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Cartography Minor

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Geography
413 McGilvrey Hall
Tel: 330-672-2045
E-mail: geography@kent.edu
Web: www.kent.edu/cas/geography

The Cartography minor provides expertise in modern mapmaking. It is especially designed to meet federal governmental standards for the employment of cartographers.

CARTOGRAPHY MINOR REQUIREMENTS (30 credits)
Course Title Credits
GEOG 29160 Mapping Our World 3
  39161 Introduction to Cartography 3
  39162 Introduction to Cartography Laboratory 1
  49165 GeoMapping 3
Choose from the following: 6-8
GEOG 49070 Geographic Information Science (3)  
  49162 Advanced Cartography (3) *
 
  49163 Advanced Cartography Laboratory (1) *
 
  49198 Research in Cartography (3)  
  49210 Earth Imagery (3) **
 
  49211 Earth Imagery Laboratory (1) **
 
Choose from the following: 6-8
GEOG 39002 Statistical Methods in Geography (3)  
MATH 10041 Elementary Probability and Statistics (3)  
  12002 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (5)  
Electives
Electives may be chosen from any of the above courses or from: GEOG 21062, 22061, 31064; GEOL 21062, 21080; ARCH 45630, 45631; VCD 17000. Other electives may be appropriate but must have prior approval of the program coordinator.
3-9
TOTAL 30

* Student must take GEOG 49162 and GEOG 49163 together.
** Student must take GEOG 49210 and GEOG 49211 together.

Minimum cumulative 2.00 GPA required for graduation.