Maps as New Media

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This course focuses on Maps, Mapping, and Geographic Experience. Students will gain hands-on experience with technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPSs), Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS & T), remote sensing, mobile device mapping applications and map-based games. Through active, hands on, experiential learning, students will learn how to use GIS & T to create geographical experiences. GIS & T is a support mechanism for spatially-oriented thinking, reasoning, literacy, and problem-solving. Such problems include international disaster management, climate change, and sustainable development. This honors seminar is a foundational course that examines how our social worlds are linked to our physical, technological and material worlds. The corresponding emphasis on inquiry, analysis, and interpretation facilitates student-engaged learning. In exploring pertinent issues/topics through an experiential, active, and site-specific curricular focused learning, various aspects of the human condition are discovered. The honors seminar integrates the required Year One curriculum.