活動日期 : 2023.08.15
中心副執行長范噶色「地圖學」、「空間決策」獲獎政大111學年度學士班英語專業績優課程
國立政治大學國合處為鼓勵教師開設學士班英語專業課程，提升政大英語專業課程品質，設立「學士班英語專業績優課程」獎勵。本中心副執行長范噶色副教授多次獲得此獎肯定，今年再度以「地圖學 Cartography」、「空間決策 Spatial Decision Making」兩門課程獲頒111學年度第一學期學士班英語專業績優課程。
地圖學 Cartography
Cartography is the Technique, Science and the Art of turning data into maps. These maps become a tool for visualizing and communicating complex spatial relationships.
Maps are ubiquitious and are used everyday by everyone without having to think about it. While the conventional paper-printed large-format map has often been complemented or even replaced by digital formats, the specific techniques of transforming data into information remain essentially the same. With the advent of the Digital Revolution the ancient science of cartography and map-making has been experiencing a huge overhaul and was required to reposition itself in a modern digital area. It did so successfully.
This course on Cartography deals with maps and the process of map making, starting from data selection and integration, over filtering of information, to designing a map that eventually helps to communicate spatial information. In this course, students discuss these aspects and create their own maps with state-of-the-art digital tools. Due to its nature Geographic Information System Technology (GIST) is closely linked to topics of Cartography and will therefore provide an invaluable tool in the process of map creation.
空間決策 Spatial Decision Making
The course on Spatial Decision Making deals with the process of arriving at decisions based on the combined assessment of temporal, spatial as well as non-spatial data. Such assessments can, for example, be dealing with the identifcation of locations for placing energy installations, or they can be dealing with assessing hazard zones, or they might be dealing with the effect of changes in land use in order to develop new policies. Due to the complexity of such tasks computer support is needed and is commonly provided in the form of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS). Such systems, however, have to be tailored to the respective needs.
The course highlights the process of defining and developing workflows using Geographic Information System software, also in combination with third-party modeling software. It discusses the foundation of decision-making processes and establishes the connection between problem formulation, data management, workfow defnition, assessments and the decision itself.
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