A Practicum in Applied GIS

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Meeting time and location: We're scheduled for MW, 10:40 - 12:20, meetings will be online, although most of the course will meet asynchronously. If we need to meet individually or in small groups, it will be in 35 Skok Hall, St. Paul Campus

Instructors: Paul Bolstad (left), Andy Jenks (right)

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ContactEmail: pbolstad@umn.edu, ajenks@umn.edu

About this course

This is a practicum course in the application of GIS methods, integrated across a semester-long project. This is a second or third course in GIS, introducing workflows in spatial data development and analysis.

Course schedule, timelines, instructions, and materials will be distributed primarily through the page https://giscourses.cfans.umn.edu/espm5295

Canvas will be used primarily to turn in assignments and to access User Forums regarding class material. We've created assignment inboxes each week, into which you'll submit various assignment files.

We'll use Citrix Workspace to start remote, virtual computers that have the ArcGIS Pro software we will use in this class. We will provide data and data storage space via a CFANS drive and a student shared drive specific to the course. We've included instructions on how to access the drives via VPN from off-campus in the General 5295 Course Page, linked above. The resource drive will contain instructions, data, and copies of the assignments. The shared drive will be a place for you to store and share large data sets. You should also use a portable disk drive to create backups of your work each time you are in the lab. There are scheduled backups for the shared drives, and recovery procedures, but it is always best to have your own backups as well.

Course modules

ESPM 5295 (001) GIS in Environmental Science and Management (Fall 2020)