FREC 480: GIS in Natural Resource Management
COURSE SYLLABUS Instructor: John Mackenzie office: Townsend 215 office hours: Wednesdays 2-3PM or by appointment office phone: 831-1312 home phone: 453-0859 cell: 373-3723 FREC Dept. fax: 831-6243 e-mail: johnmack@udel.edu The class meets
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30-2PM in the Geography Dept.
GIS lab, Room 218 Pearson Hall
Grading: This course is entirely lab-based; there are no quizzes or exams. 100% of your course grade will be determined by the completeness and correctness of your lab projects. All lab projects are to be submitted as web pages; I will teach you basic web authoring techniques during the first three weeks of class. These are not group projects; they are individual projects. You may consult with other students on how to tackle specifric aspects of your project, but all projects you submit must be entirely your own work. The final project is to be done outside of class. I recommend that you choose a topic and get started on it by mid-semester. Course Objectives: Develop basic spatial analysis skills using vector and raster geographic information systems. This course teaches GIS concepts, functions and applications via hands-on training with ArcGIS v9. Prerequisites: prior microcomputer course or thorough familiarity with microcomputers is expected. Texts, Etc.: There is no textbook to buy, but you
should buy a 2GB or larger
USB jump drive for storing your coursework. Get a skinny one; the
frames on some computers make it tough to get fat ones into all USB
ports. You will be responsible for keeping track of your work
files.
You will be posting your projects on UD's copland server,
and will need additional disk quota to store everything.
Request a disk quota change to obtain 100MB of quota
on the "usra" file system through
IT/NSS (you will have to log in for authentication).
It will take 24 hours for your additional quota to appear.
(To check your quota allocation and usage, type "quota -v" at the copland
prompt.)
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