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An article published on March 2007 Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR) Quarterly by Colorado College faculty and staff about how CC applies GIS in undergraduate research:
Lesson, Outreach, and Research: Three Models of Undergraduate GIS Research at a Liberal Arts College.
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Courses in Humanities
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2006-2007
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PA250/HY200 India and China in the Modern World
(Matson) |
The primary objective of this course is to help students master strategies for critically evaluating nationalist narratives that obscure the extraordinary diversity, tensions and contradictions within each Asian giant, and obstruct our ability to make intelligent comparisons between them.
GIS is used for students to explore the geographic dimensions of gender inequalities in contemporary India and China and to identify significant social phenomenon that are associated with the geographic distribution of sex ratios. |
Courses in Natural Sciences
- 2005-2006
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Description |
BY208 Ecology
(Linkhart) |
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GY260 Surface Processes and Geomorphology
(Leonard) |
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- 2002-2003
Course |
Description |
BY208 Ecology
(Linkhart) |
This course examines distributions, abundances and interrelationships of organisms.
GIS is introduced to study the Ecology in Hayman Fire burn area. |
Courses in Social Sciences
- 2006-2007
Course |
Description |
| EC390 Global Environmental Economics (Smith) |
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This course examines the organizational, political, and institutional conditions that produce and organize environmental degradation, issues of environmental inequality and conflict, as well as the conditions that allow for positive environmental outcomes and potential ecological sustainability.
GIS is used to explore patterns of environmental inequality in the U.S. |
SO229 Sociological Research
(Roberts)
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- 2005-2006
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Description |
EC390 Advanced Topics: The Economics of Technological Change
(Johnson) |
This course focuses on questions about technology change: how and why innovation occurs, what policies and other factors encourage or discourage innovation, and how technologies develop and evolve in their early life.
GIS is used to map locations of innovation and facilitate analysis of relationship between innovation and key actors. |
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This course examines the organizational, political, and institutional conditions that produce and organize environmental degradation, issues of environmental inequality and conflict, as well as the conditions that allow for positive environmental outcomes and potential ecological sustainability.
GIS is used to explore patterns of environmental inequality in the U.S. |
Courses in Interdisciplinary Programs
- 2006-2007
Course |
Description |
| EV311 Water (Drossman) |
An introduction to the physical, geochemical and biological properties of water systems at the level of a watershed.
GIS is introduced to analyze Fountain Creek Watershed. |
SW272 Geographic Inquiry in the Southwest
(Perramond) |
SW272 is the geographic foundation course for the Southwest Studies major at Colorado College. This course focuses on the methods, sources and tools of geography and GIS, with an obvious regional focus on the Greater Southwest for our community-based research problems. The tools, perspectives and logic you pick up in this class can be applied to any other region on the earth. |
- 2005-2006
Course |
Description |
SW272 Geographic Inquiry in the Southwest
(Perramond) |
This course focuses on the methods, sources and tools of geography with a regional focus on the Greater Southwest
GIS and GPS are introduced as tools for spatial analysis and problem solving. As part of the class assignments, students create a proposal on using GIS to address a community-based research problem. |
- 2002-2003
Course |
Description |
SW272 Geographic Inquiry in the Southwest
(Hamann) |
This course will examine the Southwest as a geographic region through learning about the area's physical environment, cultural landscape and environmental issues. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) technology, theory and operation will be introduced. With a working knowledge of ArcView 8.1 - arguably the premier vector GIS software - students will use maps to explore environmental and demographic data, perform spatial analysis and present results as a part of an ongoing project to develop an Atlas of the Southwest. Additional geographic skills will be introduced in the third week and applied to a field project in New Mexico. |
EV311 Water
(Drossman, Hamann) |
An introduction to the physical, geochemical and biological properties of water systems at the level of a watershed.
GIS is introduced to analyze Fountain Creek Watershed. |
EV120 Agroecology
(Meyer, Abeyta) |
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SW200 Landscape & Climate Change in the Southwest
(Hamann) |
This course focuses on the physical, environmental and cultural impacts of changing land use and climate in the Southwest. Includes an extended field trip and the collection of field data to be analyzed using GIS (Geographic Information Systems). |
Top of Page Research
Colorado College
State of the Rockies Project |
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Eric Leonard
Department of Geology
Uses GIS with students to map topography & its relation to geologic processes |
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Brian Linkhart,
Department of
Biology
Analyzes the spatial relationships between raptors and their environment |
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Walt Hecox and students
Department of Economics
Charting the Colorado Plateau |
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Daniel Johnson and students
Department of Economics
Studies the flow of technology and explores factors that may have contributed to this flow over time |
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Ruth Van Dyke,
Department of
Archeology
Uses GIS (viewshed and network analysis) to assess the visual network formed by Chacoan shrines in high places and, hence, the interconnectivity among shrines and outlier communities across the Chacoan landscape. The results of the project will contribute to anthropologists' understanding of social and topographic connections across the prehistoric Chacoan system, and will help archaeologists evaluate the boundaries of the Chacoan world.
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Drew Kundtz
student at Environmental Science program
"The Use of GIS in Site Conservation Planning in the Toledo District of Southern Belize"
(paper) (Power Point)
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Hillary Hamann
Southwest Studies & Environmental Science programs
Uses GIS to map and measure the spatial distribution of snow and frozen soils in alpine watersheds |
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Hillary Hamann
Southwest Studies & Environmental Science programs
Uses GIS with students to map southwest arroyos and analyze change |
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