LEARNING OUTCOMES
After completing this course, the students:
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Have improved scientific skills in conceptualizing complex location-related problems in the society related to sustainability.
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Can identify how the sustainability problems can be studied with geospatial data and computational approaches.
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Have technical, hands-on competencies to identify, use, assess, process, and enrich geospatial data to study sustainability related topics.
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Have competencies to identify, use and assess spatial data science methodologies in their analysis, and can apply them in practice to a range of sustainability related topics with Python programming language.
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Can plan and manage team work over several weeks with their own sub goals, milestones and deliverables, and recognize the roles and responsibilities of members in a project team, linked with the team deliverables.
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Know the best practices of open and reproducible science and can use them in practice
Credits: 5
Schedule: 07.01.2025 - 20.02.2025
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Henrikki Tenkanen
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: Finnish, Swedish, English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
The course introduces geographical and computational analysis approaches to study sustainability related questions. During the course, the students are introduced to various modern spatial data science methods which are applied to data in different geospatial data formats.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Assignments and project work.
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
Lectures (20 h), self-study (20 h), assignments (50 h), final project work (45 h)
DETAILS
Study Material
valid for whole curriculum period:
Lecture notes, programming tutorials, and literature.
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
1 No Poverty
3 Good Health and Well-being
4 Quality Education
5 Gender Equality
7 Affordable and Clean Energy
8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
10 Reduced Inequality
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
13 Climate Action
14 Life Below Water
15 Life on Land
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching Language: English
Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Spring III
2025-2026 Spring IIIRegistration:
Registration for the courses via Sisu (sisu.aalto.fi).