GIST - Minor in Geographic Information Systems and Technology
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Program Description
Craft Invaluable Technical & Thinking Skills in the Rapidly Expanding Field of Geographic Information Science
One of the most highly sought after skills you can have in today’s scientific, business, and professional spaces is first-hand experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Not just for geographers anymore, GIS is being increasingly used to support a wide variety of jobs and disciplines in environment, government, business, technology, and big data.
Geographic Information Science is the study of geography through the lens of digital technology. A Geographic Information System (GIS) is an integrative approach to help solving complex spatial problems in most professional fields and at different scales. GIS has irrevocably altered the way we capture, store, analyze, and visualize spatial information.
The GIS & Technology minor prepares you to use the technology to address real-world problems and to communicate effectively complex information to a diverse audience. helps planners, nonprofit agencies, environmental scientists, biologists, and business owners to make site location decisions and solve urban and environmental problems. The spatial thinking and analysis inherent in GIS are skill sets that are valued by many disciplines including environment and sustainability, law enforcement, homeland security, public health, business and marketing, communications and media, political science, and history.
In the GIS & Technology minor, we incorporate courses across a broad spectrum of GIS applications into your coursework, as well as several electives ranging from a course in Drone and UAV piloting to GPS. With this particularly special set of tools in your toolkit, combined with what you’ve learned and can execute in your major, the next steps in your career are incredibly promising and exciting.
One of the most highly sought after skills you can have in today’s scientific, business, and professional spaces is first-hand experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Not just for geographers anymore, GIS is being increasingly used to support a wide variety of jobs and disciplines in environment, government, business, technology, and big data.
Geographic Information Science is the study of geography through the lens of digital technology. A Geographic Information System (GIS) is an integrative approach to help solving complex spatial problems in most professional fields and at different scales. GIS has irrevocably altered the way we capture, store, analyze, and visualize spatial information.
The GIS & Technology minor prepares you to use the technology to address real-world problems and to communicate effectively complex information to a diverse audience. helps planners, nonprofit agencies, environmental scientists, biologists, and business owners to make site location decisions and solve urban and environmental problems. The spatial thinking and analysis inherent in GIS are skill sets that are valued by many disciplines including environment and sustainability, law enforcement, homeland security, public health, business and marketing, communications and media, political science, and history.
In the GIS & Technology minor, we incorporate courses across a broad spectrum of GIS applications into your coursework, as well as several electives ranging from a course in Drone and UAV piloting to GPS. With this particularly special set of tools in your toolkit, combined with what you’ve learned and can execute in your major, the next steps in your career are incredibly promising and exciting.
Degree Designation
Minor
Program Level
Minor