GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Catalog description

This course offers students an introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), a field of spatial analysis widely used in the social sciences to carry out demographic change analysis, historical data analysis, and environmental modeling. Topics covered in this hands-on course include thematic mapping, small-area estimation of income, well-being and happiness, crime pattern analysis, transport analysis, and environmental justice and policy evaluation. Students completing this hands-on course learn techniques for analyzing and visualizing location-based information to solve real-world problems. (4 credits)