GDS 295-01 - Special Topic: 9 Billion People: Inquiry into Impacts and Opportunities

4 credits (Spring)

Cross-listed as: ENV 295-01. This course combines discussion and data analysis activities on a set of global challenges that impact developing countries. The course will include modules on climate change, population growth, food security, and human migration. Data analysis exercises will use Geographic Information Systems (GIS), text-mining, visualization, and network analysis tools as means to investigate how rapid change in these four areas affect development prospects around the world by creating turbulence and instability. The course will be comprised of discussions, in-class exercises, and an independent project that utilizes one or more of the tools covered in the class.

Prerequisite: GDS 111.
Instructor: Brottem