| Schedule of Lectures and Readings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Lecture Topic | Readings |
| 31 March |
01: Expectations, introductions; |
Syllabus;Dent 1 ; 4 (67-72) |
| 2 April |
02: Measurement/ Measurement frameworks What is the attribute? non-event |
Dent 4 (73-76) 5 [skim] |
| 4 | 03: Coordinates and projections (I) | Dent 2 (beginning) |
| 7 |
04: Dot maps EVENT 04: Map Titles |
Dent (161-172), map parts p. 241-2 |
| 9 |
05: Symbolizing (basic design principles) Pictionary non-event |
Dent 4 (76-79); [MacEachern] |
| 11 | 06: Area Symbols: introduction to choropleth maps | Dent 7 |
| 14 | 07: Classification and data prep for choropleth EVENT 07: Classification | Dent 5(106-107) 7(143-152) |
| 16 | 08: Color and Pattern | Dent 15 |
| 18 | 09: Cartograms | Dent 11; [Dougenik] |
| 21 | 10: Point symbols; proportional symbols | Dent 8,9 |
| 23 | 11: Typography and type placement | Dent 14 |
| 25 | 12: Map production and reproduction | Dent 16, 17 [lightly] |
| 28 |
EVENT 13: Projection hands-on and debate |
Dent 2 (39-46), 3(47-56); web readings (links in lecture notes) |
| 30 | 14: Map Design (revisited) | Dent 13 |
| 2 May | 15: Review and question period | Lectures to date, exercises 1-4 |
| 5 | 16: HOUR EXAM | |
| 7 | 17: Line symbols, flow maps | Dent 12 |
| 9 | 18: Sources of geometric data: Photogrammetry, remote sensing, surveying and applied trigonometry | |
| 12 | 19: Surfaces: statistical and terrain, interpolation, surface display | Dent 10 |
| 14 |
20: Cartographic data structures EVENT 20: data structures |
ESRI Shape file description (first 8-10 pages) |
| 16 | Map Design Booby Prize Awards | |
| 19 | 22: Compilation and digitizing | Dent 3 (58-65); 17 |
| 21 .. | 23: Visualization of surfaces | |
| 23 .. | 24: Generalization of line work; changing scale | [McMaster and Shea] |
| 26 | MEMORIAL DAY: no class | |
| 28 | 26: Accuracy of maps and fitness for use | Dent (61-62); SDTS DQ |
| 30 | 27: Lying with maps; cartographic 'license' and ethics | Dent (18-20); Monmonier |
| 2 June | 28: Geographic Information Systems and maps | |
| 4 | Review and question period | |
| 6 June | No lecture: all-day Symposium presentations | |
| 11 June | Final HOUR Exam | 9:20 (not 8:30) - 10:20 |