Syllabus:Topics of Historical Geographic information System

Topics of Historical Geographic information Systems

Syllabus(2013 Fall)

Course Description

This course demonstrates how Geographic Information System (GIS) can be used in historical research. Historical GIS is a highly inter-disciplinary subject combining historical scholarship with expertise in using GIS. Students will learn how to apply GIS with geographical aspects of historical questions and datasets.

Topics in this course include:

1. GIS and its role in historical research
2. GIS: a framework for representing the Earth’s surface
3.  Building historical GIS databases
4. Basic approaches to handling data in a historical GIS
5. Using GIS to visualize historical data
6. Time in historical GIS databases
7. Historical geographic information on the internet and in digital libraries
8.  GIS and quantitative spatial analysis
9. Form techniques to knowledge: historical GIS in practice

TEXTBOOK

1. Knowles, Anne Kelly.(2002) Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History, ESRI press.
2.  Gregory, Ian N. & Ell, Paul S.(2007) Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies, and Scholarship(Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography), Cambridge university press.
3. Knowles, Anne Kelly & Hillier, Amy.(2008) Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship, ESRI Press.
4. David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris.(2010) The Spatial Humanities-GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship, Indiana University Press.

Reference Videos:

1.GIS:Mapping your world. This 10 minute video describes how geographic information systems (GIS) are transforming our world. Particular emphasis is on opportunities in communities served by Shasta College's GIS Program.

     2.Anne Kelly Knowles Uses GIS Tools to Re-Write History