GeoPhoto Certificate | University of North Texas

Program Overview

The GeoPhoto Certificate program combines art and science through courses in geography, GIS, and photography. Students learn to collect, interpret, and analyze visual data and develop diverse forms of data synthesis and presentation. The program is delivered on campus and requires 15 credit hours to complete. Faculty members are highly successful with cutting-edge research.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The GeoPhoto: Imaging Technology and Visualization Certificate program provides a comprehensive mix of conceptual and technical instruction in imaging technology and visualization. It integrates art and science through combining courses in geography, GIS and photography. Students will learn methods for collecting, exploring, interpreting, and analyzing visual data and diverse forms of data synthesis and presentation.

Outline:

The program is structured as a certification program delivered on campus and is estimated to take 2-3 semesters to complete. It requires 15 credit hours.

Course Examples:

• Intermediate Photography: Field Photography (3 hrs): Students use photography to examine and build an understanding of place.
Students use photography to interpret, analyze, and criticize specific locations. Students consider the efficacy of art making in projecting solutions, taking activist stances and creating a new understanding of their surroundings. Illustrates the essential methods of GIS and its applications in fields including geography, business, administration, planning and environmental science. Students gain application skills via a series of practical exercises illustrating problem-solving strategies using up-to-date GIS software packages. Exploratory data analysis (EDA) and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) to analyze complex, unstructured datasets.
• Digital Image Analysis (3 hrs): Approaches to digital image analysis and processing.
Includes topics on photo interpretation, information extraction from remotely sensed imagery for use in a variety of disciplines, including environmental and ecological science.
• Beginning Photography: Photo I (3 hrs): Beginning photographic materials, techniques, software and digital cameras.
Assignments, lectures, demonstrations and critiques expose students to the necessary tools for creative image making and expression using photography. Students will gain technical competencies with DSLR cameras, Adobe Lightroom, and Inkjet printing.

Teaching:

The program boasts highly successful faculty with cutting-edge research.

Other:

• The program is housed within the Department of Geography and the Environment in the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences.
• The program highlights engaging undergraduate and graduate programs, active student organizations related to the program, high investment in students by faculty, and students employed in a diverse array of internships and careers.