1.4 Readings

There are two books required for this course with an optional tjird book. Each book has been selected to correspond with one or more of the course objectives. The books are:

  1. Brewer, Cynthia. 2015. Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS users. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
    • This book is required and can be purchased in the bookstore or online; I recommend buying it you forsee making GIS a big part of your life moving forward, otherwise I strongly recommend renting it.
  2. Gorr, Wilpen and Kristen Kurland. 2017. GIS Tutorial 1 for ArcGIS Pro. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
    • This book is required and can be purchased in the bookstore or online; I strongly recommend renting it.
  3. Wickham, Hadley and Garrett Grolemund. 2017. R for Data Science. O’Reily Media: Sebastopol, CA.
    • This book is optional and can be purchased in the bookstore, online, or accessed for free as a webbook. Because it is optional, I recommend using the free version.

I do not require students to buy physical copies of texts. You are free to select a means for accessing these texts that meets your budget and learning style. If eBook editions (e.g. Kindle, iBooks, pdf, etc.) of texts are available, they are acceptable for this course. All texts should be obtained in the edition noted above.

All readings are listed on the Reading List and should be completed before the course meeting on the week in which they are assigned. Full text versions of most readings not found in the books assigned for the course will be linked to in the Syllabus. For one or two readings, .pdf copies will be made available via GitHub.