Geospatial Intelligence Graduate Certificate

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Email: spatialsciences@dornsife.usc.edu

Director: John P. Wilson, PhD

The online Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence requires 16 units of graduate work and provides state-of-the-art training in some of the core geospatial technologies and the underlying scientific concepts and analytical methods that guide their design and use to solve a variety of human security problems and challenges.

Course Requirements

Sixteen units of graduate work are required.

Core Courses (12 Units)

SSCI 581 Concepts for Spatial Thinking Units: 4
SSCI 577 Human Security and Disaster Management Units: 4
SSCI 579 Geospatial Intelligence Tradecraft Units: 4

Electives (4 Units)

Students choose one of the following:

SSCI 576 Remote Sensing Applications and Emerging Technologies Units: 4
SSCI 585 Geospatial Technology Project Management Units: 4
SSCI 588 Remote Sensing for GIS Units: 4

Note:

The courses in this program are open to students living and/or working anywhere, including students at USC’s Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento and Washington, D.C. centers. The certificate program can be completed in as few as two and no more than four semesters depending on the numbers of courses taken in each of the fall, spring and summer semesters. The graduate certificate program can serve as a possible “stepping stone” toward the geographic information science and technology master’s degree program. Continuous enrollment, including summer, is required.