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GEOG 3900 is also offered in Fall 2024
GEOG 3900 is also offered in Spring 2024
GEOG 3900 is also offered in Fall 2023
GEOG 3900 is also offered in Spring 2023
GEOG 3900 is also offered in Fall 2022
GEOG 3900 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2024 | GEOG 3900 Section 001: Topics in Geography -- Environmental Data Analysis (67512)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Meets With:
GEOG 5900 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 440
- Enrollment Status:
Open (16 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Special topics/regions covered by visiting professors in their research fields.
- Class Notes:
- Introduces students to scientific programming commonly used in environmental research with an emphasis on open-source languages and tools (e.g., R, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, tidyverse, ggplot, etc.). Coursework will include best practices in experimental design and data collection, interacting with different data structures, data cleaning and wrangling, hypothesis testing, and basic data visualization. No prior experience with coding (R, Python, etc) is required for this course.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67512/1243
Spring 2024 | GEOG 3900 Section 002: Topics in Geography -- GIS and Public Health (67513)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 415
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Special topics/regions covered by visiting professors in their research fields.
- Class Notes:
- This course teaches the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) and its applications to public health. Through lectures, student-led discussions, and laboratory exercises, students will explore how GIS can be used to understand the relationships between people, their changing physical and social environments, and their health. Throughout the course, students will engage commonly used geospatial methods applied in public health for mapping and analyzing geographic variation. In particular, we will cover the following topics: health-related events, identifying disease clusters, investigating environmental health problems, and understanding the spread of communicable and infectious diseases such as West Nile and Lyme disease. Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to have sufficient background to become expert users of GIS applications in health-related fields. The Department of Geography, Environment, and Society is planning on teaching Geography and Public Health as a topics course for the third time this spring and is asking for dispensation to do so. This course was designed by a new P and A teaching faculty that we hired last year. The plan was for him to teach it in Spring of 23 and Spring of 24 as a topics course and submit the proposal for it to become a regular course in Fall of 2023. Due to some changes in staffing for this Fall, he was unable to teach one of the courses we planned on him teaching and we had him teach GIS and Public Health a second time as a topics course. We are about to send the syllabus of the course out for consultation and plan on having the course go through the necessary approval process in November for it to be a regular course. This will not give us enough time to get it on the books as a regular course for Spring of 2024. After this year, the plan is to return the course to an every spring offering. We have been trying to limit the number of new preps that our P and A faculty have to prepare in a ye
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67513/1243
Spring 2024 | GEOG 3900 Section 003: Topics in Geography -- Digital Mapping for Impact: Geo-Hacking to Change (67683)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 455
- Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Special topics/regions covered by visiting professors in their research fields.
- Class Notes:
- Digital maps can change the world. They tell stories that can affect the direction of cities, states, business, countries, and the lives of individuals who use geo-technologies day-to-day. But how do you make these maps and get them into the hands of the people who need the information? This course gives students practical skills in neocartography - the process of map-making by hacking consumer web-based geotechnologies - and illustrates the way geotechnology is embedded at the intersection of technology and society. By the end of this course, you'll have the foundational skills required to quickly gather, store, and analyze data and share maps to tell compelling spatial stories. You don't need to be an expert in geospatial technology to make powerful digital maps. Whether you're an ecologist, activist, planner, journalist, nonprofit or business leader, this class will show you how to hack maps for impact. No technical background required for success in this class. All are welcome.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67683/1243
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