Course syllabus

Kurs-PM

ARK500 ARK500 Geografisk informationsbehandling lp3 VT26 (3 hp)

Kursen ges av institutionen för Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik

Complete course PM: ARK500_PM_VT26.pdf

 

Kontaktuppgifter

Examiner:
Jorge Gil
e-mail: jorge.gil@chalmers.se 
phone: +46 31-772 63 46

Teachers:
Ahmed Eldesoky
e-mail: ahmed.eldesoky@chalmers.se

Tanja Hellsten Romeborn
e-mail: tanjah@chalmers.se

Jonathan Cohen
e-mail: jonathan.cohen@chalmers.se

 

Student representatives:

Gustav Braun
e-mail: gustav.braun@hotmail.se

Agnes Nordin
e-mail: agnes.nordin@kvartsgatan13.se

Arvid Udd
e-mail: arvid.udd21@gmail.com

 

Kursens syfte

The course will provide basic knowledge within the field of geographical information management and processing, for its use in the analysis of the built environment for different types of real-world applications. The students will manage and process geographical data, carry out simple spatial analyses, and produce maps and charts, to describe, reflect on and present the characteristics, value and risks of urban areas in the city of Gothenburg.

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Kursens upplägg

The course encompasses a combination of lectures and exercises that cover different topics associated with the analysis of the physical and built environment, and its population. The lectures provide theoretical background on general GIS concepts and on specific urban development topics. The exercises reinforce the theoretical concepts by practicing data management, quantitative analysis, data visualization, map creation, and the understanding of the topics by interpreting the results applied to concrete cases.

The course is organised into four distinct Modules (A – D). The first module (A) is a more general introduction to the subject, and the work is done individually by the students. The other three modules (B – D) cover specific applications of geographic information analysis, and the work is carried out in groups of three. The teachers will support the students during the exercises throughout the course.

The results of the exercises and the knowledge acquired from the lectures are compiled in three posters, one for each applied module (B – D). The teachers give feedback on the posters in supervision meetings towards the end of each module, when the students present the work and can ask questions to the teachers.

Förändringar sedan förra kurstillfället

• Made assignment information clearer and consistent in the PM and Canvas.
• Made the meaning and expectations of each grade (U, 3, 4, 5) clear in the PM.
• Made the grading composition clear in the PM, including individual and group components.
• Made a rubric of the assessment criteria of the posters. added to the PM.
• Clarify in the PM that there is no exam and no presentation of the posters.
• Introduced group contract.
• Added a literature page (optional literature)

Lärandemål

1. beskriva olika datamodeller för digitala rumsliga data (raster och vektor), samt kunna ange hur rumsliga data typiskt organiseras, lagras och administreras i en datorbaserad miljö.
2. identifiera olika typer av geografisk information och kunna kännetecknande beskriva den som är relevant inom samhällsplaneringen och den byggda miljön, vilket innefattar både kommunal och social infrastruktur.
3. beskriva olika typer av ämnesspecifika modeller avseende rumsliga fenomen kopplat till byggd miljö.
4. redogöra för ett urval av grundläggande geografiska analysmetoder.
5. redogöra för ett urval av grundläggande kartografiska metoder och förklara innebörden av olika kartprojektioner, geodetiska referenssystem och koordinatsystem.
6. självständigt och i grupp genomföra grundläggande analyser av fastighetsrelevanta geografiska data i raster- och vektorformat med hjälp av standardprogramvara för GIS.
7. kunna presentera arbetsgång och resultat från insamling och analys av geografiska data.
8. utföra och presentera enklare statistiska utvärderingar av rumsliga data i både muntlig och skriftlig form innefattande bilder, diagram, beskrivande text och kartor.

Examination

The course is graded on a scale of U, 3, 4, 5. The grade is obtained from the compulsory submission of the 3 assignments (i.e. the posters of modules B – D), the compulsory attendance of the lectures, and participation in the supervision meetings. There is no individual exam, and there is no final presentation of the posters.

Meaning of each grade level:

• U – Unsatisfactory: the work is incomplete and incorrect, does not meet the minimum
• requirements
• 3 – Satisfactory: the work meets the minimum requirements, with only minor flaws. This is the passing grade.
• 4 – Very good: the works meets the minimum requirements, with very good quality
• 5 – Excellent: the work surpasses the minimum requirements, shows originality, creativity and critical thinking

The minimum requirements of each assignment are indicated in the course PM and each assignment.

Students are strongly encouraged to be creative and seek to tell a compelling story about the topic and the city of Gothenburg with their posters. Simply using the direct outputs of the examples in the exercises is ok but does not necessarily make the most interesting posters. The students can include more maps and scenarios, bring external material or cases, to make the story compelling.

This course has individual grading, which means that even if the students work mostly in groups, there is an individual component based on the attendance of the lectures, participation in supervision meetings, and contribution to the group work. A group contract must be signed by all students, defining the group’s working principles, how everyone contributes equally to the work, and the group expectation in terms of final grade.

Final grade 100% = Lectures 10% + Supervision 10% + Posters 80%

Attendance to the seven lectures is compulsory, requiring an 80% attendance rate to obtain the corresponding credits for 10% of the final grade. Active participation in the supervision meetings is expected, i.e. asking questions, explaining the work, and own contribution, which also corresponds to 10% of the final grade. The posters are the main form of assessment of the students, corresponding to 80% of the final grade.

The grading of each poster (100%) is broken up in the following way:

• Maps and plots 50% = Completeness 10% + Content quality 20% + Visual effect 20%
• Poster 50% = Content quality (text) 30% + Layout 10% + Visual effect 10%

The names on each poster should only be of the students in the group that participate in the work of that module. If a student cannot contribute to a poster she/he must contact the group and the examiner, and the examiner will give a complementary exercise.

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