GIS Applic in Multi-Culti Geog

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This course offers students a broad overview of modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications at the introductory level using the newest software and techniques. Weekly hands-on exercises provide extensive practical experience using GIS and mapping to examine historical and contemporary settlement patterns of American subcultures covering 150+ years, White European, Asian and Black. Provides students with an understanding these subcultures through the prism of geography, selected GIS applications and social institutions in broad contexts and in separate analyses of racism, socio-economic well-being over time and between racial/ethnic groups.