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GIS: Geographic Information Systems (Minor)

About the Program

The GIS (geographic information systems) minor allows students to gain the depth of knowledge needed for many of the jobs available today requiring spatial analysis skills and geographic data processing capabilities. GIS applications are found in many fields; business planning and operations management, epidemiology, criminology, land use planning and economic development, environmental management and conservation, military operations, emergency management, infrastructure management, transportation planning, operations and management, and library sciences. The GIS minor provides students in any discipline the background and skills to use the technology to support better decisions in their field of interest.

About the Geography and Planning Department

A213 Classroom Building
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-6216
Fax: (716) 878-4009
www.buffalostate.edu/geography/

Contact Faculty and Staff in the Geography and Planning Department

Program Requirements

Total Credit Hours: 18 credits

A. Required Courses (12 credits)
GEG/PLN 325 Remote Sensing and Mapping
GEG 425 Fundamentals of GIS
GEG 429 Advanced Topics in GIS

Choose one from the following:
GEG 405 Urban Analysis Using GIS
GEG 427 Corporate Applications in GIS
GEG 428 Environmental Assessment and Planning Applications in GIS
GEG 485 Interactive and Web-based mapping

B. Computer Information Systems and Statistics Electives (6 credits)
Non-Majors:
GEG 390 Quantitative Methods in Geography and Planning or an equivalent upper-level statistics course

Majors - Select two courses from the following:
Non-majors - Select one course from the following:

CIS 151 Computer-based Information Processing I, and
CIS 251 Computer-based Information Processing II
or CIS 361 Fundamental Concepts in Object Oriented Programming
CIS 375 Programming for the Internet Environment
CIS 475 Programming for the Internet Environment II

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