Geospatial Analysis Certificate

Program Code: N-GIS-C
Degree Designation: Certificate
Department: Nicholas School of the Environment
Website: nicholas.duke.edu/academics/certificate-programs/geospatial-analysis-certificate-program

Program Summary

Geospatial analyses are a rapidly growing approach to problem solving across a wide array of environmental and earth science disciplines. The Nicholas School's Geospatial Analysis Program develops and maintains:

• Undergraduate and graduate (professional MEM & PhD) geospatial technologies curricula

• Research support for geospatial technologies and analysis

• Professional non-degree, distance learning instruction & certificate programs

• The institutional geospatial technology liaison between the Nicholas School and University

The certificate is open only to degree-seeking students in the Master of Environmental Management and Master of Forestry programs. Students who wish to pursue this certificate program should add the program through their Stellic account.

Academic Requirements

The curriculum is intended to augment the educational tracks of a wide number of students from across the Nicholas School. The Geospatial Certificate requires 3.5 courses from the geospatial curriculum. Information about the courses eligible to fulfill the certificate requirements is available at nicholas.duke.edu/academics/certificate-programs/geospatial-analysis-certificate-program.

• Fundamentals: 1 course

• Topical Course: 1 course

• Elective: 1 course

• Field Skills Module: 1 course

• Master's Project/Dissertation/Independent Research