The final course of the Evergreen GIS Certificate is an opportunity for students to integrate their GIS skills and knowledge to design and execute a field study utilizing geospatial analysis. The final product will be the creation of a culminating portfolio map and story map. Having a portfolio can help students who seek future opportunities in GIS employment, or research, or community mapping engagement with non-profit organizations.
During this course students will design and create a mapping project based on a topic of personal interest to them. Faculty will engage with students early in the quarter to help develop project goals, suggest field methods and locations, and discuss appropriate GIS analysis approach and presentation possibilities.
The final project development will rely on the skills learned in previous courses, in desktop mapping (ArcGIS Pro software), using field surveys (Survey123), Excel (for data management), and integrating remote sensing data (such as satellite imagery, drone imagery, or lidar data). Student data layers will be shared into ArcGIS Online where students will create one or more web maps. Students will then configure a final story map, using web-app formats which appropriate to their final project topic and the data and analysis methods pursued by each student.
Students will present their final story map during the final class meeting of the summer quarter. The presentations will show the story map and other project content in a digital screen setting, using a projector and/or Zoom.
Registration
This is the culminating course of the GIS Certificate. Students must have completed and earned full credit in the following classes to enroll in this course:
GIS: Introduction and PrinciplesGIS: Mapping with ArcGIS ProGIS with Remote Sensing ImageryGIS Mapping in ExcelGIS Publishing Story Maps and AppsGIS for Field Data CollectionStudents need to verify pre-requisites with faculty prior to registration.
Academic Details
This offering is connected to the undergraduate Geographic Information Systems Certificate at Evergreen. For more information visit: https://www.evergreen.edu/certificates/geographic-information-systems
This class will offer up to 4 credits in upper division science credit with completion of required work.