Geographic Information Sciences Minor

Total Semester Hours: 21

Required Courses: 6 hours

GEO 3810

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. (3 credits)

GEO 3820

Remote Sensing I. (3 credits)

9 hours from:

BIO 4820

Spatial Analysis for Environmental Sciences. (4 credits)

GEO 3825

Lidar Mapping. (3 credits)

GEO 3830

GIS: Building Geodatabases. (3 credits)

GEO 3870

Remote Sensing II. (3 credits)

GEO 3875

Field Methods. (3 credits)

GEO 4000

Techniques Seminar. (1-3 credits)

GEO 4810

Cartography and Geographic Data Visualization. (3 credits)

GEO 4910

GIS Programming. (4 credits)

6 hours from:

BIO 3810

Freshwater Ecology. (3 credits)

BIO 4810

Plant Ecology. (4 credits)

BIO 4812

Fisheries Ecology and Management. (3 credits)

BIO 4814

Conservation Biology. (3 credits)

BIO 4850

Wildlife Techniques. (4 credits)

BIO 3451

Undergraduate Research I. (1 to 3 credits)

BIO 3451

Undergraduate Research II. (1 to 3 credits)

BIO 4840

Resource Management and Environmental Assessment. (3 credits)

GEO 3275

Planetary Geology. (3 credits)

GEO 3410

Climatology. (3 credits)

GEO 3780

Land Use Planning. (3 credits)

GEO 4285

Internship in Geography I. (1 to 6 credits)

GEO 4285

Internship in Geography II. (1 to 6 credits)

GEO 4285

Internship in Geography III. (1 to 6 credits)

GEO 3430

Structural Geology. (3 credits)

GEO 3440

Tectonics. (3 credits)

MAT 1271

College Algebra. (3 credits)

(College Algebra OR HIGHER)

MAT 1330

Analytical Trigonometry. (2 credits)

(Analytical Trigonometry OR HIGHER)

PLS 2000

Introduction to Public Affairs. (3 credits)

PLS 3623

Public and Nonprofit Management. (3 credits)

PLS 4763

Environmental Politics & Policy. (3 credits)

PLS 4793

Civic and Nonprofit Leadership. (3 credits)

PLS 4893

Budgeting in Government and Nonprofit Organizations. (3 credits)

SOC 3660

Social Organization. (3 credits)

SOC 3820

Environmental Sociology. (3 credits)

SOC 4240

Sociology of Disasters. (3 credits)

Information sourced from the 2026-2027 EIU Undergraduate Catalog.

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