GP 295 - GIS Internship

Credit Hours: 4

This course will provide practical hands-on GIS workplace experience in a real GIS work environment. The student will perform GIS tasks and analysis for a private company, government agency, or not-for-profit organization under the supervision of the course instructor and the hosting internship coordinator at the site. The specific GIS activities performed by the student will vary according to placement but will be itemized in a written contract and agreed to by the course instructor, the student, and the hosting organization. Total work hours will be no less than 75 hours and no more than 90 hours for the semester.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

demonstrate a knowledge of a number of important technologies based on geographic information system concepts, spatial database management, spatial data creation, and analysis;
demonstrate a direct application of GIS data tools and algorithms to solve spatial problems;
demonstrate cartographic skills and map creation as an appropriate communication tool to display GIS analysis results;
search, obtain, view, and analyze online GIS datasets; and
practice with analysis of actual local GIS datasets in a cross-disciplinary environment, utilizing software packages such as ESRI ArcGIS.

Prerequisites: GP 250 and discretion of instructor.
F/S (N)