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2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Geographic Information Science and Technology, BS

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Minimum degree requirement is 126 s.h. of credit as follows:

1. Foundations curriculum, including those listed below - 42 s.h.

(See Section 4, Foundations Curriculum Requirements for All Baccalaureate Degree Programs)

COMM 2410 - Public Speaking or
COMM 2420 - Business and Professional Communication
MATH 1065 - College Algebra

2. Common Core - 31 s.h.

GEOG 2400 - Spatial Data Analysis
GEOG 2410 - Fundamentals of GIS or
PLAN 3051 - Introduction to GIS in Planning
GEOG 3420 - Remote Sensing of the Environment I
GEOG 3430 - Geographic Information Systems I
GEOG 3450 - Introduction to the Global Positioning System
GEOG 3460 - GIS Applications Programming
GEOG 4410 - Advanced Cartographic Design and Production
GEOG 4420 - Remote Sensing II
GEOG 4430 - Geographic Information Systems II
GEOG 4450 - GIScience, Society and Technology
GEOG 4999 - Geography Professional Seminar

3. GIS electives - 6 s.h.

(Choose from the following)

GEOG 4150 - Advanced Spatial Analysis
GEOG 4440 - Coastal Applications of GIS
GEOG 4460 - Digital Terrain Analysis
GEOG 4540 - Coastal Storms
GEOG 4580 - Radar and Satellite Meteorology
GEOG 4491 - Supervised Study in Geographic Techniques
GEOG 4492 - Supervised Study in Geographic Techniques
GEOG 4493. - Supervised Study in Geographic Techniques
GEOG 4801 - Geographic Internship
GEOG 4802 - Geographic Internship
GEOG 4803 - Geographic Internship
PLAN 4021 - Advanced GIS Applications in Planning

4. Environmental and Human Geography - 15 s.h.

(Choose from the following; a minimum of 3 s.h. must be above 2999)

GEOG 1300 - Weather and Climate
GEOG 2003 - Geography in the Global Economy
GEOG 2019 - Geography of Recreation
GEOG 2250 - Earth Surface Systems
GEOG 2300 - Geography of Environmental Resources
GEOG 2350 - Climate Change: Science and Society
GEOG 3001 - Historical Geography of the United States
GEOG 3003 - Political Geography
GEOG 3004 - Urban Geography
GEOG 3049 - Latin America
GEOG 3050 - Africa
GEOG 3051 - Asia
GEOG 3220 - Soil Properties, Surveys, and Applications
GEOG 3230 - Global Climates
GEOG 3250 - Environmental Hazards
GEOG 3510 - Physical Meteorology
GEOG 4210 - Fluvial and Hydrological Processes
GEOG 4220 - Coastal Geography
GEOG 4230 - Earth Surface Processes
GEOG 4270 - Water Resources Management and Planning
GEOG 4310 - Geography of Transportation and Trade
GEOG 4315 - Geographic Images
GEOG 4320 - Gender, Economy, and Development
GEOG 4325 - Resources, Population, and Development
GEOG 4330 - Agricultural Geography
GEOG 4345 - Human Migration and Global Restructuring
GEOG 4510 - Meteorological Instruments and Observations
GEOG 4530 - Micrometeorology
GEOG 4560 - Urban Climatology
GEOG 4570 - Hydrometeorology
GEOG 4590 - Tropical Meteorology

5. Cognates - 21 s.h.