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Introduction to GIS

Course Course Title Class Lab/ Shop Clinical/ Co-op Credit
GIS 111 Introduction to GIS 2 2 0 3
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Effective Term: Summer 1997

This course introduces the hardware and software components of a Geographic Information System and reviews GIS applications. Topics include data structures and basic functions, methods of data capture and sources of data, and the nature and characteristics of spatial data and objects. Upon completion, students should be able to identify GIS hardware components, typical operations, products/applications, and differences between database models and between raster and vector systems. This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a pre-major and/or elective course requirement.

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