< checklist for ADVISORS >This certificate may be completed by OSU graduate students, in good standing, from any department, any degree program on campus. The graduate certificate consists of 19 credit hours. S/U or P/NP grades are not acceptable. Students are required to complete two "core" courses, the prerequisites for which have been streamlined so that students may begin the certificate after completing introductory cartography, trigonometry, and basic statistics courses.
The core courses are supplemented by elective courses totaling 12 or more credits. Students will select courses in one of three possible tracks with the exact classes being determined in consultation with a GIScience advisor.
All 19 credit hours of courses MUST be listed on the LEFT side of the required graduate program form that a student submits to the Graduate School.
UCGIS GIS&T Body of Knowledge Topics in Geosciences Courses (pdf)
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Background Courses:
GEO 360, Cartography (4) [F] or equivalent experience MTH 112, or equivalent high school or university course(s) Basic statistics: ST 201/ST 202, or ST 351/ST 352 or ST 511/ST 512, or ECE 353 (for engineers)
Required Core Courses: (8 credits)
GEO 544, Remote Sensing of the Environment (4) [F] GEO 565, Geographic Information Systems and Science (4) [W]
Elective Courses: (11 credits minimum, chosen from below)
CE 513, GIS in Water Resources (3) [Sp] CS 549, Selected Topics in Information-Based Systems (1-5) [occasional] CS 553, Scientific Visualization (4) [W] CSS 568, Soil Landscape Analysis (4) [Sp] FOR 520, Advanced Aerial Photos and Remote Sensing (3) [F] [alternate, even years] FOR 521, Spatial Analysis of Forested Landscapes (3) [F] [alternate, odd years] GEO 541, Spatial-Temporal Variation in Ecology and Earth Science (4) [F] [alternate, odd years] GEO 545, Computer-Assisted Cartography (3) [W] GEO 546, Advanced Landscape Ecology (3) [W, canceled for W08] GEO 560, Multimedia Cartography (4) [Sp] [alternate, even years] GEO 566, Digital Image Processing (3) [W] [alternate, odd years] GEO 580, Advanced Applications of GIS in the Geosciences (4) [Sp, not offered in 2008 due to sabbatical, but returning in 2009] GEO 599, Public Participation GIS: Special Virtual Seminar in GIScience (3) [Fall 07 - one time only] GEO 585, Advanced Techniques in Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing (3) [Sp] [alternate, odd years] HORT 514, Information Systems in Agriculture (4) [W] OC 678, Satellite Oceanography (3) [F] [alternate, odd years] SOC 599, Rural Communities and Demography (4) [Fall 07 - one time only, for now] ST 565, Time Series and Spatial Statistics (3) [Sp, alternate, even years] GEO or FOR 510, Internship (3-4) [any term, as arranged, and of a GIScience nature]
Use guidelines from CSS or GEO.
The elective courses may be in one of three tracks. Typical tracks are listed below as EXAMPLES, and are not exhaustive of all possible combinations of courses.
Cartography
GIS
Remote Sensing
GEO 539
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