Section outline

  • WEEK 1

    9/2-9/4

    ·       Intro to Course & GIS

    ·       Read Bolstad, Chapter 1

    ·       Excel mini lab (Optional)

    WEEK 2

    9/9-9/11

     

    ·       Principles of Mapping & Representation

    ·       Read Bolstad, Chapter 4 (focus on Building a GIS Database [pp. 147-156] & Output: Maps, Data, and Metadata [181-190])

    ·       Lab 1: Getting Oriented in ArcGIS

     

    WEEK 3

    9/16-9/18

     

    ·       Projections & Coordinate Systems

    ·       Lab 2: Projections, Choropleth Maps, Layouts

     

    WEEK 4

    9/23-9/25

     

    ·       Attribute Tables and Working With Census Data

    ·       Lab 3: Attribute Data

    WEEK 5

    9/30-10/2 

     

    ·       GIS for Environmental Research Topics and Vector Data Models

    ·       Lab 4: Spatial Attribute Sums

    WEEK 6

    10/7-10/9

     

    ·       Lab 5: Vector Models 

    FALL

    BREAK

     

    WEEK 7

    10/21-10/23

    ·       Feminist GIS and Vector Operations 2

    ·       Lab 6: Census Data Join

    WEEK 8

    10/28-10/30

    ·       Vector Operations 3

    WEEK 9

    11/4-11/6

    ·       Raster Data Model

    ·       Lab 7: Raster Analysis

    WEEK 10

    11/11-11/13

    ·       Geospatial Technologies and Carceral Geographies

    ·       Read Predictable Policing: Jefferson (2018)“Predictive Crime Mapping and Geographies of Policing and Race”

    ·       Lab 8 – Choose your own adventure!

    WEEK 11

    11/18-11/20

    ·       GIS Day 11/19

    ·       Lab

    WEEK 12

    11/24

    ·       Lab Session

    WEEK 13

    12/2-12/4

    ·       GIS Ethics

    ·       Read More than Arrows, James Chesire

    WEEK 14

    12/2-12/4

    ·       Final Lab “Presentations”