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GDS Courses and Requirements (PDF)

Summary of requirements:

  • Two (2) GDS core courses: EAS 531 (GIS) and EAS 541 (Remote Sensing)**
  • 6 credits of GDS elective course work
  • EAS 509 Ecology: Concepts and Applications and EAS 510 The Science and Practice of Social Change or course(s) from the Social Systems Distribution list. Students without a background in the social science are asked to complete 510. Those with a strong understanding of the social sciences are instead asked to complete one 3 credit course -or- a combination of courses equaling a total of at least 3 credits (e.g. two 1.5 credit courses) from the Social Systems Distribution list (in place of 510)
  • Two (2) courses totaling at least three (3) credits from the approved list of Integrated Analytic Methods & Skills (IAMS) courses 
  • One statistics course from the approved list 
  • Graduate-level electives (400-level or higher) from additional GDS courses or other EAS areas
  • EAS Capstone
  • Minimum 25 EAS credit hours
  • Minimum 42 total credit hours
  • *Complete listing of EAS courses (including those from other fields of study)

    **Students can petition to place out of one of these two courses if they have already had an advanced course in the topic.

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