GEO 3010 GIS Approach Global Challenges

Humans live in a global community, with large-scale global challenges such as climate crisis events, pandemics, wars, global market crashes, etc. These problems have wide-spread impacts which can no longer be looked at from a local perspective. Geographical Information Sciences and Technologies are strong spatial tools designed to integrate qualitative and quantitative, multi-disciplinary data into a geodatabase; perform spatial, statistical, and comparative analyses; create models; and present the results in map form. GIS is capable of modeling the results of various courses of action and illuminating the best solution. In cross-cultural studies, it is used to compare and contrast access to healthcare, migration patterns or human rights around the world by incorporating data from anthropology, public health, political science, criminal justice, etc. This course will teach students to acquire data from sources outside of the usual sample sets, and learn to choose tools that will address the question, which will encourage students to take chances and find new ways to look at problems. This will not only provide a technical advantage for our students, but will also empower them to venture beyond application conventions in order to address global challenges in an inter-connected and drastically changing world. This class fulfills UCC Area 6 and is Technology Intensive.

Prerequisite(s): GEO 2030 OR GEO 2010
Credits: 3.0