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University of North AlabamaDepartment of Geography
GeoINT Workshop 2013
• 8 Professors– 5 GISP
• Specialists– Physical Geography– Biogeography– Urban Planning– Climatology– Cartography– Economic Geography– GIS– Remote Sensing
Faculty
• Students (our focus)– ~150 Undergraduate Majors– ~20 Graduate Students
• Three Options for Geography Majors– Geographic Information Science– Business Geography– General Geography
• Geography Minor• Certificate in Geographic
Information Systems• M.S. in Geospatial Science
Curriculum
Courses
• Traditional Geography Coursework• Geographic Information Systems• Image Interpretation• Remote Sensing (with Image
Processing)• Applied Geospatial Analysis (Advanced
GIS)• Cartography• Special Topics (e.g., Quantitative
Methods, GIS Programming)• Geopolitics• Regional Geography (e.g., Middle East)• Co-op/Intern Program
Philosophy
• Spatial thinking and reasoning• Asking spatial questions• Geospatial technology is a tool used
to address these questions• You cannot learn GIS without
DOING GIS!• Students:
– Learn to Think– Learn to Adapt– Learn to Learn
• Writing and Presenting Results
Where:
t=time
f=frustration
h= the zone of near-homicidal rage
Frequency and amplitude of oscillations dependent on the job/tasks
This curve is variable in terms of timing and actual shape… however, observation and experience suggest it is fairly accurate overall.
What we provide:
• Well trained graduates (B.S. and M.S. degrees)• Thinkers/problems solvers NOT ‘button mashers’• Research expertise creating geospatial solutions