How is VIUs Advanced Diploma in GIS Applications Unique?
The intensive 8-month face-to-face program is broken into two distinct halves. In the first 4 months, students acquire hands-on GIS skills training with a focus on GIS applications to a variety of geographic or spatial problems. In the second 4-month period, students apply the GIS skills they’ve learned as they undertake a special GIS applications project in the workplace. Projects are developed in consultation with instructors and sponsors in the private or public sector of the local or regional economy. Each student has a faculty advisor during this project work. The 16-month online version of the ADGISA program has been designed to accommodate students who are currently employed or who cannot relocate to Nanaimo. Students in this program option acquire the same range of skills as those in the face-to-face program. The application of those GIS skills are embedded in the delivery of individual courses, as opposed to being applied in a work-study practicum. Upon successful completion o
