This page provides links to syllabi of courses taught by scholars from a variety of institutions across the country. They were assembled as illustrations of how spatial thinking, spatial analysis and GIS are taught in undergraduate programs.

Anthropology

• Human Ecology from Space: Introduction to Remote Sensing in the Social Sciences

• The Human Footprint: The Study of Land Use and Cover Change

• Spatial Demography

Anthropology
• Geospatial Analysis in Archaeology

• Applying Geospatial Analysis

• Archaeological Surveying

• GIS Applications in Archaeology

• GIS Applications in Archaeology

Criminology

• Applied Data Analysis in Criminal Justice

• GIS Applications in Law Enforcement

• GIS for the Social Sciences

• GIS for Criminal Justice

Demography
• Spatial Data Analysis for Social Scientists

• Urban and Regional Analysis

• Migration, Urbanization, and Spatial Demography

• Spatial Demography

Economics
• Housing and the Urban Economy

• Urban Economy

• Resource Economics and Policy Applications of GIS

• Economic Geography

Environment
• Spatial Modeling and Analysis

• Resource Inventory Methods

• Global Positioning Systems

• Environmental Conservation

• Spatial Analysis of Environmental and Social Systems

• Resource Economics and Policy—Applications of GIS

Earth Sciences
• GIS and Spatial Analysis for Earth Scientists (3)
GIS
• Spatial Modeling and Analysis

• Geographic Information Science and Spatial Reasoning

• Spatial Reasoning for GIS

• Geographic Information Systems and Science

• Introduction to Cartography

• Introduction to GIS

History
• Spatial Analysis in Urban Studies/History
Human Geography
• Introduction to Human Geography

• Urban and Regional Analysis

• Rural Spatial Patterns

Political Science
• Ecological Inference

• Spatial Analysis, Interactive Databases, Geographic Information Systems and Social Science Research

• Political Geography

Public Health
• Spatial Epidemiology—Spatial Analysis of Disease Pattern and Process

• Spatial Epidemiology

Sociology
• Spatial Analysis of Social Data

• Spatial Data Analysis for Social Scientist

• Spatial Demography

Spatially Integrated Social Sciences
• Spatial Analysis and Spatial Models

• SpatialAnalysis and GIS

• Spatial Thinking in Social Science

• Spatial Demography

• Integrating GIS into the curriculum

• Introduction to GIS

Urban Studies and Urban Planning
• Urban and Regional Analysis

• Seminar on Location Analysis