University of North AlabamaDepartment of Geography

GeoINT Workshop 2013

• 8 Professors– 5 GISP

• Specialists– Physical Geography– Biogeography– Urban Planning– Climatology– Cartography– Economic Geography– GIS– Remote Sensing

Faculty

• Students (our focus)– ~150 Undergraduate Majors– ~20 Graduate Students

• Three Options for Geography Majors– Geographic Information Science– Business Geography– General Geography

• Geography Minor• Certificate in Geographic

Information Systems• M.S. in Geospatial Science

Curriculum

Courses

• Traditional Geography Coursework• Geographic Information Systems• Image Interpretation• Remote Sensing (with Image

Processing)• Applied Geospatial Analysis (Advanced

GIS)• Cartography• Special Topics (e.g., Quantitative

Methods, GIS Programming)• Geopolitics• Regional Geography (e.g., Middle East)• Co-op/Intern Program

Philosophy

• Spatial thinking and reasoning• Asking spatial questions• Geospatial technology is a tool used

to address these questions• You cannot learn GIS without

DOING GIS!• Students:

– Learn to Think– Learn to Adapt– Learn to Learn

• Writing and Presenting Results

Where:

t=time

f=frustration

h= the zone of near-homicidal rage

Frequency and amplitude of oscillations dependent on the job/tasks

This curve is variable in terms of timing and actual shape… however, observation and experience suggest it is fairly accurate overall.

What we provide:

• Well trained graduates (B.S. and M.S. degrees)• Thinkers/problems solvers NOT ‘button mashers’• Research expertise creating geospatial solutions