This certificate may only be awarded in conjunction with a UMKC undergraduate degree.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students graduating from this program will:

• Identify geospatial issues and technical needs in problem-solving in relation to relevant academic disciplines, industrial production, or public services.
• Design geospatial technical approaches for problem-solving.
• analyze geospatial data and produce maps using relevant GIS software.
• Present geospatial study findings with oral presentation and written reports.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related geospatial techniques are fast-growing and increasingly applied to almost all sectors of our society. Examples include environmental mapping, urban planning, and public resource management. This Missouri State-approved, transcripted undergraduate certificate program offers GIS-related multidisciplinary courses through several academic programs such as Geosciences, Urban Planning and Design, Sociology, Economics, and Criminal Justice and Criminology. The curriculum is designed to prepare students for a variety of careers in the rapidly growing job market.

This undergraduate certificate program is open to any degree-seeking undergraduate students at UMKC with appropriate academic backgrounds.

For completion of the certificate program, the student is required to finish the coursework of 17-18 credit hours with a 3.0 GPA or higher.