Urban Geographic Information Systems.
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Lab Section Syllabus

Matthew W. Wilson
mwarrenw@u.washington.edu
Smith Hall 422
206.616.9287
Office Hours: By appointment
http://staff.washington.edu/mwarrenw

Lecture: M-W-F 9:30-10:20am, Rait Hall 121
Section AA: T-Th 9:30-10:20am, Smith Hall 401
Section AB: T-Th 10:30-11:20am, Smith Hall 401

The main objective for this lab section is to assist you in developing fundamental practices in GIS. In addition to the lab guidelines provided in the main course website, I highlight the following for each section that I teach.

This lab section is a space for:
• reviewing the concepts from lecture,
• discussing the graded material,
• working out your research ideas,
• preparing your assignments,
• learning from each other, and
• participating in an interactive classroom setting.

Prepare for this course.
Review the course syllabus carefully, paying special attention to due dates and assignment instructions. There are seven major lab assignments in this course and each one builds off the previous, so lecture and section attendance is crucial. There is also a final project presentation, and a final project report. If you have questions about course expectations as overviewed by the course syllabus, please contact me as soon as possible. Attend lecture and section.

Attendance is not taken nor required, however, note that:
1. the majority of your participation grade depends on your preparation for, and engagement in, class discussions and group work; and
2. your success in completing the lab assignments and final research project largely depends on how well you understand the material that we will cover in lecture and in section.

Be in contact.
You are responsible for checking your UW email account; the class listserve is what I will use to send communications outside class. Email is the best way to contact me (place ‘GEOG461’ in the subject heading). Please allow at least 24 hours for a response by email during weekdays. I will not necessarily respond to emails over the weekends.

Be a resource for others.
I strongly encourage you to exchange contact information with classmates, in order to retrieve notes and assignments that you may have missed.

Get help.
This course is strongly based on a progression of lectures and lab assignments. If you are having difficulty with any course material, please contact me. There are also other resources which you should find useful:
• Sherman Laboratory Hours:
http://nalu.geog.washington.edu/help/labs/labhours.html.

Be honest.
This course, if successful, will expose you to a variety of concepts and practices. You are expected to draw upon these concepts, but you must be transparent and honest about your use of these ideas. Please get help if you’re uncertain about this expectation! Academic honesty involves properly citing other people’s ideas in your writing. If you fail to cite other people’s ideas and language in your work, you’ve committed plagiarism. Summarizing someone else’s work and not citing them is also plagiarism. The names of students found to have plagiarized any piece of writing in this class will be reported to the Dean of Student Affairs for review. Don’t plagiarize. Be honest.
http://depts.washington.edu/grading/conduct/honesty.html