The request to revise GEOG 4132/5132 and GEOG 4150/5150

Date: April 29, 2016
To: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
From: Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: April 20, 2016
Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Committee
, Approved by: Graduate Council
Implementation Date: Spring 2017

Note: Deletions are strikethroughs. Insertions are underlined.

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GEOG 4132 (43) Prerequisite: GEOG 4120 3120 or permission of instructor. Theories and practices of spatial modeling with social and economical applications. Topics include: overview of modeling in human geography, socioeconomic data sources, and building and evaluating spatial models. Examples of models covered in class include: spatial accessibility, interaction, diffusion, tipping points, segregation (simulation), geodemographic/segmentation, and Markov models (stochastic).

Theories and practices of spatial modeling with social and economical applications. Topics include: (1) simulation models for land use change, smart growth, object movement, and homeland security planning; (2) integrated models – spatial – non-spatial, topological – ontological, deterministic – stochastic; (3) agent-based models. Lab exercises employ various spatial modeling tools.

GEOG 5132 (43) Prerequisite: GEOG 5120 or permission of instructor. Theories and practices of spatial modeling with social and economical applications. Topics include: overview of modeling in human geography, socioeconomic data sources, and building and evaluating spatial models. Examples of models covered in class include: spatial accessibility, interaction, diffusion, tipping points, segregation (simulation), geodemographic/segmentation, and Markov models (stochastic).

Theories and practices of spatial modeling with social and economical applications. Topics include: (1) simulation models for land use change, smart growth, object movement, and homeland security planning; (2) integrated models – spatial – non-spatial, topological – ontological, deterministic – stochastic; (3) agent-based models. Lab exercises employ various spatial modeling tools.

GEOG 4150. Spatial Database Development with GPS and GIS. (43) Prerequisite: GEOG 4120 3120 or permission of instructor. The fundamentals of database management systems and their relevance in GIS. Emphasis placed on the effective creation, maintenance, and retrieval or data from a spatially enabled database. Topics include: relational database theory and design, entity-relationship diagrams, Structured Query Language (SQL), spatial queries, geodatabase design. (Fall or Spring) Tutorials, readings, projects, and discussions of how geo-technologies can be used to create digital geographic databases: designing conceptual databases using entityrelationship approach, transforming GPS data, georegistering scanned base maps, digitizing vector features, entering attribute data, and developing Mobile GIS applications

GEOG 5150. Spatial Database Development with GPS and GIS. (43) Prerequisite: GEOG 5120 or permission of instructor.The fundamentals of database management systems and their relevance in GIS. Emphasis placed on the effective creation, maintenance, and retrieval or data from a spatially enabled database. Topics include: relational database theory and design, entity-relationship diagrams, Structured Query Language (SQL), spatial queries, geodatabase design. (Fall or Spring) Tutorials, readings, projects, and discussions of how geo-technologies can be used to create digital geographic databases: designing conceptual databases using entityrelationship approach, transforming GPS data, georegistering scanned base maps, digitizing vector features, entering attribute data, and developing Mobile GIS applications