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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 40003
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 3451A
Undergraduate Research I.  (1 to 3 credits)

or

BIO 3451B
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 42851
Internship in Geography I.  (1 to 6 credits)

or

GEO 42852
Internship in Geography II.  (1 to 6 credits)

or

GEO 42853
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 2000G
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 2025-2026 EIU Undergraduate Catalog.

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