Specific objectives are for you

The course will involve a combination of lectures, discussions, and laboratory exercises. Please keep up on the reading assignments. The lectures/discussions will expand on the materials in the text. Discussions will involve all members of the class. However, you will not be evaluated on participation.

You will be evaluated on 8 laboratory exercises, 1 case study, 2 examinations, and a final project. The laboratory exercises will involve basic mapping and GIS operations. You should keep up on these, as we will have little time to make up work.

Examinations will cover materials from the lectures and readings and will consist of multiple-choice, short answer, and short essay questions. Make up examinations will be arranged as necessary, and may be based on different questions than those on the original examination.

The case study will involve finding an article describing a GIS project, writing a brief summary of the article, and discussing the article in class.

The project will involve obtaining thematic data and integrating that data into a GIS to produce a set of maps.