GEO 445 — PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON FOR GIS (CUR-280)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Geography
- College/School: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
- Curriculum section: Environmental Science / Chemistry / Biology / CSH
- Catalog: GEO 445
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: green (
Open Enrollment) - Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
- Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/geo
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
Knowledge of a scripting language is a valuable skill for GIS analysts. Students will learn the basics of Python (a programming language), including script writing and implementation. By completing this course, students should be able to manipulate GIS data, automate GIS work flows, and develop customized GIS tools by writing script in Python in ArcGIS. The class is largely conducted through hands-on activities in a GIS laboratory. Cross-listed with GEO 345 .
Hardware relevance
Discovery pass: harvest include: signals: \blab(?:oratory)?\b, hands[- ]on
Documented resource links
UNI-014
- Relationship: uses_facility
- Rationale: Catalog mentions 'arcgis' (equipment category: GIS and geospatial computing).
- Source URLs:
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/geo
- Resource page: UNI-014
Notes
Catalog course key: GEO 445.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000219←depaul/SRC-000667(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-GEO-445.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-GEO-445.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.