| New course | Undergraduate |
| First term offered : Spring 2011 | ||
| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| CJ-246 | Introduction to GIS | 4 - 0 |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Intro to GIS |
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Catalog Description: This course is the second in a series of Geographic Information Science courses and will focus on the development of skills and techniques used to create, analyze, and display spatial data in a geographic information system. Prerequisite CJ-245 or equivalent. |
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Course Goal and Objectives: The objectives of this course are to acquaint students with spatial queries, data joins, data editing, geocoding (address matching), and analsis of raster data. |
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Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course is the second in a series of courses supporting the Crime Analysis Certificate. |
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Faculty and facilities needed: Adjunct faculty |
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Brief Course outline: This course is offered in a hybrid lecture and laboratory format. Students will receive classroom lectures and instruction, and be assigned lab assignments that will be done outside of class. Students will also participate in a team project to focus on applying GIS mapping and analysis skills to evaluate existing community hazard evacuation routes and propose alternative scenarios to improve hazard evacuation. |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Stephen Gibbons | Approved | October 08 2010 |
| 2 - Division | John Rector | Approved | October 11 2010 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Shaun Huston | Approved | October 13 2010 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Robert Monge | Approved | January 31 2011 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Gavin Keulks | Rejected | February 14 2011 |
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Comments: Deans & higher please reject -- approved by accident in curriculum committee; rejecting here as requested by that committee's chair |
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