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Course Syllabus
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Welcome to Geography 360/560! We are glad you are here. This page contains much text and many links that you will need to have read in order to
reach the objectives for the course. Please refer to this document often! Please also do feel free to ask for clarifications whenever needed. We want
to help you to learn and succeed!
Course Objectives
During the quarter, you will:
understand and apply principles of cartographic design and thematic mapping to create geographic visualizations that are not only technically
sound but also appropriate to the data and to project goals;
understand how information, including spatial and attribute data, is represented and processed in a desktop GIS, as well as what is thereby
technically and societally made possible;
learn how to perform basic analyses within a GIS, including data queries, overlays, reclassifications, and cartographic modeling; and
build skills in the critical analysis of GIS and maps, especially how their development and use are connected to society.
Required Readings
Bolstad, Paul V. (2012) GIS Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems. 4rd ed. Eider Press, White Bear Lake, MN.
Note: You can also buy the digital version at http://www.cafescribe.com/
(http://www.cafescribe.com/) search for Bolstadt.
Price, Marybeth (2013) Mastering ArcGIS. 6th edition, McGraw Hill, New York.
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Requirements
Students must:
attend all class sessions (both lecture and lab);
complete all reading assignments by the date due, before class;
turn in assignments on time; and
participate actively in classroom discussion and group activities.
All written work (except assignments completed in class) is to be submitted typewritten, double-spaced, using a 12-point font and 1-inch margins,
unless otherwise specified.
Deadlines are not flexible. No late assignments will be accepted except in documented cases of emergencies. Papers and assignments
written in fulfillment of requirements for other classes will not be accepted.
Link to more information on getting help, discussing ideas, asking questions, and
communicating in general.
Role of this Canvas Site
This site is a key resource and point of communityyou should visit it often! The current schedule and readings, announcements, requirements,
discussion boards, labs, and links to other important course webpages are all here. The canvas is a living document, evolving with the needs of the
class. It is also a place where members of the class can come together and work, learn, and get to know each other better outside of class and lab.
Open it up every time you are working on 360/560!
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table to the right and add them up to get your overall grade. Note therefore that a point from a quiz is not necessarily worth the same amount to your
final grade as a point from a lab.
For Geography 560 Students: Geography 360 and Geography 560 are evaluated separately, with assignments and criteria that befit the difference
between an undergraduate and graduate course. Standards will be correspondingly higher. Further, 560 students will have the chance to explore and
critically reflect on literature relevant to their research interests in a final writing exercise to be turned in at the end of the quarter.
(https://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/help/academicintegrity.php)
(http://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=478-120)
As described in these documents, the consequences of potential violations can be serious. Suspected violations will be referred to the appropriate
offices of the university.
Accommodations
We welcome the opportunity to work with any students with disabilities in this class to ensure equal access to the course. If you have a letter from
Disability Resources for Students (DRS) outlining your academic accommodations, please present the letter to the professor as soon as possible so
that we can discuss the accommodations you may need for this class. This quarter, some of these notifications from DRS have become electronic,
but any discussions between student and professor need to occur as early as possible in order for adequate arrangements to be made. If you do not
yet have a letter from DRS, but would like to request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact DRS, 448 Schmitz, 206-5438924 (voice) or 206-543-8925 (TTY), or uwdss@u.washington.edu (mailto:uwdss@u.washington.edu) (email).
Late work
It is important to maintain equal opportunity for all students to demonstrate their mastery of the material within an amount of time that is standardized
across the class. Further, it is an important academic skill to be able to demonstrate adequate mastery or produce high-quality analyses on an
assigned topic within a specified period of time. As a result, no late work will be accepted outside of extraordinary circumstances, such as a
documented personal illness, family emergency, or advance arrangement with the instructor.
Quiz Scheduling
All quizzes will be taken at the time and place scheduled, except if a make-up has been scheduled ahead of time due to a documented medical or
family emergency.
Grading
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Requirement
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Points
60
40
200 pts
Grade Changes
Requests for grade changes on assignments will only be accepted in writing, and only within 3 days of the assignment being handed back to
students. Requests must be justified in terms of the content of the assignment, not by outside considerations. All such requests will be considered
first by the TA, then by the course instructor. If you are not satisfied with the decision on a grade change request, you may appeal to the Geography
Department chair.
Misconduct
Plagiarism, cheating, and other misconduct are serious violations of your contract as a student. This class a zero tolerance policy for plagiarism
and/or cheating in my classrooms.
The Student Conduct Code
(http://www.washington.edu/students/handbook/conduct.html) is a part of the Washington State legal code
that explains that admission to the University carries with it the presumption that students will practice high standards of professional honesty and
integrity (WAC 478-120-020 [2] -- www.washington.edu/students/handbook/conduct.html).
This idea is expanded and clarified in the short document Student
(http://depts.washington.edu/grading/issue1/honesty.htm) Academic
Responsibility, which was prepared by the Committee on Academic Conduct in the College of Arts and Sciences. The document provides a
definition of academic misconduct, explains what happens in cases of suspected misconduct, and provides some suggestions for avoiding such
misconduct. http://depts.washington.edu/grading/pdf/AcademicResponsibility.pdf
(http://depts.washington.edu/grading/pdf/AcademicResponsibility.pdf) )
Other information on this issue is available on the UW Faculty Resources for Grading website
(http://depts.washington.edu/grading/conduct/index.html
(http://depts.washington.edu/grading/conduct/index.html) ) it is worth your
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Assignments Summary:
Date
Wed Sep 24, 2014
Details
10:30am to 11:20am
Lab 1 (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580121)
due by 11:59pm
Lab 2 (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580125)
due by 11:59pm
Lab 3 (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580126)
due by 11:59pm
Quiz 1 (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580129)
due by 10:30am
Lab 4 (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580127)
due by 11:59pm
(https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580123)
Lab 5 (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580128)
12am
due by 11:59pm
due by 11:59pm
(https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580124)
12am
due by 11:59pm
event_id=739235&include_contexts=course_916240)
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/syllabus
12am
12am
12am
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Quiz 2 (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580120)
(https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2580122)
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due by 11:30am
due by 11:59pm
Participation (https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/916240/assignments/2684216)
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