Earth and Environmental Science-Geographic Information Science, B.S.
This program will produce essential GIS professionals to serve fast-growing urban communities through partnership and collaboration with local government, agencies, and organizations. The program aims to prepare students with recent information, technology, and a wide range of competencies, including but not limited to critical thinking, problem-solving and quantitative reasoning. Students will be able to understand the concepts and principles of GIS and its real-world applications. Students are expected to analyze and interpret scientific data and assess information integrity quantitatively.
GIS forms the “geospatial backbone” of a family of Spatial Literacy-related competencies (NRC, 2006; Goodchild, 2006) that constitute one of the “Top Ten” fastest-growing disciplines of the 21st century (U.S. Dept. of Labor 2017). GIS is highly inter-and multi-disciplinary, as evidenced by the fact that it is mentioned in IPEDS job designations in both Science and Sociology. Spatial literacy is on the same level as competencies, such as quantitative reasoning and communication.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Major Core Curriculum | 30 | |
EESC 252 | GIS I: Contemporary Applications of GIS | 3 |
CS 252 | Programming for All in Python and Computer Science Principles | 3 |
EESC 350 | GIS II: Contemp Analysis w/GIS | 3 |
CS 306 | Data Base Design | 3 |
EESC 455 | GIS III: Modeling with GIS | 3 |
EESC 325 | GIS for the Urban Community | 3 |
EESC 460 | GIS IV: Web-Based GIS | 3 |
EESC 465 | GIS V: Remote Sensing and Raster GIS | 3 |
EESC 470 | GIS VI: Advanced Applications of GIS | 3 |
EESC 451 | Guided Study | 3 |
Major Electives | 12-18 | |
ART 185 | Computer Graphics | 3 |
ART 286 | Plotting Global Climate Change: Information Graphics for Sciences | 3 |
CS 209 | Data Structures | 3 |
CS 302 | Programming Languages | 3 |
CS 365 | Advanced Java Programming | 3 |
CS 409 | Introduction to Data Science | 3 |
ECON 203 | Business Statistics | 3 |
or PSYC 230 | Statistics for Social Sciences | |
EESC 235 | Global Climate Change | 3 |
EESC 250 | Plunder: The Race for Natural Resources | 3 |
HIST 245 | Cities in History | 3 |
HIST 313 | Urban America: The City in American History | 3 |
POLI 140 | 3 | |
SECU 210 | Introduction to Intelligence | 3 |
SECU 350 | Intelligence Analysis | 3 |
SOCI 230 | Cities of Industry: Sociological Perspectives | 3 |
Required Geography Foundation Courses | 9 | |
HIST 131 | Metropolitan New York | 3 |
EESC 121 | Mapping the City | 3 |
EESC 226 | Earth 360:Integrated Geography | 3 |
Freshman | ||
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Semester 1 | Credits | |
ENGL 101 | English Composition I | 4 |
MATH 112 | Intermediate Algebra | 3 |
CS 120 | Computers and Information Technology | 3 |
EESC 121 | Mapping the City | 3 |
Credits | 13 | |
Semester 2 | ||
ENGL 102 | English Composition II | 4 |
HIST 131 | Metropolitan New York | 3 |
CS 252 | Programming for All in Python and Computer Science Principles | 3 |
General Education Tier l Course | 3 | |
General Education Tier l Course | 3 | |
Credits | 16 | |
Sophomore | ||
Semester 1 | ||
MATH 140 | Statistics I | 3 |
EESC 252 | GIS I: Contemporary Applications of GIS | 3 |
EESC 226 | Earth 360:Integrated Geography | 3 |
CS 306 | Data Base Design | 3 |
General Education Tier ll Course | 3 | |
Credits | 15 | |
Semester 2 | ||
MATH 175 | Enhanced Precalculus | 4 |
EESC 350 | GIS II: Contemp Analysis w/GIS | 3 |
General Education Tier ll Course | 3 | |
General Education Tier ll Course | 3 | |
General Education Tier ll Course | 3 | |
Credits | 16 | |
Junior | ||
Semester 1 | ||
EESC 325 | GIS for the Urban Community | 3 |
EESC 455 | GIS III: Modeling with GIS | 3 |
GIS Elective | 3 | |
GIS Elective | 3 | |
GIS Elective | 3 | |
Credits | 15 | |
Semester 2 | ||
MATH 192 | Calculus and Analytic Geometry I | 4 |
EESC 460 | GIS IV: Web-Based GIS | 3 |
GIS Elective | 3 | |
GIS Elective (or Minor) | 3 | |
GIS Elective (or Minor) | 3 | |
Credits | 16 | |
Senior | ||
Semester 1 | ||
EESC 465 | GIS V: Remote Sensing and Raster GIS | 3 |
EESC 451 | Guided Study | 3 |
GIS Elective (or Minor) | 3 | |
GIS Elective (or Minor) | 3 | |
GIS Elective (or Minor) | 3 | |
Credits | 15 | |
Semester 2 | ||
EESC 470 | GIS VI: Advanced Applications of GIS | 3 |
GIS Elective (or Minor) | 3 | |
GIS Elective (or Minor) | 3 | |
GIS Elective (or Minor) | 3 | |
Elective | 2 | |
Credits | 14 | |
Total Credits | 120 |