Geospatial Humanities: Digital Mapping and Critical Geographic Information Systems

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

(Formerly numbered 131.) Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 101 or consent of instructor. Introduction to digital mapping and critical geographic information systems. Study of basic data types including geographic, structured, and unstructured. Students engage with fundamental mapping practices such as geolocating structured data, working with open data through web mapping technologies, georeferencing historical maps, and creating location-based narratives and visualizations. Through project-based learning, students discover how to manage and apply data to wide range of digital mapping technologies. Consideration of how to incorporate these concepts into humanities and social sciences research. Concurrently scheduled with course C231. Letter grading.