Scott Rutherford decided to go to college when he was laid off from his manufacturing job and needed a new career direction. Scott will graduate in December 2009 with an associate degree in business administration. “After the first couple of classes I knew I could do this. The support staff at Continuing Education is really great.”
Courses 1–4 at the Williamsport Center
Mon/Wed/Fri, 9:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m., February 8–April 30
Instructors: Tina Enderlein and George Baumer
Fee: $5,546 (Includes all four courses)
Call 570-322-5771 to register.
Gain the technical skills you need to make you more marketable in your career. Whether your goal is to become a GIS professional, cartographer, or database administrator, or if you’re looking to gain GIS-related skills to advance your career potential, this certificate can help you get there.
GIS technology is an organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced (spatial) information.
The GIS program consists of four courses with a fifth optional course. Course 1 introduces the student GIS and remote sensing (RS) technology, concepts, tools, and basic geography. Course 2 consists of hands-on instruction to learn geospatial technology skills, ranging from introductory digital mapping to raster image analysis. Course 3 builds on the foundations set in Course 1 and 2 utilizing and developing geospatial databases. Course 4 incorporates the previous courses skill objectives to develop a GIS application project.
A GIS certificate will be awarded by Penn State Continuing Education upon satisfactory completion of the following courses.
Each course is 6 weeks.
Course 1 – Nature of Geographic Data and Spatial Information (33 hours)
Course 2 – Analysis for Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing (60 hours)
Course 3 – Analysis II for Geographic Information Systems (60 hours)
Course 4 – Applied Geospatial Application (60 hours)
Total Certificate Program – 213 hours, or 24 weeks.
A student must demonstrate to the instructor basic knowledge of the Microsoft Operating System (Windows), have basic knowledge of the Microsoft Suite of software applications (i.e., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), be able to navigate the Internet with a browser, and operate a mouse and computer keyboard.