Our practice likely goes beyond the standard emphasis on spatial analysis in geographic information science, which is often carried into the concepts of GIS history or historical GIS." "Jack" Owens is quick to point out that "I refer to what my ISU colleagues and I do as geographically integrated history. In recent years the field of historical GIS has developed a set of common techniques to solve problems both geographic (spatial) and historical (temporal). All of the faculty members involved in the program have been trained to use ArcGIS.
ISU's GIS Training and Research Center, which is an Esri-licensed facility, will support the program. Its focus on historical analysis and methods makes this degree distinct from programs in historical geography. The program's emphasis on using digital technology to raise significant historical questions and analyze sources sets it apart from other applied history (also known as "public history") programs that rarely emphasize information technologies and from other GIS-related programs that are not generally linked with the humanities and social sciences. ISU's program is currently the only one of its kind in the United States, and its creators "can find no similar history graduate program anywhere in the world," according to the program's development coordinator, Dr. Kevin Marsh. Strong preparation in the organization and analysis of complex historical data will enable graduates to compete successfully for a wide variety of jobs with state, national, and international businesses and educational, government, and private agencies and to strengthen K-12 and higher-education teaching in an increasingly technological instructional environment. In fall 2007, the first class of four to six students will enter the program, which combines an emphasis on the use of emerging technologies, especially GIS and related information technologies, with strong traditional historical training in content, research, and historiography.Īll students will complete an internship that emphasizes skills in the appropriate use of historical sources critical thinking collaboration and written, oral, and visual communication. The History Department at Idaho State University (ISU) has received approval from the Idaho State Board of Education to launch its Master of Arts Program in Historical Resources Management. Idaho State University Creates Innovative Program in History and GISĭetail of city of Pocatello, Idaho, and vicinity, 1934, showing Central West Side, which has been nominated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.
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