Department of Computer Science - The University of Iowa

The informatics major with a geography cognate requires a total of 48 semester hours, with at least 23 of them drawn primarily from Geography courses.

The cognate requires the following core courses:

044:001 Introduction to Human Geography	4 s.h.
044:003 Introduction to Earth Systems Science	4 s.h.
044:005 Foundations of GIS	3 s.h.
TOTAL	11 s.h.

Students must also complete one course among:

044:010 The Contemporary Global System	4 s.h.
044:011 Population Geography	3 s.h.
044:015 Introduction to Political Geography	3 s.h.
044:019 Contemporary Environmental Issues	3 s.h.
044:030 The Global Economy	3 s.h.
044:035 World Cities	3 s.h.
TOTAL	3 s.h.

and one of these:

044:110 GIS for Environmental Studies: Introduction	3 s.h.
044:112 Mapping American Cities and Regions	3 s.h.
044:180 Field Methods in Physical Geography	3-4 s.h.
044:181 Field Methods in Social/Environmental Geography	3 s.h.
TOTAL	3-4 s.h.

and any two of:

044:105 Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing	3 s.h.
044:110 GIS for Environmental Studies: Introduction	3 s.h.
044:112 Mapping American Cities and Regions	3 s.h.
044:113 Principles of Geographic Information Systems	3 s.h.
044:125 Environmental Impact Analysis	4 s.h.
044:128 GIS for Environmental Studies: Applications	3 s.h.
044:136 Planning Livable Cities	3 s.h.
044:137 Health and Environment: GIS Applications	3 s.h.
044:139 Spatial Analysis and Location Models	3 s.h.
044:205 Advanced Geographic Remote Sensing	4 s.h.
TOTAL	6-8 s.h.

Note: students are encouraged to work with an Informatics faculty advisor to develop and get approval for personalized cognate course sets. We expect to expand and refine this cognate's course set based on student goals and creation of new informatics-related cognate courses.

Last modified: August 14, 2007


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