NEW COURSE PROPOSAL |
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Originator |
Don
Stierman,
x2860, mailto:dstierm@utnet.utoledo.edu |
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College |
Arts
and Sciences |
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Department |
EEES |
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Level |
Graduate |
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Program Change |
No |
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Type of Course |
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Alpha Code |
EEES-6800/8800 |
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Title |
Digital Field
Mapping
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Starting |
Spring
2005 |
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Enrollment |
10 |
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Cross-Lists/Levels |
Yes |
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Hours |
Fixed:
3 |
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Delivery Mode |
Field
Lab 1; Regular Lab 1; Lecture 1 |
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Frequency |
Spring,
every year |
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Reg. >1/semester |
No |
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Repeat for Credit |
No |
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Grading |
Normal
(A-F, PS/NC. PR, I) |
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Pre-/Co-requisites |
EEES-2500
or Permission of Instructor |
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Catalog Description |
Technology
and techniques for determining locations and elevations during field surveys;
transferring field measurements to a digital database; total station, GPS and
other tools used in ecological and geological research. |
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Syllabus |
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Curriculum Fit |
Most graduate research in
EEES involves field projects that require surveying, GPS and/or GIS. This course will instruct students using
hardware and software available within our Department. |
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Similarity to Other Courses |
This
course includes some material taught in GEPL 5180 (Geographic Information
Systems Application), GEPL 5510 (Geographic Information Systems) and GEPL
5520 (Analytical and Computer Cartography).
This course differs in several aspects: (1) this new course emphasizes
hands-on field experience with tools needed to generate spatial information
in settings ecologists and geologists are likely to encounter; (2) GIS
emphasizes the practical and pragmatic synthesis of field data with
computerized mapping – students who require depth of knowledge in theoretical
cartography are better served in taking courses offered by GEPL; (3)
analytical GIS tools essential to social sciences are not emphasized.
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