Abstract
GIS-Supported Demonstration Modules in an Undergraduate Urban Geography Course Track: Teaching with GIS Author(s): David Padgett Demonstration modules designed to improve the delivery of geographical and spatial concepts to students enrolled in an undergraduate course, Urban Geography, are developed at the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE) 2004 summer workshops. Under the current course format, enrollees are required to collect population, socioeconomic, environmental and other data for urban areas of their choice. The data are then used to formulate questions and subsequently developed into term projects. During selected class periods, each student's data are incorporated into the demonstration modules and presented by the instructor. Thus, all students are exposed to a visual array of GIS and spatially-based methods for analyzing the dynamics of urban environments. The modules prove effective in communicating geographical concepts to students, many of whom have little to no exposure to geography as there are no prerequisites for the course. David Padgett Tennessee State University Geographic Information Sciences Lab 3500 John Merritt Boulevard Box 9538 Nashville , TN 37209 US Phone: 615-963-5508 Fax: 615-963-5497 E-mail: dpadgett@tnstate.edu |
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