GIS Capstone Project

Learn How to Design and Execute a Research Project and Present Your Findings Effectively Using GIS In this hands-on GIS capstone course, you will complete an individual guided research project and report, applying the knowledge and skills you learned in the four prerequisite GIS courses.

You will begin the course by proposing a project, then you will complete the project according to your proposed research design, and finally you will present your resulting analysis.

Throughout the course, you will also learn basic project management techniques.

Topics include: Creating a project outline, including objectives and process flow diagram Using ArcGIS Pro to interpret and draw conclusions from spatial data Presenting project results with visualizations of key conclusions Practical experience: Comprehensive GIS project, including proposal, outline, and presentation Course typically offered: Online in Fall and Spring Software: Students will use ArcGIS software developed by ESRI.

The software license is included in the course price.

Prerequisites: Completion of GIS I: Introduction to GIS , GIS II: Spatial Analysis , GIS III: Web GIS , and GIS IV: 3-D Display and Analysis of Spatial Data is required.

Next Steps: Upon completion of this course, consider taking additional courses in data science to continue learning.

Contact: For more information about this course, please contact unex-environmental@ucsd.edu This class will be offered during the Fall quarter on the following dates: October 5th - December 5th, 2026.

Registration will open at the beginning of August 2026.