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Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Geography
296 Dow Science Complex
Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, MI 48859
or by email:
patto1d@cmich.edu
Master of Science GISci
Admission Requirements:
All applicants
must submit scores for the general GRE. To receive full
consideration for financial support beginning in a fall
semester, all application materials must be received in the
Department of Geography no later than March 15. Applicants should
allow approximately one month for materials submitted to the
College of Graduate Studies to be processed and forwarded to the
department.
Students entering the M.S. GISci program are required to have
a sound knowledge of the fundamental concepts of cartography,
GIS, and remote sensing. It is also expected that M.S. GISci
students have a basic knowledge of a computer language,
calculus, and statistics as these are skills necessary to
understand, manipulate, and develop the analytical methods and
algorithms that are the foundations of advance training in
Geographic Information Science. A minimum 3.0 GPA in the
student’s undergraduate major is required.
Faculty and Assistantship
Information
Thesis and non-thesis plans are available. Students can
concentrate their studies in cartography, GIS, and/or remote
sensing. Currently, six of the department’s tenure/tenure-track
faculty maintain teaching responsibilities exclusively in the
area of GISci, while several others maintain part of their
teaching load in GISci. Teaching and research interests of
GISci faculty include: geographic visualization, cartography,
geographic information systems, spatial cognition, spatial
statistics, spatial modeling, remote sensing, and digital image
processing. Graduate assistantships are available and include a
10-month stipend as well as waiver of 20 hours of tuition per
year.
Program Requirements
include (33 credit hours):
A.
Required Courses (21 hours)
GEO500 Advanced
Cartography
GEO503 Geographic
Information Systems
GEO508 Digital Remote
Sensing
GEO512 Quantitative
Methods for Spatial Analysis
GEO701 Contemporary
Spatial Data Management
Two courses from
the following:
GEO600 Dynamic
Mapping and Visualization
GEO603 GIS Design and
Programming
GEO608 Advanced
Remote Sensing
A student satisfying
any of the required courses or their equivalents prior to entering
the program may be excused from these courses. Other courses will
be substituted with the approval of the advisor. Credits from
these courses will be applied to the 21 hours of required
courses. A student must receive a minimum grade of C in each
course to have their course work approved for the graduate
program.
B.
Electives (6-9 hours)
Two or three 500 to
700 level courses in a technical or cognate field(s) in
consultation with the advisor.
Technical courses
might include relevant computer science mathematics, and or/
statistics courses or special topics courses in cartography,
remote sensing, geographic information systems, or global
positioning systems.
Cognate courses might
include relevant biology, earth science, geography, geology,
political science, or other courses that would complement the
student’s area of specialization. A student must receive a
mini8mum grade of C in each elective course.
C.
Thesis or Research Project Options (3-6 hours)
GEO798 Thesis (Plan
A)
GEO797 Directed
Research in Geographic Information Sciences (Plan B)
Please consult the
CMU Graduate Studies Bulletin for additional information.
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