Undergraduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science

This cross-disciplinary certificate is designed for undergraduates who wish to pursue a GIS-related career. The certificate is awarded to students completing the following 19 semester hours with a grade of ā€œCā€ or higher. Please note that any candidate to the certificate program must be enrolled as degree-seeking student in any college at ASU.

Twelve of the 19 hours must be taken at ASU at the Tempe campus.

Required Courses

Course name Credit Hours
CSE 100 Principles of Programming with C++ or CSE 110 Principles of Programming with Java 3
GCU 495 Quantitative Methods in Geography 3
GPH 370 Geographic Information Technologies 3
GPH 373 Geographic Information Science I 4
GPH 473 Geographic Information Science II (Capstone course) 3

Elective Courses (Choose one course below)

Course name Credit Hours
ABS 485 GIS In Natural Resources 3
CSE 181 Applied Problem Solving with Visual Basic CS 3
GCU 361 Urban Geography SB 3
GCU 441 Economic Geography SB 3
GCU 442 Geographical Analysis of Transportation SB 3
GCU 484 Internship 3
GPH 371 Introduction to Cartography and Georepresentation CS 3
GPH 372 Air Photo Interpretation 3
GPH 471 Geographics: Interactive and Animated Cartography and Geovisualization CS 3
GPH 481 Environmental Geography 3
GPH 483 Geographic Information Analysis 3
GPH 484 Three credit hour GIS-based internship 3
PLB 434 Landscape Ecological Modeling 3
 
Total (Required and Elective) 19

For more information and advising, please contact the following advisor:

Undergraduate Advisor
Duncan Shaeffer
shaeffer@asu.edu
480.965.3652