Course Description
Geography 7: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, GEOG 7
Enrollment and waitlists for Spring Quarter 2024 will CLOSE - April 5, 2024 at 5:00pm.
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Designed for freshmen/sophomores. Introduction to fundamental principles and concepts necessary to carry out sound geographic analysis with geographic information systems (GIS). Reinforcement of key issues in GIS, such as geographic coordinate systems, map projections, spatial analysis, and visualization of spatial data. Laboratory exercises use database query, manipulation, and spatial analysis to address real-world problems. P/NP or letter grading.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Los Angeles, Geography
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Course Equivalence: GEOG 80
UC Davis:
Units Credit
UC Irvine:
Unit Credit
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Foundations of Society and Culture: Social Analysis/Social Science, Foundations of Scientific Inquiry: Life Sciences and Physical Sciences, GE lab requirement
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: GEO Elective units
UC San Diego:
General Education: TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Revelle - 1 course toward Social Science GE;
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Course Equivalence: UCSB GEOG 12
General Education: Area C - Science, Mathematics, and Technology
UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: SI
Course Fees
None
More About The Course
There are no regularly scheduled lectures for the course. All course content is made available online at all times via the Moodle course management system.