Abstract
 Teaching Spatially Integrated Social Science Research Methods Track: Education Author(s): Richard LeGates Faculty in college-level social science and public policy courses rarely integrate systematic analysis of spatial dimensions of phenomena into their courses or teach students to use GIS software to get answers to social science and public policy questions. But space matters in the issues dealt with by political scientists, economists, urban planners, public administrators, and other social scientists and public policy professionals. Spatially integrated social science seeks to correct this shortcoming by integrating spatial concepts and GIS operations into social science courses. This presentation will describe an instructional module the author has developed and tested to teach upper division undergraduate social science students to "think spatially," visualize data, and use GIS operations to solve social science and public policy problems. The module will integrate urban and regional planning issues, GIS concepts, data graphic concepts, and ArcGIS 9 operations to teach social science students to visualize data and think spatially to solve problems. Richard LeGates San Francisco State University Urban Studies 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco , CA 94132 US Phone: (415) 338-2875 E-mail: dlegates@sfsu.edu |
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