Aim of the module
This module aims at expanding and refining GIS concepts, applications, and analysis beyond the introductory GIS module. Students will be exposed to modelling applications using raster and vector data model, and techniques of terrain analysis
Learning outcomes
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
- Explain different dimensions in GIS;
- Explain the methods of spatial analysis;
- Derive and discover spatial patterns, trends, relations;
- Describe and explain the main spatial models and how they can be useful to explore and analyze spatial phenomena
- Apply methods for spatial analysis including overlay operations, distance and neighborhood functions, spatial interpolation;
- Use spatial analysis methods and tools in raster and vector models to analyze spatial phenomena in a specific context.
- Use Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst tools of GIS;
- Apply different types of surface analysis: slope calculation, Aspect calculation, Viewshed, Watershed;
- Apply different types of interpolation methods: Inverse Distance Weighted, Spline, Natural Neighbors and Kriging.
The module serves as an initiation to scientific research. Upon completion of this module, students should be able to understand the nature of scientific research, demonstrate a good knowledge of some techniques applied in data collection (primary and secondary data), data processing and analysis using appropriate (SPSS, Excel, ArcGIS), and their organization in a short well structured, illustrated and referenced scientific report on given research. specifically, upon completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Understand the nature, role and importance of scientific research,
- Know techniques of data acquisition applied in geography, their strength and applications,
- Know and understand the sampling techniques,
- Know and understand the procedure of designing and administering a research questionnaire in real-life,
- Understand and apply techniques of data processing and analysis in the field of geography using appropriate software, including statistical tests and calculate statistical errors for a later application in the field of urban planning and environmental management in particular.
Contentwise, this module will be offered into two parts: the first one is dedicated to " Principles of Scientific Research"
and the second one to "Statistics". As a prerequisite, students must have completed successfully:
- Mathematics for Geography, GEO1161
- Statistics for Geography, GEO1361
- Introduction to GIS and cartography, GEO1363
- Introduction to Human Geography, GEO 1163
- Rural Spaces, GEO1263
- Urban Spaces, GEO1264
- Introduction to Computer Skills, SST1161
The main teaching methodology will be face-to-face classes but after COVID-19 lockdown. Thus in the meantime, students are encouraged to access and read provided materials online.
For further details about the course including the assessment plan, you are encouraged to read the module Booklet
Module facilitators:
Module leader:
Prof Emmanuel Twarabamenye
Email: twarabamenye@yahoo.com
Tel: 07.88.85.67.84
Assistant lecturer:
Mr. Cyprien Mugemanango
Email: mucypro2@yahoo.fr
Tel: 07.86.31.57.00
The module aims at equipping students with a deep knowledge of the Geography of Rwanda. The module discusses physical and human features, and socio-economic and environmental problems of the country as well. Skills and concepts taught in the module are highly useful for other subjects.
This module focuses on the main concepts of regional Geography (regionalization, nodal and functional regions) and the special approach to regional Geography (i.e. the integrative method that combines the various Geographical sub-disciplines). The course zooms in on the changing position of the major regions in the world with special attention to Africa and Rwanda.
Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:
1. Know the principal factors that lead to the division of the world into the great economic regions
2. Present the great economic regions and their resources and environments in general, and Eastern Africa in particular
3. Know the unexplored aspects of the Geography of the Eastern Africa and Rwanda
The module aims to acquaint students’ basic principles of land administration. Students will be introduced to different forms of land tenure, land registration and land valuation models. after completing this module our students should be able to:
- Describe and explain the concepts related to land administration, including land policy, land adjudication, land registration, cadastre, land tenure, property rights, land valuation,
- Describe different forms of land registration (titles, deeds)
- Describe and explain the objectives and process of land valuation
- Recognize and classify different types of land tenure (i.e. urban and rural, formal and informal), in particular with regard to the context of Rwanda
- Describe the institutions dealing with land management and administration (in Rwanda) and the way these institutions operate
- Understand the social-economic properties of land and land transfers processes and procedure
- Understand and explain the link between the land and the legal framework, the financial matters and the land use planning,
- Record and map land properties
- Present oral and written report on land administration issues using appropriate software and other media;
- Be able to work for cadastre office, district land bureau, work with cadastre and LIS.