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Fall 2020 | GEOG 1502 Section 001: Mapping Our World (15487)
- 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
Pre-Covid
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (491 of 610 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 Notes:
- This course is completely online in an asynchronous format. There are no scheduled meeting times.
- 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 with 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% Midterm exam
15% Final exam
20% Class participation through 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/15487/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 May 2017
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