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Geospatial information plays an increasingly important role in many cutting-edge industries, including agriculture, engineering, environmental science, disaster recovery, health, social science, and digital humanities. The U.S. Department of Labor has defined geospatial technologies as one of the major areas of job growth in the coming decade, with a recent survey showing that the average salary for people with related GIS certification is $10k more than those who do not. A systematical training in geospatial information skills not only allows students to integrate data from various domains but also provides them additional analytical methods to reveal relationships that may not be obvious in traditional analyses.
At Purdue University, geospatial information have been applied in all the academic units. Students enrolled in this Certificate Program will not only learn about GIS from introduction to advanced analysis, but also have the opportunity to apply geospatial information in a variety of disciplinary projects. Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies is pleased to be the home for the Graduate Certificate Program in Geospatial Information Science (GIS).
The Graduate Certificate Program in Geospatial Information Science will provide a systematic training program in the area of geospatial information application, analysis, and management for post-baccalaureate students of all disciplines. The program will help students secure fundamental knowledge and skills in acquiring, integrating, analyzing, evaluating, and managing geospatial information across multiple disciplines, in addition to exploring advanced topics in their own application areas.
The program will include four 3-credit courses in four different categories: introduction courses, advanced topics, application courses, and a project-based practice course. These courses are offered from various departments on campus with the goal to provide a complete yet flexible learning system for students to get systematic training.
The certificate is available for both currently enrolled degree seeking students and nondegree seeking students.
ASM 540: GIS Applications CE 508: Geographic Info Systems ILS 595: GIS Research Methods ANTH 523: GIS for Humanities and Social Science Research
AAE 523: Introduction to Remote Sensing AGRY 545: Remote Sensing of Land Resources FNR 558: Remote Sensing Analysis and Applications CE 507: Geospatial Data Analytics CE 597: Geospatial Modeling and Analysis CS 531: Computational Geometry EAPS 507: Introduction to Analysis and Computing with Geoscience Data CGT 670: Applications in Visual Analytics ILS 595: Geodata science with ArcGIS&python STAT 598: Applied Spatial Statistics
ABE 527: Computer Models in Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering ABE 529: Nonpoint Source Pollution Engineering ABE 651: Environmental Informatics AGRY 565: Soils and Landscapes FNR 598: Advanced Spatial Ecology and GIS AAE 575: Introduction to Satellite Navigation and Positioning CE 549: Computational Watershed Hydrology CE 506: Adjustment of Geospatial Observations CE 503: Digital Photogrammetric System CE 525: Built Environment Modeling ANTH 605: Seminar in Ethnographic Analysis ANTH 641: Discovery and Design: Making Projects Work EAPS 527: Principles Of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology EAPS 541: Geodetic Data and Applications EAPS 577: Remote Sensing of the Planets CGT 575: Data Visualization Tools and Applications AT 519: Aviation GIS Applications
ILS 590: Independent Study - GIS Capstone Experience
