Geospatial Technologies, Graduate Certificate

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Minimum Total Hours: 12

Program Code: G042, G043 (Online)

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

Fundamentals 1
Choose two of the following Fundamentals courses:6
Spatial Data Management for GIS Professionals
Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems
Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
Techniques
Choose at least one course from the following:3
Spatial Statistics
Spatial Programming and GIS
Advanced/Applied Courses 2
Choose one of the following Advanced/Applied courses:3
Geographic Information Science Track
GIS Applications
Advanced GIS and Spatial Analysis
Environmental Spatial Modeling
Geography of Health and Disease
Patterns and Processes in Landscape Ecology
Remote Sensing Track
Drones and Remote Sensing
Digital Image Processing
Remote Sensing Applications
Advanced Remote Sensing
Total Credit Hours12
1

If the student previously finished a fundamentals course as an undergraduate, they should take an additional 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.