Title: Student Project Proposal
Course: MASTER-GIST-1140-Patton > Section: Module 3 - Student Final Project Proposal

By this point in the GIS Certificate Program you have been exposed to many different GIS scenarios and examples.　 During the last 4 weeks of this quarter you will be working on a final project.　

All students are required to select a class project demonstrating your skills in GIS. The project is intended to provide a deeper understanding of GIS through an investigation of a particular geographic question. You will need to acquire the spatial data, perform some type of spatial analysis (using queries, classifications, and joins), and make a suite of maps.

Don't worry if your plans change some in the course of completing the project. This is just a proposal right now.　 The important thing is to develop a plan, and start pursuing it.　

Proposal Deadlines:  Please refer to the course calendar for dates.

Your project proposal should (in no more than 2-4 pages) outline what you are doing, why and how. Your proposal should have a title for your project and needs to include the following sections:

Contents:

1. Question/Problem
2. Idea/Hypothesis
3. Novelty/Scientific Originality
4. Methods
  1. Data Acquisition, Organization & Preparation
  2. Spatial Analysis Methods
5. Purpose of Your Project
6. Plan of Attack

This assignment is worth 10 points.

Please use the template provided in the assignment to complete your project proposal.

Click here for template