statement "to what degree does accuracy affect the problem", and what are the cost/time tradeoffs between "ideal" system to a "practical system" | http://sarup.uwm.edu/Planning/Courses/692791.htm | William Huxhold | ||
| map basic | GPS-GIS | University of Utah | Geography | certificate | yes | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | yes | yes | arcview | How GPS and GIS work together and inconjunction with a variety of other spatial data and economic database | http://www.geog.utah.edu/~mgatw/geog393-593.html | Genevieve Atwood | genevieve.atwood@geog.utah.edu | ||
| 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 | Digital Techniques in Geography | University of Northern Alabama | geography | certificate | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | arc/info | ESRI: understanding GIS | Find/download new database from internet. Heads-up digitizing off an orthophoto plus create metadata for each tile then merge tiles and metadata plus process documentation. | http://www.una.edu/geography/classes/ge484/course_outline/outline.html | Lisa Keys-Matthews | lmathews@unanov.una.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 issues/applications | Geography and Society | University of Southern California | Geography | certificate, distance | yes | na | na | na | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | ESRI virtual campus | arcview | GIS for a manager: background on information systems, information strategy and business strategy; organizational (impact on) issues, implemental strategy, how much is information worth? | |||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | |||||
| gis basic | spatial analysis and modeling | University of Southern California | Geography | certificate, distance | yes | na | na | na | no | no | yes | no | no | no | no | no | no | ESRI virtual campus | arcview, GeoMedia, Idrisi | building blocks of a GIS project; data models; analysis and modeling and issues related | |||||
| 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 | https://www.worldcampus.psu.edu:8901/welcome/geog5121/welcome.html | David DiBiase | dwd1@psu.edu | ||
| spatial awareness | Concepts for Spatial Thinking | University of Southern California | Geography | certificate, distance | yes | na | na | no | no | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | ESRI virtual campus | arcview | slightly more orientation toward GIScience (cognition, geodesy), less on organizational/societal issues. Part of a distance learning GIS certificate requiring 3 courses/1 year, also taught as a traditional univ. course | http://ww.usc.edu/dept/geography/learngis | Chris Williamson | cbwillia@usc.edu | ||
| spatial awareness | Basic Geographic, Spatial, and GIS Concepts | Denver University | GIS | certificate, evening course | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | ArcView | clarke, GTAV | GIS industry and functional components of GIS; GIS applications, users, and their data analysis requirements; map scale, coordinate systems, and projections; raster and vector data models; data acquisition technologies for capturing GIS data; routine spatial and table-based queries | http://www.du.edu/~shick/gis4501/Syl_4501.htm | Steven Hick | shick@ du.edu | |
| short | GIS software classes | Berkeley | Geographic Information Science Center | certificate, short course | na | na | na | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | ArcView, ArcInfo | Core Classes: Intro to GIScience, Intro to Mapping, Spatial Data Structures, Intro to ArcView, Intro to ArcInfo, Intro to Remote Sensing. Manager courses: Advanced ArcView and ArcInfo, Applied Metadata, Quality Control and Standards, Integrating GIS and CAD, Integrating Public Data, Integrating GPS and GIS. Analyst Classes: Managing a GIS project, Managing GIS Datasets, Metadata and Quality Control, Database Design; Specialist Classes: ArcView extensions, Avenue, Visual Basic | http://www.gisc.berkeley.edu | ||||
| short | GIS certificate program | Cal Poly Pomona | College of Extended Study | certificate, short course | na | na | na | na | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | no | no | arcview | Certificate availabe for GIS or Progamming for GIS, both available in one year with 5 evening courses: Understanding GIS, Intro to GIS with ArcView, Data Sources and Conversion, Intermediate GIS with ArcView, Spatial Analysis, and GIS application development. The Programming Certificate covers application development, but does it provide a sufficient base in GIS and data issues? | http://www.csupomona.edu/_cgisr/giscert.html | Keith Mann | wkmann@cuspomona.edu |