GIS Class Schedule

Class Number: 9292 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Quentin Clark

Location

Online

Description

This course is an introduction to the concepts and uses of GIS. Lecture topics include history of GIS, GIS data structures and sources of data, GIS tools, vendors and software, applications, and resources. Exercises include spatial data display and query, map generation, and simple spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Class format is approximately 50% lecture and 50% lab exercise.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9293 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Class Status Message

Instructor

Quentin Clark

Location

Online

Description

This course is an introduction to the concepts and uses of GIS. Lecture topics include history of GIS, GIS data structures and sources of data, GIS tools, vendors and software, applications, and resources. Exercises include spatial data display and query, map generation, and simple spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Class format is approximately 50% lecture and 50% lab exercise.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online asynchronous
Class sessions are entirely online with no set day/time.

Class Number: 9294 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Sally Shatford

Location

Online

Description

This course explores various methods of capturing data for use in GIS, including digitizing from maps, digital photos, and satellite imagery; locating and reformatting existing digital data, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), scanning, image classification and address matching. Topics will include methods of attributing and concepts of data conversion, georeferencing, projections, and coordinate systems. Class format: approximately 50% lecture, 50% software applications.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9295 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Tom Robinson

Location

Online

Description

This course teaches current methods for assessing vulnerabilities and resilience to expected effects of climate change - e.g., extreme heat, aridification, flooding - from both community (built environment) and natural (unbuilt) perspectives, using GIS.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9296 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Seth Hiatt

Location

Online

Description

This course focuses on the planning, construction, and administration of a GIS database including spatial and attribute data. The lecture provides a conceptual background, as well as practical guidelines, and is reinforced with exercises using both ESRI software and traditional database design techniques. Topics include data requirements analysis; relational database design; attribute and entity definitions; table normalization; table creation and population; query optimization; and data integration. Class format: approximately 50% lecture, 50% software application.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9297 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

XiaoHang Liu

Location

Online

Description

This course will focus on many of the vector-based analytical tools and techniques available within ArcGIS, as well as ways of linking external analytical tools (models, statistical programs) to ArcGIS. Case studies will be used to illustrate more complex examples. Class format: approximately two-third lecture, one-third software application.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9298 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Ana Carolina Pelegrini Guimaraes

Location

Online

Description

ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based web mapping platform used across multiple industries and by GIS professionals worldwide. It enables you to make maps, host data, create various mapping applications, and share your data with anyone who has internet access. Web GIS is becoming the cornerstone of sharing GIS data and map distribution. In this course you will learn the fundamental terminology and capabilities of ArcGIS Online. We will review the various data types, web map configurations, mobile data collection, sharing security model, and various desktop web applications. ArcGIS Online is becoming an industry standard for sharing and creating data, GIS students who would like to expand their knowledge of GIS should take advantage of this course.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9299 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Jerry Davis

Location

Online

Description

Introduction to programming ArcGIS using the Geoprocessing Environment. Students will learn to create geoprocessing tools that can be combined with other tools, in models and the toolbox, to process complex analysis tasks and automate repetitive data maintenance needs. Scripting with Python is emphasized as the appropriate technology for getting GIS work done by users, and is compatible with ArcGIS modules and all current geospatial data structures: rasters, shapefiles, coverages, and geodatabases. Students need no prior programming experience.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9300 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Seth Hiatt

Location

Online

Description

This course builds upon skills learned in previous GIS courses, emphasizing common uses of GIS for ecological analysis. Class lectures and labs will familiarize students with ecological data sources and potential data issues, and cover a variety of ecological GIS applications such as species distribution mapping, habitat suitability modeling, corridor analysis, and invasive species mapping.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9301 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Leonhard Blesius

Location

Online

Description

An introduction to LiDAR data and derived digital models. Emphasis is placed on creating surface models from point cloud data and integrating spectral data and object based image analysis for vegetation classification.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9302 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Jerry Davis

Location

Online

Description

Topics in this course include the use of raster GIS tools for natural resource modeling and environmental analysis; the raster structure and its advantages and limitations, appropriate data and procedures; simple raster surface modeling and image integration; map algebra concepts using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst; proximity and dispersion modeling, and cost surfaces.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9303 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Quentin Clark

Location

Online

Description

This course is a discussion and demonstration of the essential cartographic principles and practices used for designing maps. The focus is on techniques for creating maps that effectively communicate single/multi-variant qualitative and quantitative spatial data to the viewer. Through numerous hands-on exercises, participants will have the opportunity to use most of the map production tools provided with ESRI software products to prepare raw data and produce a variety of thematic maps. Class format: approximately 50% lecture, 50% software application.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.

Class Number: 9304 | CEU: 1.6 | Fee: $435

Spring 2025 registration will begin on Monday, January 06, 2025

Instructor

Tom Robinson

Location

Online

Description

Designed for managers who may be new to supervising GIS projects. Topics covered include defining the scope of a project; data acquisition; project planning; project budget estimation; staffing; pilot studies; cooperative projects. Case studies.

Notes

Course fee $435

Learning Mode

Online synchronous
Class meets entirely online at scheduled days/times.