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GIS Course Syllabus Overview

This document provides a course syllabus for a Geographic Information System (GIS) course offered over 2 weeks. The syllabus outlines the course description, goals, outcomes, schedule and rules. The course introduces students to GIS concepts and software. It aims to teach students how to manage and analyze spatial data, create maps, and complete a group project. Topics include spatial data types, vector and raster models, data entry, analysis, visualization and temporal GIS. Students will have lectures, a lab, homework, exams and a project. Attendance and late policies are provided.

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GIS Course Syllabus Overview

This document provides a course syllabus for a Geographic Information System (GIS) course offered over 2 weeks. The syllabus outlines the course description, goals, outcomes, schedule and rules. The course introduces students to GIS concepts and software. It aims to teach students how to manage and analyze spatial data, create maps, and complete a group project. Topics include spatial data types, vector and raster models, data entry, analysis, visualization and temporal GIS. Students will have lectures, a lab, homework, exams and a project. Attendance and late policies are provided.

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Faculty of Applied Engineering and

Urban Planning
Civil Engineering Department

Geographic Information System GIS

Course Syllabus

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Week 2

2nd Semester 2019/2020


Course Description

 This course was designed for a two-week lecturing


module on the principles of geographic information
systems, to be taught.
 The course introduces students to GIS terminology, the
concept of relational databases, spatial data models,
topology, raster data and vector data. Data entry
methods, including quality control and metadata are
discussed. The student is introduced to spatial analysis
applications including terrain analysis, data
manipulation and visualization. Students apply
knowledge in the laboratory using GIS software.

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Course Goals
By the end of the course we expect students
to be able to explore the following :

 Spatial data and Geographic information systems.


 The use spatial data and maps.
 Raster layers.
 Vector layers.
 Use GIS software to analyze spatial data.

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Course Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, the


student should be able to:
 
 Manage the spatial references of different data
sources.
 Manipulate and interrogate layers in a GIS.
 Create basic maps with the necessary elements
for users to interpret.

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Topic Week
General introduction about GIS Week 1
General introduction about GIS Week 2
Spatial Data Types Week 3
Vector data model Week 4
Raster data model Week 5
Data entry and preparation Week 6
Data entry and preparation Week 7
Mid-term Exam Week 8

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Topic Week
Data Processing system Week 9
Spatial analysis Week 10
Spatial analysis Week 11
Visualization of information. Week 12
Visualization of information. Week 13
Visualization of information.
Week 14
Temporal GIS
Week 15
Final Exam Week 16

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Class Rules

minutes 10

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Class Rules
Exams are closed book and notes.

Any absences will be dealt with according


to University policy.

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Class Rules
GIS
8:00-9:00 Sunday 101
Tuesday
GIS Lab
12:00-02:00 Sunday 1011
12:00-02:00 Tuesday 1012

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Class Rules
 Homework assignment will be due at the
beginning of class the following week. Late
submissions will not be accepted.
 You will have a GIS project as a group work.
you can consult your peers to have a suitable
projects. You may not copy a whole ready
project from a previous classmate. If you do so,
you and your group will be given zero credit for
that project.

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Class Rules
You must show all steps of your project at word.
Merely writing the correct answer may not fetch
you any points.

Some steps of project will include problems to


be solved using MS Excel spreadsheets,
Autocad. In this case, you may be required to
submit either the Excel file or a screenshot of
your work, or both.

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Next Class
Nextlecture
Be Read for General introduction about GIS.

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