Metadata Education Project

Survey of GIS-related courses

Advanced GIS: software specific

Other course types | Description of table fields for the survey

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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 E-MAIL
Vector methods in GIS Brigham Young University Geography   yes yes na yes   no no yes no yes yes no no no no arc/info readings objectives: sound understanding of the prinicples of GIScience; marketable skills in using a popular GIS program      
Advanced Arc/Info Metropolitan State College of Denver Earth and Atmospheric Science                                 arc/info ESRI: understanding GIS        
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
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      
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
Advanced GIS: Intro to Arc/Info University of Oregon Geography   yes no yes yes no no no no no no no no no no no arc/info ESRI: understanding GIS based purely on the textbook   Aileen Buckley aileen@oregon.uoregon.edu
Advanced GIS University of Texas at Dallas School of Social Sciences certificate yes yes yes yes   yes no no yes no no no no no no arc/info ESRI: understanding GIS heavily ARC/INFO based. Final project includes finding data sources, data documentation.      
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.      
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