Certificate in Geographic Information Systems

(Comming Soon! Approved by the Board of Regents; awaiting final approval from the CPE.)

Introductory geoscience laboratory requirement (3 hours). Students may choose to take either:

• GEO 210 Introduction to Physical Geography,
• GLY 102 Earth Science for Teachers,
• GLY 107 Gold and Diamonds,
• GLY 108 Plate Tectonics: The Active Earth,
• GLY 109 Great Moments in Earth History, or
• GLY 172 Geology and Human Health.

Required GIS core courses (9 hours). Students must take:

• GEO 353 Geographic Information Systems,
• GEO 456 Geographic Image Interpretation, and
• GEO 553 Advanced GIS.

Twelve (12) hours of electives, selected from the following:

• GEO 351 Geographic Techniques,
• GEO 455 GIS Cartography,
• GEO 501 Advanced Geography: _________ (when topics are appropriate),
• GEO 556 Advanced Geographic Imagery,
• GLY 351 Field Methods,
• CSC 177 Introduction to Visual Basic,
• CRJ 403 Crime Mapping,
• STA 270 Applied Statistics I or STA 500 Applied Statistical Inference, and
• GEO 495 Practicum, GEO 498 Independent Study, or GLY 499 Senior Thesis (when topics are appropriate),