A few quick points:

• This course will be asynchronous, which means that you will be responsible for viewing the lectures and completing the work on your own schedule.

• I will be available to talk with you one-on-one as needed throughout the course to help with issues along the way (and I am sure there will be many!) with weekly (virtual) office hours and by appointment.

• We are using advanced software for this class and we will need to navigate how to manage this as some of you will not have access to the software, or possibly a stable internet connection. I will do my best to help you navigate these obstacles.

What to expect

This course will be a mix of reading, discussion and computer work. I’m going to introduce you to basic geographic concepts and we’re going to quickly move into working with geographic information systems to reinforce these concepts. This course really is somewhat of a guinea pig for the fall semester geography courses so I anticipate we will run into some issues with computers and software. Thus, it is extremely important that in these first few days of class, you work to identify potential problems. I will be providing an exercise to work through as a way to check for potential issues so that we can try to catch as many of them as early as possible.

We will be using Piazza to help facilitate class discussion and as a platform to ask questions that others may also have. Click here to go to our course page.

Materials

We will be reading Essentials of Geographic Information Systems, which is a free and open source textbook.

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