Geographic Information Systems, P.B.C.

Consisting of five courses (15 credits), the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in GIS is designed to provide students with a set of core technical and analytical tools which reflect the technical interdependence of the GIS career field. Students are able to earn this certificate first and then choose to transfer all of the credits into the M.P.S. program.

Required Core (12 credits)

(3 credits per course unless otherwise noted)

GES 670 - Advanced Seminar in GIS [3]
GES 671 - Spatial Database and System Design [3]
GES 675 - GIS Application Development I [3]
GES 679 - Professional Seminar on the Geospatial Technologies [1] - taken 3 times

Required Elective (3 credits)

(choose one)

GES 673 - Geoprocessing and Spatial Analysis [3]
GES 678 - Project Management of the Enterprise GIS [3]
GES 770 - Special Topics in Enterprise GIS [3]
GES 771 - Advanced Spatial Data Management [3]
GES 772 - Geospatial Web Services and Interoperability [3]
GES 773 - GIS Modeling Techniques [3]
GES 774 - Spatial Statistics [3]
GES 775 - Advanced GIS Application Development [3]
GES 776 - GIS Data Sources, Tasking, and Acquisition [3]
GES 777 - Advanced Data Modeling and Editing Techniques [3]
GES 778 - Advanced Visualization and Presentation [3]