The original name of Geographicinformationscience is GeographicInformationSystem or Geo-Informationsystem or GIS (20 12). In the Catalogue of Undergraduate Majors in Colleges and Universities (20 12) recently issued by the Ministry of Education, among the geographic science majors, the geographic information system major was changed to the geographic information science major.
Main courses of geographic information science: geography, cartography, computer science and technology, physical geography, economic geography, remote sensing principle and technology, database structure, principle of geographic information system, design and application of geographic information system, etc. Engineering mathematics, high-level language programming, database management system, photogrammetry, remote sensing technology and application, geographic information system principle, GPS theory and application, GIS design and development, network GIS, computer graphics.