Geospatial Information Science Concentration

Course Requirements

Students enrolled in the Geospatial Information Science Concentration will take courses from four blocks of courses:


1. Information Science Core Area (12 graduate credit hours)

  • INFO 6000 - Seminar in Information Science
  • INFO 6660 - Readings in Information Science
  • INFO 6700 - Seminar in Communication and Use of Information
  • INFO 6945 - Doctoral Seminar in Information Issues

2. Research Courses (minimum of 24 graduate credit hours, including doctoral dissertation hours)

  • INFO 6940 - Seminar in Research and Research Methodology
  • INFO 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation (12 hours)
  • GEOG 5185 - Statistical Research Methods in Geography
  • GEOG 5550 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems (or GEOG 5900 if student has taken GEOG 5550)
  • GEOG 5900 - Special Problems

3. Geospatial Information Science Concentration Core (15 graduate credit hours)- chosen with approval of major advisor

  • GEOG 5230 - Location Intelligence: Advanced Business GIS Concepts and Applications
  • GEOG 5410 - Location-Allocation Modeling
  • GEOG 5430 - Remote Sensing
  • GEOG 5510 - GIS for Applied Research
  • GEOG 5560 - Application Development with Python Programming
  • GEOG 5570 - Special Topics in GIS
  • GEOG 5580 - Advanced GIS Methods in Health
  • GEOG 5590 - Advanced GIS Programming

4. Concentration Electives (a minimum of 9 graduate credit hours focusing on one competency. Competencies listed below).

  • BIOL 5040 - Contemporary Topics in Environmental Science and Ecology
  • BIOL 5050 - Foundations of Ecological Theory
  • CSCE 5170 - Graph Theory
  • CSCE 5213 - Modeling and Simulation
  • CSCE 5215 - Machine Learning
  • CSCE 5220 - Computer Graphics
  • CSCE 5225 - Digital Image Processing
  • CSCE 5350 - Fundamentals of Database Systems
  • CSCE 5380 - Data Mining
  • CSCE 5820 - Computational Epidemiology
  • CSCE 6260 - Advanced Topics in Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
  • CSCE 6350 - Advanced Topics in Database Systems
  • EENG 5640 - Computer Vision and Image Analysis
  • EMDS 5610 - Disaster Preparedness and Management
  • EMDS 5615 - Environmental Planning and Hazards
  • GEOG 5140 - Medical Geography
  • GEOG 5210 - Seminar in Urban Geography
  • GEOG 5350 - Geomorphology
  • GEOG 5400 - Environmental Modeling
  • SOCI 5210 - Introduction to Social Statistics
  • SOCI 5350 - Seminar on Urbanization
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