Course Number: IS270
Course Title: Geographic Information Systems

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

General

The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its applications in several disciplines such as planning, mapping, and land and utilities management. The course uses ESRI's Arc View GIS, desktop GIS software.

Specific

Students will be able to: (needs to be expanded)

1. Describe what GIS is; what it does; how it works; and how to make information presentable.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of how to use ArcView GIS for entering data and classifying , displaying & symbolizing themes
3. Demonstrate how to work with spatial data.
4. Query data by selecting map features in a view
5. Enhance GIS features by managing tabular data.
6. Analyze spatial relationships
7. Present information using charts.
8. Create their own data, shapefiles and editing shapes in a theme.
9. Use internet and other GIS resources and applications.
10. Use Arc View's programming Language called Avenue for customizing ArcView.