MSGIST - In Person

The MSGIST is a 3 semester, 30 graduate credit hour program. The in-person degree begins in January and concludes in December.  Classes are held Monday through Thursday evening from 6p until 9p at the main University of Arizona campus in Tucson.  

Descriptions for each course can be found here.

MSGIST COURSES

No credits can be transferred from other courses or programs to substitute for the requirements of the MSGIST or GIST certificate.

Student must complete three sequential semesters of coursework totaling 30 graduate credit hours. (The semesters offered for the in-person degree are listed in parentheses).

In the first semester (Spring), students take the following two 6-credit courses:

  • GIST601: Intro to Geographic Information Systems & Technology I
  • GIST602: Intro to Geographic Information Systems & Technology II

In the second semester (Summer Pre-Session and First Summer Session), students take the following 6-credit course:

  • GIST603: Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Technology I

In the third semester (Fall), students take the following two 6-credit courses:

  • GIST604: Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Technology II
  • GIST909: Master's Project in Geographic Info Systems Technology

GIST 501B: Remote Sensing Science (3 units)

This course provides an introduction to the scientific principles and practices of remote sensing.  Topics that will be covered in this course include issues of spatial resolutions, the electromagnetic spectrum, remotely sensed sensors, spectral characteristics, digital and digitalization issues, multispectral and LiDAR image processing and enhancement, and land-use and land-cover classifications (LULC) and change detection. The course also emphasizes integration issues and analysis techniques that arise when merging remotely sensed data with geographic information systems (GIS). 

GIST 501A: Geographic Information Science (3 units)

This course will introduce the fundamental concepts of geographic information systems technology (GIST).  It will emphasize equally GISystems and GIScience.  Geographic information systems are a powerful set of tools for storing, retrieving, transforming and displaying spatial data from the real world for a particular set of purposes.  In contrast, geographic information science is concerned with both the research on GIS and with GIS.  As Longley et al.

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