Geographic Information Systems Graduate Certificate (50-996)

Effective October, 2017, this program was placed in inactive status and is no longer available to students.

By completion of the Geographic Information Systems Graduate Certificate program, students will be:

• Skilled in geographic data collection, spatial data base development, and data manipulation.
• Skilled in spatial data analysis, modeling, output interpretations, and model calibrations.
• Able to read and analyze remotely-sensed images and integrate spatial and aspatial data.
• Skilled in computer mapping and related forms of graphic representation.
• Able to apply advanced theoretical principles and geo-techniques to real world data to solve problems.
• Familiar with new literature.

The student may hold an undergraduate degree in any field. There are no course prerequisites in geography or cognate fields, although course work in map interpretation, cartography, and data management would facilitate GIS skills development. Graduate Record Exam scores are not required by the department. The student must be accepted admitted by the Graduate College; he/she must also submit a separate application with undergraduate transcripts directly to the department.