Print- This course is designed to allow you to explore this (potentially new) topic of Location Intelligence for Business. The course is structured so that if you do work at least a couple times a week, you will succeed. If you wait until the end of the week or when a project is due to begin, you may do poorly.
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You should plan your work on readings, activities, and research so you can communicate thoughts, findings, screen shots, etc., generally speaking, on Tuesday --this allows us to gather our thoughts, share, and come back to material throughout the week. You are welcome to complete readings and activities at your own pace as long as you're checking in at the semi-weekly intervals.
- The syllabus and reading assignments are sourced from a wide variety of disciplines and authors. While some articles seem dated from 2011, 2015, or the geography models from 1970's, the material is valid and still applies to your education and application of location intelligence principles. Each time I consider dropping a key reference, on re-reading the material it just fits in the course to understand complex relationships or perform an organized geospatial analysis.
- This is a graduate seminar aimed at getting you to think and reflect. You are expected to learn basic skills/ideas and concepts so that you may draw new ideas, opinions, concepts, or observations from them. We'll spend more time considering how concepts fit together than we will assessing your recollection of individual concepts.
- The term project gives you the opportunity to synthesize material you have learned and demonstrate an understanding of the material by applying it to a case study/question. The project can be tailored to individual interests from term to term--this requires that you consider what you would like to investigate in the first half of the course so that you have ample time to put together a proposal to share with me and your fellow students in the latter half of the course.
- This course allows ample opportunities to practice presenting your observations, findings, and thoughts via written and spoken communications. The single most frequent request I receive from employers is to create opportunities for students to practice professional communication. In a technical field such as ours, geospatial and analytical skills are only valuable if we can effectively convey our data, information, and insights to colleagues and clients. No need to fear this frequent communication within the course--students regularly comment that these opportunities to interact with each other create a true sense of community within the cohort.
I think you'll find this course challenging at times, but really fun. I hope you enjoy!