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1. Overview
Overview
2. Checklist
3. Learning Environments
4. Course Management System
5. Course Text
6. Roles and Responsibilities
Student Responsibilities
7. Assignments
8. Communication
9. Three Habits of Successful Learners
10. Summary
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GEOG 160: Mapping Our Changing World

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Orientation

1. Overview
Overview
2. Checklist
3. Learning Environments
4. Course Management System
5. Course Text
6. Roles and Responsibilities
Student Responsibilities
7. Assignments
8. Communication
9. Three Habits of Successful Learners
10. Summary
Summary

Lessons

Chapter 1: Location is Where It’s At: Introduction to GIScience and Technology
Chapter 2: Shrinking and Flattening the Globe: Scale, Projections, and Datums
Chapter 3: Can I Map That? Maps to Depict Anything in Our World
Chapter 4: Encoding Our World: Geographic Data Representation
Chapter 5: How We Know Where We Are: Land Surveying, GPS, and Technology
Chapter 6: Can We Get There From Here? Applications of Topology, TIGER, and Geocoding
Chapter 7: Remote Sensing: Imaging Our World
Chapter 8: Representing Surfaces
Chapter 9: Geo-Analytics: From Data to Answers

Joshua Stevens, Jennifer M. Smith, and Raechel A. Bianchetti (2012), Mapping Our Changing World, Editors: Alan M. MacEachren and Donna J. Peuquet, University Park, PA: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University.

Adapted from DiBiase, David, The Nature of Geographic Information (http://natureofgeoinfo.org), with contributions by Jim Sloan and Ryan Baxter, John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University.