2019 Spring Course Info
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Drops and Refunds:
Students adhere to the drop and refund policies and deadlines of their home university.
Course Information
Elective in CD: Introduction to GIS
| University: | Iowa State University |
| Course Number: | CRP 551 |
| Credit Hours: | 3 credit hours - $565 per credit |
| Start/End Dates: | June 11, 2018 - August 03, 2018 |
Course Description
This course introduces students to geographic information systems (GIS). The course includes discussions of GIS hardware, software, data structures, data acquisition, data conversion, data presentation, analytical techniques, and implementation procedures. Laboratory emphasis is on practical applications and uses of GIS.
Contacts
Instructor
Christopher Seeger
cjseeger@iastate.edu
Campus Coordinator
For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Disability Support Services
To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.
Textbooks
TBD
Course Access
Students will receive course information and a welcome letter about 3 weeks prior to the start of class. Then approximately one week before the first day of class at Iowa State University, the ISU campus coordinators (Katie Mott and Casey Smith) will email course access instructions to students for courses taught by Iowa State.
Exam Proctor
This course does not require an exam proctor.
Synchronous Components
This course does not include synchronous components.
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