Summer Session

GSS 313: GIS Design and Application I

Undergraduate 3 credits

Prerequisite: MAT 125 or MAT 131 or AMS 151 or instructor consent Corequisite: GSS 314

SBC: TECH

Provides the basic concepts underlying modern geographic information science and technology. Emphasis is placed on the principles of GIS for characterizing environmental systems and computer-based techniques for processing and analyzing spatial data. The course is three credit hours of lecture. This lecture course must be taken in the same semester as the associated laboratory, GSS 314. Not for credit in addition to GSS 317.

GSS 314: GIS Laboratory

Undergraduate 1 credit

Corequisite: GSS 313

Practice using the GIS techniques and tools learned in the lecture (GSS 313), work on exercises, and process and analyze the spatial data for the course project. This laboratory course must be taken in the same semester as GSS 313.

GSS 513: GIS Fundamentals I

Graduate 3 credits

This course provides the basic concepts underlying modern geographic information science and technology. Emphasis is placed on the principles of GIS for collecting, storing, characterizing, and maintaining data and computer-based techniques for processing and analyzing spatial data. The course includes three hours of lecture, in class exercises and homework projects each week. This is a computer based class with the majority of students work involving GIS computer software. Prerequisite: working knowledge of spreadsheet software