Geovisualization and Cartography GEP 360/660, EES 79904 Professor: Dr. H. Porter-Morgan Email: [email protected]
Office Hour: Tuesdays 9:30-10:30pm, or email for appointment
Course Sessions: Tuesdays 6:00-9:30pm, September 1st through December 15th Synchronous class meetings via Zoom; Course materials available on Blackboard Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93002701936 Meeting ID: 930 0270 1936 iCalendar file for download and import to your calendar system Mobile phone access: +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Readings: All readings will be provided on Blackboard.
Course Description: This course focuses on the principles of cartographic design and presentation. Students will work towards an advanced literacy in visual communication by studying the fundamental elements of color theory, typography, visual hierarchy, and layout. Maps will be studied critically in terms of their production, interpretation, and relationship to space and place.
Course Objectives: • Understand and apply cartographic principles to original map designs for the purpose of visualization and presentation. • Choose and adjust color, typography, labels, and symbology based on cartographic standards. • Learn and apply a variety of techniques in post-processing. • Choose map elements, and adjust their balance, hierarchical order, and arrangement according to principles of design. • Apply cartographic and design standards to map layouts.
Grading: Quizzes (10@20pts each) 200pts or 20% Assignments ([email protected] each) 500pts or 50% Project (1@300pts) 300pts or 30% Total (100%) 1000 points
Institutional policies • All work in this class must be your own. Any cheating on tests or plagiarism on papers - the use of someone else’s words or ideas without acknowledging them as such - will result in a failing grade in the course. Please see your student handbook for a statement about academic integrity and plagiarism policy. [http://www.lehman.edu/office-campus- life/documents/Final-Student-Handbook-Lehman-College-9-19-18.pdf] • For help with GIS tutoring, please take advantage of the EEGS GISc lab tutoring. See the EEGS webpage for further information. • For a full description of institutional policies, please see the Lehman College website or your student handbook.
Software: See Blackboard for documents pertaining to all software
• ArcGIS is our primary GIS software; you will use ArcMap. Detailed instructions for getting the software are in separate documents via Blackboard • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Detailed instructions for getting the software are in a separate document via Blackboard
Class Dates Lecture Topic Assignments Reading Due 1 September L1- Design Thinking A1- Layout Template 1 and Grid Systems (Due Sept 8)
2 September Quiz 1- covering A2- Visual Hierarchies Brewer- Ch 1 8 Week 1 (Due Sept 15) Planning Maps; L2- Visual Hierarchies Mierelles- and Layout Essentials Hierarchical structures; Poulin- Balance 3 September Quiz 2- covering A3-Typographic Posters Brewer- Ch 5 15 Week 2 (Due Sept 22) Type Basics L3- Introduction to Typography T3-Using Google Fonts 4 September Quiz 3- covering A4- Design for Maps: Brewer- Ch 6 22 Week 3 Labels and Text (Due Labels as Symbols; L4- Typography for Oct 6) Mierelles- Maps Hierarchical T4- ArcGIS Type Structures Manipulation
5 October 6 Quiz 4- covering A5- Color: Making Brewer- Ch 7 Week 4 Choices (Due Oct 13) Color Basics; L5- Introduction to Lupton- Color in Color Graphic Design T5- Creating Color Palettes
6 October 13 Quiz 5- covering A6- Design for Maps: Brewer- Ch 8- Week 5 Color (Due Oct 20) Color on Maps; L6- Color for Maps Mierelles Spatial Structures
7 October 20 Quiz 6- covering A7- Customizing GIS 1 Monmonier-Data Week 6 (Due Oct 27) Maps; L7- Advanced Patterson-Outside customization with the Bubble GIS 1 T7- Creating Custom Symbology 8 October 27 Quiz 7- covering A8- Customizing GIS 2 Brewer- Ch 3 Week 7 (Due Nov 3) Explaining Maps L8- Advanced Customization with GIS 2 T8- Customizing Map Elements
9 November Quiz 8- covering A9-Working with Relief Brewer- Ch 2 3 Week 8 (Due Nov 10) Basemap Basics; L9- Relief Kennelly- Hill- Cartography Shading Techniques
10 November Quiz 9- covering A10- Post-Processing Bierut- Mr 10 Week 9 Techniques (Due Nov Vignelli’s Map; L10- Post-processing 17) Tufte- Visual and for Cartographic Statistical Design Thinking T10- Powerpoint as a Graphics Tool
11 November Quiz 10- covering A11- Creating 17 Week 10 Infographics (Due Nov L11- Infographics 24) T11- Infographics Tutorial
12 November L12- Portfolio Design Project work 24 I T12- WordPress Introduction
13 December L-13- Portfolio Design Project work 1 II
14 December Presentations I Final Projects due at the 8 beginning of class
15 December Presentations II Finals 15 Week