A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing is required.

Use of geospatial techniques and methods (database design, GIS, GPS, remote sensing, programming) to design and development spatial products and applications.  Students are complete an independent project where they design and develop an application and its associated database. (Prerequisites: GIST 417, GIST 330, GIST 315).

Methods of gathering and analyzing data for the solution of geographical, urban, and regional planning problems, with emphasis on quantitative and statistical techniques used in spatial analysis and cartography, on the one hand, and program planning, on the other.

Computer techniques for analyzing, modeling, and displaying geographic information. Development of spatially oriented problem design and the use of logic are applied to the use of GIS programs. Emphasis on applications in land resources management and planning.