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Last modified: 11.20.08

MUSA Overview
Program Requirements
Sample MUSA Capstones Projects
MUSA Faculty
Penn Facilities and Resources
Links
Contact Us


MUSA OVERVIEW

Anyone who has used GoogleEarth or MapQuest or a GPS-based navigation system or GIS software understands the power and potential of spatial analysis. A recent U.S. Department of Labor study identified geospatial analysis as one of twelve fastest growing knowledge-based professional fields. Spatial analysts are undertaking public health investigations, helping retailers and service providers find store and facility dcidcilocations, working with transit providers to provide real-time vehicle information, developing strategies for community policing, identifying natural and cultural features for conservation, helping city planners promote infill development and combat urban sprawl, and working with professionals in many disciplines to explore the likely impacts of global climate change.

The MUSA (Master of Urban Spatial Analytics) degree is a 12-month masters program coupling spatial analysis skills—most notably Geographic Information Systems (GIS)—with substantive knowledge in an urban content area of the student’s choosing. These include: criminology, design, economic and community development, education, local and state government, public health, real estate, urban land use planning, social welfare, transportation, and urban demography. While there are many university and college programs offering certificates in GIS, Penn is only U.S. university to integrate spatial analysis with multiple disciplines.

Students come into the MUSA program from diverse backgrounds and interests, some having recently completed a bachelor’s degree, others with a professional background. The MUSA program pulls together coursework and advisors from across the Penn campus, including faculty in City and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Engineering, the Wharton Business School, Public Health, Social Policy, Environmental Studies, and Criminology. Students who complete the MUSA program go to work in industry, government, consulting, and the non-profit sector. Some also go on for advanced degrees.
MUSA students typically take five graduate courses in GIS and spatial analysis, two graduate courses in a designated urban content area, an outside elective, and complete a capstone project. Full-time MUSA students can complete their degree in 12 months or less; part-time students can take up to two years.

MUSA is administered by the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design (PennDesign) in cooperation with the Penn Institute for Urban Research. Applications for the MUSA program are due at the PennDesign Admissions Office by February 1 for studies beginning in September. Students applying to the MUSA program must hold a bachelors degree and have a strong academic record (GPA of 3.0 or higher). Some knowledge of basic statistics and GIS is helpful but not essential. MUSA students lacking such knowledge can complete a three-week summer institute prior to the beginning of their fall semester. Limited financial aid is available.


PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

• Five courses in spatial analysis and GIS
• Two courses in a selected urban content area
• One elective course
• One capstone project course

Prerequisites

Students enrolling in the MUSA program are expected to have a basic familiarity with GIS (including ESRI’s ArcGIS or ArcView programs) and descriptive/inferential statistics. For those who lack such background, MUSA and PennDesign offer introductory GIS and statistics courses during the second half of the Summer semester.

Sample Curriculum

Fall semester

CPLN 667: Introduction to Spatial Analysis and Modeling
LARP 743: Cartographic Modeling Seminar
Urban content course
Urban content course

Spring semester

CPLN 668: Spatial Visualization and Simulation
LARP 745: Advanced GIS Applications
CPLN 646: Spatial Analysis for Public Health
ESE 502: Advanced Spatial Analysis
Summer
MUSA 700 Individual Capstone Project


SAMPLE MUSA CAPSTONE PROJECTS

Through the MUSA capstone project, students are able to apply the spatial methods learned in the GIS and statistical coursework to their content area in a research project. The projects typically involve a detailed research proposal, literature review, data collection, analysis and writing. Below are a few examples of recent student capstone projects.

2006

• Peggy Wu, Analysis of Community Investments over Time.

2007

• Jeanette Churchill, Geographic Accessibility to Healthcare in Kenya.
• Kristen Copeland, Black Immigrants in Philadelphia: Racial Segregation and Assimilation.
• Elizabeth Houser, A Decision for Farmland Preservation: Utilizing GIS and Logistic Regression to Analyze Landowner Motivation in Lancaster County, PA.
• Pravin Mathur, Agent-based Modeling of Urban Phenomena in GIS.
• Benjamin Mearns, Dyno-Ride: Automatic Route-based Ridesharing on the Web.
• Tricia Chal-Onn, Identifying Areas of HIV/AIDS Laboratories in Ethiopia.

2008

• Darryl Depencier, Measuring Multi-modal Travel Costs in the Vicinity of Limited-Access Transportation Networks
• Ankit Jain, Website Display of GIS Data in SVG Format
• Mike Schneider, Do the Demographic Attributes of Residents Predict Donations to Presidential Candidates? A GIS Approach
• John Wackis, Philadelphia Sheriff Sale Foreclosures and High Cost Lending, 2004-2006: A Geographic Analysis


MUSA FACULTY
Teaching Faculty

Professor Amy Hillier, Department of City and Regional Planning and School of Social Policy; Co-Director, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory
Teaches: CPLN 667 Introduction to Spatial Analysis and Modeling, CPLN 646 Spatial Analysis for Public Health
Research Interests: GIS and history, Public health

Professor John Landis, MUSA Academic Director; and Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning
Teaches: LARP 743 Cartographic Modeling Seminar
Research Interests: Urban growth modeling and sustainability

Professor Tony Smith, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
Teaches: ESE 502 Advanced Spatial Analysis
Research Interests: Theory and application of probabilistic models to spatial interaction behavior; Applications of GIS to spatial statistical analysis

Professor Dana Tomlin, Departments of Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning; Co-Director, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory
Teaches: LARP 743 Cartographic Modeling Seminar, LARP 745 Advanced GIS Applications
Research Interests: development and application of cartographic pattern analysis and spatial aldcidcilocation techniques

Affiliated Faculty

Prof. Eugenie Birch, Department of City and Regional Planning
Professor Dennis Culhane, School of Social Policy
Professor Janice Madden, Department of Sociology
Professor Susan Wachter, Wharton Business School
Professor Douglas Wiebe, Biostatistics and Epidemiology


PENN FACILITIES AND RESOURCES

University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Enrollment as a MUSA student affords access to all 17 University of Pennsylvania libraries, including the Wharton Lippincott Library, the Biddle Law Library, the Van Pelt Library, the Fisher Fine Arts Library, and Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library; as well as on-line access to Penn’s Franklin Library Catalog, EBSCO full-text journals, LexisNexis, the ISI Citation Indexes, JSTOR, and WorldCat.

PennDesign Facilities including The Architectural Archives, the Architectural Conservation Laboratory, the Arthur Ross Gallery, Career Services, the Morris Arboretum, high-end computer printing and plotting facilities, and the PennDesign Computing Resources Group.

The Penn Institute for Urban Research

The Penn Institute for Urban Research is dedicated to fostering increased understanding of cities and developing new knowledge bases that will be vital in charting the course of local national and international urbanization. By providing an umbrella structure for the urban focused scholarship, research and civic engagement within Penn’s twelve schools, the Penn IUR provides the synergy needed to address urban challenges in the 21st century. As a campus-wide institute, Penn IUR sponsors a number of initiatives, stimulates research, provides opportunities for collaborative instruction and engages with the world of practitioners and policymakers.

Cartographic Modeling Laboratory

The Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML) specializes in spatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. This website offers related resources, and also showcases the projects the CML has produced.
Our projects feature:
• Mapping and other visual displays of data
• Web-based information systems
• Innovative analysis using administrative data
Using these tools, the CML conducts academic research and urban and social policy analysis with a special focus on Philadelphia.


Wharton GIS Lab

The Wharton GIS Lab advances research using GIS technology through its development and dissemination of geospatial knowledge, as well as through partnerships with the private sector, linking academic researchers with industry leaders and technology end-users to further the development of innovative uses for this leading edge technology.


LINKS

Autodesk Corporation
Avencia Incorporated
Berkeley/Penn Urban and Environmental Modeler’s Datakit
Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Environmental Systems Research Incorporated (ESRI)
The Geography Network
GeoCommunity GIS Data depot
GeoData.gov
GIS at Penn State
GIS Café
GIS Lounge
GlobeXplorer
GoogleEarth
Intergraph Corporation
MapInfo Corporation
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
US Census Bureau GIS Gateway
US Census Bureau TIGER Page
US Geological Survey (USGS)
USGS EROS Data Center
USGS National Spatial Data Clearinghouse


CONTACT INFO

Prof. John Landis, MUSA Academic Director
127 Meyerson Hall
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6311
Telephone 215-898-8329
Fax 215-898-5731
Email MUSA@design.upenn.edu

ADMISSIONS

PennDesign Admissions Office
110 Meyerson Hall
210 S. 34th Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6311
Telephone 215-898-6520
Fax 215-573-3927
Email: admissions@design.upenn.edu [/align]






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