ENSP 103 Intro to Geographic Information Systems

Prerequisite: MATH 098 or Level IB placement on the Basic Math Skills Inventory or permission of the instructor. An introduction to Geographic Information Systems for students of all disciplines. This course will provide a suite of tools for creating, manipulating, analyzing, visualizing, and illustrating spatial data. Concepts presented in lecture will be put into practice through hands-on laboratory exercises utilizing appropriate GIS software. The culmination of the course is the presentation of discipline-specific original research projects employing the methods learned.