{"id":145,"date":"2015-09-10T16:50:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2015-09-10T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:58:31","slug":"learning-gis-at-vassar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/resources\/learning-gis-at-vassar\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning GIS at Vassar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take one of the courses listed below, and let your instructor know you are interested in learning more.\u00a0Look for summer projects that involve mapping, and let members of the department know if you want to volunteer on projects or practice applying GIS in class projects or in other contexts.<\/p>\n<p>GIS and geospatial mapping courses at Vassar College that specifically focus on GIS tools and applications include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GEOG\/ESCI 220 \u2013 Cartography: Making Maps with GIS<\/li>\n<li>GEOG\/ESCI 224 \u2013 GIS: Spatial Analysis<\/li>\n<li>GEOG 228 \u2013 Web Mapping: Advanced Approaches to Publishing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GIS is an important part of many courses in Earth Science and Geography, Anthropology, and other departments on campus. Some of these\u00a0include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GEOG 102 \u2013 Global Geography: People, Places, and Regions<\/li>\n<li>GEOG\/ESCI 260 \u2013\u00a0Conservation of Natural Resources<\/li>\n<li>GEOG 256 \u2013 Geographies of Food and Farming<\/li>\n<li>GEOG\/URBS 356 \u2013 Environment and Land Use Planning<\/li>\n<li>ESCI 151 \u2013 Earth, Environment, and Humanity<\/li>\n<li>GEOG\/ESCI 340 \u2013 Arctic Environmental Change<\/li>\n<li>ANTH 100 \u2013 Archaeology<\/li>\n<li>ANTH 170 \u2013 Topics in Anthropology<\/li>\n<li>ANTH 231 \u2013 Topics in Archaeology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take one of the courses listed below, and let your instructor know you are interested in learning more.\u00a0Look for summer projects that involve mapping, and let members of the department know if you want to volunteer on projects or practice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/resources\/learning-gis-at-vassar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5039,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions\/146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/gis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}