GIS at University of Florida

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GIS coursework.

• GEO 3162CIntroduction to Quantitative Analysis for Geographersopens 3 courses (2 directly)
• GIS 3420CGIS Models for Public Healthopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate GIS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 16 GIS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 8 more GIS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in GIS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at GIS 4424C

  1. STA 2023Introduction to Statistics 1
  2. GEO 3162CIntroduction to Quantitative Analysis for Geographers
  3. GIS 3420CGIS Models for Public Health
  4. GIS 4424CApplications in GIS for Zoonoses and Disease Ecology

• 2 courses deep, ending at GIS 4021C

  1. GEO 2200Dynamic Planet Earth
  2. GIS 4021CAerial Photo Interpretation

• 2 courses deep, ending at GIS 4121

  1. GIS 3072CGeographic Information Systems
  2. GIS 4121Geospatial Analysis

• 2 courses deep, ending at GIS 4324

  1. GIS 3043Foundations of Geographic Information Systems
  2. GIS 4324GIS Analysis of Hazard Vulnerability

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GIS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GIS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

GIS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UF campus feed.