Fall 2019  |  GEOG 1502 Section 001: Mapping Our World (18910)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
Enrollment Status:
Closed (410 of 410 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Learn how maps and other spatial technologies like phones, drones, and GPS work. Use web-based tools to make maps for class, jobs, and fun. Explore how mapping is a useful lens through which to view interactions between technology and society, and see how mapping technology saves lives, rigs elections, and spies on people.
Class Description:
We learn how maps and other spatial technologies like phones, drones, and GPS work. We use professional web-based tools to make maps for class, jobs, and fun. Along the way, we see how mapping is a useful lens through which to view interactions between technology and society, and see how map technology saves lives, rigs elections, and spies on you and everyone else. All materials are free, including online textbook, labs, and web-mapping tools. This class fulfills TWO LE requirements, the Social Sciences Core and the Society and Technology Theme.
Who Should Take This Class?:

Anyone interested in maps, society, and technology.

The course is completely online and flexible. You may complete most things any time during the week, but for some activities, you work with your instructor, TAs, and fellow students over a one-day or two-day window.

Meets two liberal education requirements: Social Science Core + Technology and Society Theme.

All materials are free, including online textbook, lab materials, and web-mapping software.
Learning Objectives:

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to read, use, and create maps informed by a contextual understanding of how maps reflect the relationship between society and technology. They will understand how mapping is an essential form of social science inquiry and how mapping helps us understand the social world and issues such as land use planning and political gerrymandering. Students will gain hands-on experience making their own maps with a variety of technologies, ranging from paper and pencil to web-based maps and satellite data, and gain insight into underlying engineering and science of geospatial technologies. This course can be used to gain insight into the technical underpinnings of mapping as a social science approach for later courses, complement on-going interest and activities, or provide an applied focus for research or policy.

Grading:

We focus on participation in interactive online exercises and activities, completing online labs, and two online exams.


15% First midterm exam (online, open-book, and multiple choice)

15% Second midterm exam (online, open-book, and multiple choice)

20% Online exercises and activities

50% Online labs with web-mapping and other technologies
Exam Format:
There are two mid-term exams; there is no final exam. Both exams are multiple choice and open book.
Class Format:

All parts of the class are online:


30% Lecture

20% Discussion

20% Small group activities

30% Web-based labs


Workload:

10 Pages reading per week

10 Pages writing per semester

2 Exams (online, open-book, and multiple choice)

Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18910/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 May 2017

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