Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Certificate

15-16 credit hours

Only degree-seeking Lindenwood undergraduate students are eligible to earn this career certificate.

In the Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), you work to develop the necessary skills to successfully and confidently apply the software in a variety of professions, including urban planning, health sciences, data analysis, environmental sciences, business, and many others. As a part of the coursework, students will examine the range of sources that can be combined to build a GIS database, including aerial imagery, scanned historic maps, raw data, and data collected from Global Positioning Systems. A certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) requires 15 hours of course work, including:

Requirements

Certificate Coursework

12 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

GEO 20000Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

3

GEO 20400Remote Sensing

3

GEO 30000Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

3

GEO 40100Internship in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

3

Note: all students earning the GIS Certificate must complete a formative educational experience such as an internship, courses that are field-work intensive, study abroad, and so on. Relevant instances of such experiences completed in other programs may substitute for the GEO 40100 requirement at the discretion of the program.

Elective Coursework

3-4 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

BSC 24800Introduction to Ecology and Evolution

4

CSC 10011Introduction to Computer Science: Python

3

GEO 10100World Regional Geography

3

GEO 10300Human Geography

3

GEO 11500Physical Geography

4

GEO 20700World Economic Geography

3

GEO 30200Droning and Coding

3

HIST 30200Public History

3

MTH 14100Basic Statistics

3

MTH 24100Statistics for Natural Science

3