GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research

Course Offerings

Currently Skidmore offers the following courses that use GIS:

SSP 100: Location and GIS - A first year experience course (Scribner Seminar) that uses GIS and mapping to explore international issues, the environment - especially as it relates to Skidmore's North Woods, various national socio-economic issues, the 2006 election, and numerous aspects of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans.

ID 210: Introduction to GIS - An introduction to GIS theory, issues, methodology, applications, and data. The course will run through a wide variety of GIS uses across disciplines. It will enable students to be self-sufficient, project-oriented GIS users.

EC 361: Economic Geography - An analysis of geographic issues in economics using GIS technology to study international issues including population, resource location, industrial location, transportation and commerce geography, international trade, economic development, urban geography, the city and its internal structure, systems of cities, neighborhoods, migration, etnicity, poverty, core and edge, environmental problems, and urban planning.

Other - Several courses at Skidmore use GIS technology and the GIS center for one or more of its classes. These courses in the past have included Environmental Biology, Field Studies in Environmental Studies, Field Techniques (Geosciences), Hydrology (Geosciences), Climatology, Exploration of the Solar System, Sociology of the Family, Women's Studies Senior Seminar, Women in the Global Economy, Marketing and Management Information Systems.

The GIS Center is also used in numerous senior projects, independent studies,and student research projects.