Geographic Information Systems
Bachelor of Science Degree
Completion of the degree would count toward the educational requirement for GISP (GIS Professional) Certification.
Typical Employment Opportunities
GIS AnalystGeospatial Intelligence Analyst
Geospatial Application Developer
Urban and Regional Design
Agriculture Technology
Natural Resources Analyst
GIS Network Engineer
Epidemiology
Emergency Services
Crime Analysis
Utilities
Local and National Government
GIS Energy Analyst
GIS Transportation and Logistics Analyst
Geographic Information Systems (BS) Program Outcomes:
- Graduates will utilize the scientific method and various informational and analytical tools for solving problems related to human and physical geography.
- Graduates will apply understanding of the importance of space and place in key issues facing contemporary society, combined with the ability use data to solve pressing problems in the environmental sciences, salesforce management, public health, public policy, etc.
- Graduates will debate, quantify, and qualify the interrelationships between human, physical, and biotic systems on the Earth’s surface.
- Graduates will integrate spatial analysis into interdisciplinary research problems.
- Graduates will compose essays that: 1) cogently convey technical information retrieved through independent research; 2) rely on print and/or digital sources of a scholarly nature; and 3) are generally free of grammatical, spelling, punctuation and other errors.
Admission to Farmingdale State College - State University of New York is based on the qualifications of the applicant without regard to age, sex, marital or military status, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability or sexual orientation.
Contact Information
History, Politics and Geography
Dr. Emily A Fogarty
Memorial Hall , Room 230
934-420-2739
hpg@farmingdale.edu
Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
Fall 2024
Subject to revision
| College Requirement | (1 credit) |
| FYE 101 First Year Experience* | 1 |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences | (48 Credits) |
|---|---|
| EGL 101 Composition I: College Writing (GE) | 3 |
| EGL 102 Composition II: Writing About Literature | 3 |
| MTH 110 Statistics (GE) | 3 |
| US History and Civic Engagement(GE) | 3 |
| World History and Global Awareness (GE) | 3 |
| Humanities (GE) | 3 |
| The Arts (GE) | 3 |
| World Languages (GE) | 3 |
| Natural Sciences and Scientific Reasoning (GE) | 3 |
| Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning (GE) | 3 |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences Technical Electives | 6 |
| Liberal Arts & Sciences Electives | 6 |
| Oral Communication | 3 |
| Free Electives | 3 |
| Required Lower Division | (16 Credits) |
|---|---|
| GEO 110 Maps and Map Analysis (GE) | 3 |
| GIS 231 Geospatial Research Methods | 3 |
| GEO 211 The World and Its Peoples (GE) | 3 |
| GIS 222 Geovisualization I | 4 |
| GEO 201 Physical Geography OR | |
| GEO 222 Human Geography | 3 |
| Required: Upper Division | (57 credits) |
|---|---|
| GIS 321 Geovisualization II | 3 |
| GIS 331 Spatial Analysis I | 3 |
| GIS 341 Geoprocessing I | 3 |
| GIS 342 Geodatabase Management | 3 |
| GIS 491 Senior Seminar OR | |
| GIS 492 Internship | 3 |
| Technical Electives 300-400 Level | 21 |
| Free Electives 300-400 Level | 12 |
| 300-400 Level Liberal & Science Electives | 9 |
| Total Credits | 120-122 |
Curriculum Summary
*FYE 101 First Year Experience is required for all first time full time students
Degree Type: BS
Total Required Credits: 121-122
Please refer to the General Education, Applied Learning, and Writing Intensive requirement
sections of the College Catalog and consult with your advisor to ensure that graduation
requirements are satisfied.
As a part of the SUNY General Education Framework, all first-time full time Freshman
at Farmingdale State College (FSC) beginning Fall 2023, are required to develop knowledge
and skills in Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ). Students will
be able to fulfill this requirement at FSC by taking a specially designated DEISJ
course that has been developed by faculty and approved by the DEISJ Review Board.
DEISJ-approved courses may meet other General Education Knowledge and Skills areas
and/or core competencies and thus be dually designated. DEISJ-approved courses may
also earn other special designations such as those for Applied Learning or Writing
Intensive.
Notes:
Liberal Arts Technical Electives
GEO 201 Physical Geography
GIS 201 Mathematical Principles in Geography
GEO 222 Human Geography
GEO 231 Europe and Its Peoples
GEO 232 North America and its Peoples
GEO 290 Topics in Geography
Technical Electives 300-400 Level
GIS 301 GIScience
GIS 302 Remote Sensing
GIS 321 Geovisualization II
GIS 322 Geovisualization III
GIS 332 Spatial Analysis II
GIS 431 Spatial Analysis III
GIS 432 Location Modeling and Analysis
GIS 433 Mapping Applications of Drones
GIS 441 Geoprocessing II
GEO 323 Urban Geography
GEO 325 Globalization and Sustainability
GEO 330 Environmental Interactions
GEO 335 Food Geographies
GEO 340 Geography and Imagination
GEO 350 Place Branding
GEO 355 Geography of Tourism
GEO 370 The Anthropocene Epoch
GEO 390 Special Topics
HIS 306 Transformation of America
HIS 310 Technology and Society Russia-1917-Present
HIS 335 Gender and Technology in Historical Perspectives
HIS 342 The History of Television
PHY 304 Big Data and Society
POL 370 International Relations
POL 371 Geopolitics
POL 320 Internet Politics
SOC 326 Visual Sociology
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