Two-day Certificate Courses
in ArcGIS

What: Introduction to ArcGIS 8x & 9x Certificate Courses

**There are no prerequisites. You do not need to be a UCCS student to take the course.

Dates: Courses are offerered monthly, generally on weekends; and on weekdays during summer, winter break, and/or spring break. See schedule

Place: Columbine Hall, room 329, UCCS campus, 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Colorado Springs - Map

Info:

The course consists of lecture and hands-on GIS exercises. Students will learn concepts and applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), while learning to use ArcGIS software from the GIS software leader, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc (ESRI). No prerequisites. Participants should know how to use Windows software.

Students Receive:

• Two books, a CD with GIS tutorial data, and an evaluation copy of ArcGIS
• Course certificate from ESRI upon completion
• An understanding of fundamental GIS concepts
• Ability to use ArcGIS software

Topics Include:

• Map layers, symbology
• Datums and map projections
• Raster & vector data formats
• Capturing and storing geographic data
• Displaying spatial (geographic) and attribute (database) data
• Editing spatial and attribute data
• Querying/analyzing data by attributes or spatial relationships
• Producing GIS maps, reports and graphs

For more information:
About course content or other contact Kelly @ 719.593.1977 or kelly@gistrainingsource.com.

Offered through Southern Colorado Geodata Laboratory and UCCS Letters, Arts and Sciences, Extended Studies Program

**Call to ask about customized offerings and/or training at your place of work.

Comments from participants:

• "I think Kelly did a great job and is obviously very knowledgeable and eager to assist students."
• "Course content was very good, appropriate to my level of understanding.
• "Ms Sparks was extremely knowledgable in every aspect of the program and provided an excellent training atmosphere."
• "The instructor knew what she was talking about and even took some data that I had collected and showed me how to input it into ArcMap, which was impressive."
• "I really appreciated the way the exercises were put together, it was easy to follow the step-by-step approach."
• "Great course, I learned a lot. Kelly was a wonderful, knowledgable, patient instructor."
• "This was a fun and interesting course. Although I don't work in the field of geography, I do have an intense interest in it only fueled more by this course and the possibilities it affords."

Course Instructor, Kelly C. Sparks is officially recognized by ESRI, Inc. as an Authorized Instructor of this course. She has been working with ESRI software for six years. She is also director of the Southern Colorado Geodata Laboratory.