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This collection of case studies describes how instructors have used GIS within the traditions of a classical undergraduate education to help students analyze, manage, and visualize information in order to create a realistic learning environment in which students practice inquiry in their fields.
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This book promotes the use of maps and geographic information systems (GIS) across the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum. Sinton (former chief program officer for Latitude, a collaborative GIS initiative at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) and Lund (faculty technology liaison for the social sciences, Wheaton College) first presents chapters discussing general pedagogical issues connected to mapping and GIS, including critical and creative visual thinking, narratives of time and space, mapping and quantitative reasoning, and campus-community collaborations. They then present case studies illustrating the use of maps and GIS in sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, urban studies, classical archaeology, biology, environmental studies, chemistry and environmental science, geology, foreign languages, historical geography, religious studies, and musicology. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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