WEST VALLEY COLLEGE
Course Outline
Department:
WV Park Management
Date: 09/24/2008
Course Number and Title: PKMGT 016E - Database Design and Management
Length of course in weeks:
Units:
Total Class Hours/Week:
Lecture Hours/Week:
Lab Hours/Week:
By Arrangement/Week:
18
3
3
3
0
0
Catalog Description:
This course addresses the principles of database management and design including conversion
fundamentals, modeling techniques and strategic planning. The needs, alternatives and pitfalls of
database development and conversion are discussed. This course includes the examination of
various types of data applicable to GIS and examines relevant issues including hardware and
software requirements. Students learn the appropriate methodology for developing a conversion
plan, and data quality assurance. This course includes hands-on practical exercises in database
management skills.
Schedule Description:
This course addresses the principles of database management and design including conversion
fundamentals, modeling techniques and strategic planning. The needs, alternatives and pitfalls of
database development and conversion are discussed. This course includes the examination of
various types of data applicable to GIS and examines relevant issues including hardware and
software requirements. Students learn the appropriate methodology for developing a conversion
plan, and data quality assurance. This course includes hands-on practical exercises in database
management skills.
Prerequisite(s):
Prerequisite PKMGT 016A: INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHIC
Course Outcomes/Objectives:
List the major objectives in terms of the observable knowledge and/or skills to be attained as a result
of completing this course.
Limit these to the maximum number of critical objectives that can be effectively monitored and
assessed. Formulate at least some of them in terms of student accomplishments concrete and specific
enough that it can be determined to what extent they have, in fact, been achieved.
Student learning Outcomes
1. Outcome:Design a data base system that will adequately manage the data you have.
Assessment:Project
Upon completion of this course the student should be able to:
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Describe components of a database system
Describe various types of input data
Design a database for both vector data and raster data
Describe the different types of database systems used in GIS Analysis
Demonstrate an understanding of the SQL language
Design a data base system that will adequately manage the data you have.
Assessment:
Students in this course will be graded, at minimum, in at least one of the following four categories.
Please check where appropriate; however, a degree-applicable course must have a minimum of one
response in category 1, 2, or 3. If category 1 is not checked, the department must explain why
substantial writing assignments are an inappropriate basis for at least part of the grade.
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1. Writing Assignments
o written assignments
2. Problem Solving Demonstrations
o exams
o quizzes
o other (specify)
 Lab exercises
3. Skill Demonstrations
o class performance(s)
4. Examinations
o multiple choice, true/false
o matching items
o completion
Repeatability: 1 time(s).
Course Content:
The outline should be complete enough to assist an instructor teaching the course for the first time.
A listing of major topics covered and the amount of time devoted to each is required.
Lecture Content:
1. Introduction to Database Management
2. An architecture for a databse system
3. Introduction to relational databases
4. Relational data objects: Domains and relations
5. Relational data integrity
6. The SQL language
7. Remote sensing
20.00 %
20.00 %
15.00 %
10.00 %
10.00 %
10.00 %
15.00 %
Critical Thinking Tasks/Assignments:
Critical thinking can be characterized by the ability to do such things as analyze, explain, deduce,
solve problems, synthesize, and understand.
1. Create a relational database for sets of data. Analyze, vector and raster data for use in this
database. Manipulate this data using SQL language and adapt it for use in GIS analysis.
College Level Required Reading, Writing, and other Outside-of-Class Assignments:
Over an 18 week presentation of the course, three hours per week are required for each unit of
credit. Two hours of independent work done out of class are required for each hour of lecture.
Outside of the regular class time the students in this class will be doing the following outside of
class:
1. Problem solving activity or exercise: 1.00 additional hour(s)
2. Practice Skills: 1.00 additional hour(s)
3. Study: 1.00 additional hour(s)
Textbooks:
A. The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design . ESRI Press, 2006.