Schedule

Week 1: Introductions (1/20)

Part I: Colonial North America

Week 2: Maps and the Early Americas (1/27)

Week 3: Lab #1 - Designing Maps (2/3)

Week 4: Spatial Connections (2/10)

Part II. The U.S. Civil War

Week 5: Slavery (2/17)

Week 6: Lab #2 - GIS and Spatial Analysis (2/24)

Week 7: Battlefields and the Civil War (3/2)

Week 8: Emancipation and Reconstruction (3/9)

Review Paper Due 3/14 by 8pm

Spring Break (3/12-3/20)

Part III: Race, Space and Modern America

Week 9: Jim Crow Then (3/23)

Week 10: Lab #3 - Gathering Spatial Data (3/30)

Week 11: Jim Crow Now (4/6)

Week 12: #BlackLivesMatter (4/13)

Part IV: Wrapping Up

Week 13: Final Project Working Session (4/20)

Complete the following tutorials:

Week 14: Final Project Presentations (4/27)

  • Email a link to your website by the beginning of class

Final Project and group evaluations due by Tuesday, May 3rd, 11:59PM