Geospatial Technologies, Graduate Certificate
View ChecksheetMinimum Total Hours: 12
Program Code: G042
Masters students in the existing degree program may be focused in physical geography, human geography, or applications of geotechnologies to geographic questions. For this certificate, however, we recommend a subset of existing courses to focus on one or more of the following: geographical information systems (GIS), remote sensing (RD), or management of geodatabases associated with GIS, RS, or other geospatial technologies.
The embedded certificate consists of a minimum of 12 hours consisting of at least four courses, at least two of which are required to have the GIS prefix.
Certificate Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals 1 | ||
| GIS 5013 | Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems | 3 |
| or GIS 5133 | Fundamentals of Remote Sensing | |
| Techniques | ||
| Choose at least two courses from the following: | 5-6 | |
| Spatial Statistics | ||
| Spatial Programming and GIS | ||
| Intelligent Data Analytics | ||
| Database Design and Administration | ||
| Visual Analytics | ||
| Advanced/Applied Courses 2 | ||
| Choose at least one course from the following: | 3-4 | |
Geographic Information Science Track | ||
| GIS Applications | ||
| Advanced GIS and Spatial Analysis | ||
GEOG 5623 | ||
| Geographic Information Systems for Land Use Planning | ||
| Special Topics/Seminar (Topic: Advanced GIS) | ||
Remote Sensing Track | ||
| Digital Image Processing | ||
| Remote Sensing Hydrology | ||
| Environmental Remote Sensing | ||
| Weather Radar Theory and Practice | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 12 | |
| 1 | If the student previously finished a fundamentals course as an undergraduate, they should take a second course from the Advanced/Applied list instead. |
| 2 | If students started in the Geographic Information Science track, they should continue in this track when choosing Advanced/Applied courses. If students started in the Remote Sensing track, they should continue in this track when choosing Advanced/Applied courses. |
A graduate certificate is not a graduate degree. A graduate degree represents a program of independent inquiry beyond the depth of coursework alone, while a graduate certificate represents a set of courses only.
- All courses must be taken at OU. No transfer credit will apply.
- No course substitutions are permitted for graduate certificates.
- Coursework applied to a graduate certificate cannot be more than five years old as of the semester the graduate certificate is awarded.
- Students must earn a grade point average of 3.00 or higher on all coursework applied to the graduate certificate.