GIS is a powerful tool used to solve queries, link databases to maps, create visual representations of statistical data, and analyze how locations influence features and events.
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Our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) minor will prepare you with the skills necessary to analyze and solve spatial problems and identify geographic patterns.
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You will study where things are, how they got that way, and learn to identify patterns in how things are distributed. You will receive hands-on experience with state-of-the-art GIS and GPS equipment.
Well-qualified GIS specialists are in demand in the areas of business administration, community and government organizations, crime prevention and emergency response, environmental science, social science, and physical sciences, land-use and transportation planning, property management and real estate, supply chain management, and urban and regional planning agencies.