Certificates

Geographical Information Systems Certificate

Adviser: Daniel DePodesta, Practitioner-in-Residence in Biology and Environmental Science, M.B.A., Quinnipiac University

The certificate in geographical information systems (GIS) provides professional training in the technology and application of computerized cartography and spatially referenced databases. GIS is an increasingly important technology in environmental sciences, urban and regional planning and management, marketing, criminal justice, communications, and energy and natural resource protection. Coursework provides knowledge of basic and advanced GIS techniques, developing procedures and databases for specific applications, as well as technologies and analyses supporting GIS. The program is flexible in order to accommodate students new to GIS as well as those who already have some experience with this technology.
Students entering this program are required to have a working knowledge of personal computers.

EN 640 Introduction to Geographical Information Systems
EN 641 Geographical Information System Techniques and Applications I
EN 642 Geographical Information System Techniques and Applications II
EN 643 Application of GIS in Environmental Science or
EN 690 Research Project

Total credits: 12

Students having previous GIS experience may substitute, with the adviser’s approval, other courses for EN 640 and/or EN 641. Suggested substitutions, depending on a student’s area of interest, may include, but are not limited to, the following:

CJ 612 Criminal Justice Management
EN 600 Environmental Geoscience
EN 608 Landscape Ecology
EN 620 Advanced Environmental Geology (4 credits)
EN 690 Research Project
EN 695 Independent Study I
MK 609 Marketing