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GGRB30 Fundamentals of GIS

Course?Description

This course provides a practical introduction to a geographic information?system?(GIS)?for digital mapping. The course provides hands-on experience with GIS to create and?analyze geographic data and create effective maps. We cover?GIS?approaches?and?methods?relevant?to?Geography and many other disciplines. In the lectures, we discuss?concepts?from?geography, geographic information and spatial analysis, and their implications?for?GIS.?In the practice?exercises and assignments, you perform. your own data management, analysis and?mapping?in?ArcGIS, the most widely used GIS software.

Student?Learning?Outcomes

By the end of?this course, you?should be?able?to:

1. ????????Define basic?geographic concepts such as?scale,?accuracy, precision,?spatial?referencing, and projections.

2. ????????Collect geographic and tabular data to create maps using?ArcGIS?Pro?considering

measurement levels, spatial frameworks, data selection,?summarizing,?and?querying.

3. ????????Record geographic locations using GPS and edit the?collected?data using?ArcGIS.

4. ????????Create maps for qualitative and quantitative data?using?common?mapping?techniques.

5. ????????Assess the effectiveness of?common map types, particularly choropleth and proportional symbol maps.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course. However, GGRA30H3 is recommended?as?preparation. This?course?is?a?prerequisite?for?GGRB32H3.

Land Acknowledgement

The concepts and tools we will learn in this course?are directly?connected?to?the places?we inhabit. It is therefore mandatory for us to start with an?acknowledgement?of?the Aboriginal peoples in whose colonized territory we now live and?study:

We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is?the?traditional territory?of?the?Wendat, the?Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Métis, and?the?Mississaugas?of?the?Scugog, Hiawatga, and Alderville First Nation. We also acknowledge that Toronto?is?covered by?Treaty?13 signed with the Mississaugas of?the Credit, and the Williams?Treaties?signed with?multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.

We?wish?to?acknowledge?this?land?on?which?the?University?of?Toronto?operates. For?thousands?of years it has been the traditional land of?the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca,?and most recently,?the?Mississaugas of?the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to?many?Indigenous ?people from across Turtle Island and we are?grateful to?have?the?opportunity?to?work?on?this?land.

Course?Readings?and?Materials

Textbook

We will use Longley, Goodchild, Maguire, and Rhind’s (2015)?Geographic?Information Science?& Systems (4th Edition)

(https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/permalink/01UTORONTO_INST/14bjeso/alma9911068?94874206196)?as the main companion to this course. This book will be?referred as?Textbook?from now on.

Supplementary?Readings

Please refer to the detailed schedule for each week’s readings. When indicated,?we will?use supplementary reading materials. All supplementary readings will be available via Quercus.

Keep in mind that the list of?resources below is not exhaustive. For instance,?we will?use?several materials edited by ESRI not listed below.

? ??Bolstad, P.?(2016).?GIS?fundamentals:?A?first?text?on?Geographic?Information?Systems.?5th ed. White Bear Lake,MN: Eider Press.

????Dent, B. D., J.?S. Torguson, and T.W. Hodler (2009).?Cartography:?Thematic Map?Design. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

????Kimerling, A. J., A. R. Buckley, P. C.Muehrcke, and J.?O.Muehrcke?(2011).Map?Use:?Reading?Analysis?Interpretation. 7th?ed. Esri?Press. 610 pp. ISBN: 9781589482791.

????Roberts,?S. and C. Robertson (2016).?Geographic Information Systems and Science:?A?Concise Handbook of Spatial?Data Handling, Representation, and Computation.

DonMills, Ontario: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-900363-1.

Software?Requirements

We will use ArcGIS Pro (or ArcGIS for short) since the?start?of?the term.?I?assume?you?have?no?prior experience with this software, but that you have experience organizing and managing?files?on a personal computer running Microsoft Windows.

The TAs and I will provide detailed instructions on how to?get?a?license through?the?University and install ArcGIS on your computers. In the meantime,?you may check the?Map?and?Data?Library’s?ArcGIS?resources:https://mdl.library.utoronto.ca/technology/tutorials/arcgis-pro-?information-tutorials-and-workshops

Evaluation?Components

Type????????????????????????????Description?????????????????????????????????????Due?date????????????????????????????????Weight

Attendance and In- Class Reading Quizzes	Weekly opportunities to participate using Mentimeter	Ongoing	15%
Assignment?1	Introduction to ArcGIS and?Global Positioning	Sep.?24	10%
Assignment 2	Projections and querying?geographic data	Oct.?8	10%
Assignment 3	Digitizing and?editing geographic attribute data	Nov.?5	10%
Assignment 4	Introductory quantitative?mapping (choropleth and?proportional symbols)	Nov. 26	10%
Midterm	Ten multiple-choice questions and three short-answer?questions.	Oct.?22	10%
Final Exam	Ten multiple-choice questions,???two short-answer questions,?and?one?essay	TBA	35%
Opportunities for?bonus marks Grading	Attending tutorials	Ongoing	Up?to?2%

Attendance?and?In-Class?Reading?Quizzes?(15%)

You are expected to attend class. I will record your?attendance using Mentimeter.?During

lectures, I will ask questions from that week’s readings that you will?answer?using your personal?device (smartphone, tablet, or laptop). You will earn one percentage point?of?your?grade?per

class you attend. Answering any of?the questions I ask?during?lectures will?grant?you?the??attendance point automatically.?Since there are?12 weeks of?classes, you can earn up?to?12?percent?of?your?participation?grade?by?attending?every?lecture.

At the end of?each lecture, I will ask one?graded?question?on?content?from?the?assigned

reading(s) for that week. You may earn half a percentage point for?answering the?question

correctly. This means that you may accrue up to 6 points throughout the?semester.?However,?the?grade for attendance and participation is capped?at?15 percentage points.

Tutorial?Attendance?and?Exercises?(up?to?2%?bonus)

You are expected to attend tutorials. Attending tutorials and completing?the?exercises?may?add?you up to two percent of?bonus marks to your final?grade.?There?are?9?tutorials?throughout???the?semester. If?you?attend?and?complete?the?exercises?of:

-????5 tutorials, you earn?1 percent bonus.

-????Between 6 and 8 tutorials, you?earn?1.5?percent?bonus.

-????All 9 tutorials, you earn 2?percent?bonus.

Short?Assignments?(40%)

You will complete four short assignments throughout the semester. Assignments?are?designed?to?help you get hands-on experience with ArcGIS. In completing them, you will?deepen your

understanding?of?important?geographic?concepts?and?methods?underlying?the?software’s

operations. Each assignment has two main components: (1) an ArcGIS?output?(e.g., maps),?and

(2) a short write-up answering?a?few?questions.

Assignments will be graded on a 20-point scale. Grades?are?divisible?only by half?points?(e.g.,

6.5, 7, 7.5, etc.). The four assignments?will be?averaged?and?divided by?2.?Combined,?they?are

worth?40 percent?of?the?final?grade. Please?refer?to?the?Late?Work?Policysection?for?instructions regarding late assignments.

Midterm?(10%)

The?midterm?is?composed?often?multiple-choice?questions?and?three?short-answer?questions.

Some of?the questions may have multiple items to complete. The multiple-choice questions?will test your familiarity with the concepts and discussions from lectures,?while?the?short-answer

questions will ask you to elaborate on the tools you have learned using ArcGIS.

The test will be graded on a 20-point scale. Each multiple-choice?question?is?worth?1 point,?while?the short-answer ones will be worth between 3 and 4 points?each. The?midterm?is?worth?10

percent of?your final grade. The test will take up to?1 hour 40?minutes?to?complete?during?the????lecture time of?week 8, October 22nd. During the test you will not have access to books,?notes, nor electronic devices except for basic?calculators.

Final?Exam?(35%)

The final exam will be cumulative, covering topics from the?entire term.?The?exam will?consist?often?multiple-choice?questions, two?short-answer?questions, and?one?essay.?Some?of?the

questions will include multiple items to complete. The multiple-choice questions will ask you?to?connect concepts and definitions. Meanwhile, the short-answer questions will test your?grasp?of geographic concepts using the ArcGIS interface. Finally, the essay will ask you to?combine

concepts and methods in addressing?a problem.

The exam will be graded on a 35-point?scale,?and it?is worth?35 percent?of?your?final?grade.?Each?multiple-choice question is worth?1 point. The two short answer questions?are worth?5 points

each. The essay is worth?15 points. The test will take up to 2 hours?during the?examination

period. During the exam, you will have access to a hand-written cheat-sheet?(to be?submitted?along your exam), a basic calculator, and a ruler. You?will not have?access books, notes,?nor??electronic devices.