Courses

GIS Lab course offerings vary from semester to semester. Please check with your department to find out the schedule of available courses. The Department of Geography at Florida State University offers Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced courses in GIS, as well as a course about Cartography. The Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida State University offers GIS courses such as Urban and Regional Information Systems.

Feel free to take a look at a few syllabi of past classes below:

• Geo 4151: Introduction to Geographic Information Sysytems: Click here to view the course syllabus.
• Geo 5934: Intermediate Geographic Information Systems: Click here to view the course syllabus.
• Geo 5934: Introduction to Remote Sensing: Click here to view the course syllabus.
• URP 5272: Urban and Regional Information Systems: Click here to view the course syllabus.
• URP 5279.: Urban and Regional Information Systems: Click here to view the course syllabus.
• GEO 5165: Quantitative Geography: Click here to view the course syllabus.
• GEO 5934: Advanced Quantitative Geography: Click here to view the course syllabus.

Or, contact one of the many instructors who teach GIS courses:

Geography

• Dr. James Elsner
• Professor
• Bellamy room 310
• 850/644-8374
• 850/644-5913(FAX)
• jelsner@fsu.edu
• Office Hours: Thursday 1:45-3:00
• Click here to view his curriculum vitae.

• Dr. Xiaojun Yang
• Assistant Professor
• Bellamy 304
• 850/644-8379
• 850/644-5913(FAX)
• xyang@fsu.edu
• Office Hours: Thurs./Fri. 2:00-3:30

• Shawn Lewers
• Director of the Geographic Information Systems Laboratory
• Bellamy 310
• 850/644-8373
• 850/644-5913(FAX)
• slewers@fsu.edu
• Office Hours: email or by appointment

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

• Dr. Tim Chapin
• Associate Professor,
• Master's Program Director,
• Faculty Associate,
• Center for Demography and Population Health & DeVoe L. Moore Center
• Bellamy 353
• 850/644-8515
• 850/644-4841(FAX)
• tchapin@fsu.edu
• Office Hour: email or by appointment

• Dr. Robert Deyle
• Professor
• Bellamy 333
• 850/644-8512
• 850/644-4841w(FAX)
• rdeyle@garnet.fsu.edu
• Office Hours: email or by appointment

• Dr. Jeffrey R. Brown
• Assistant Professor
• Bellamy 345
• 850/644-8519
• 850/644-4841(FAX)
• jbrown2@fsu.edu
• Office Hour: email or by appointment

• Dr. Gregory Thompson
• Professor
• Bellamy 344
• 850/644-8514
• 850/644-4841(FAX)
• gthompsn@fsu.edu
• Office Hour: email or by appointment