• Postgraduates can be trained in GIS course with three specializations: 
• Natural Resource Management 
• Cadastral Application 
• Urban Applications 
At ITC, GIS modules are integrated parts of the Urban Survey Courses, the Earth 
Resource Survey Course and the Rural and Land Ecology Survey Course. 
For interdisciplinary education ITC has integrated ecology with socio-economic disciplines 
these new courses: 
• Forestry for Rural Development 
This course deals with forestry explicitly from a rural development perspective. 
Consequently, this does not follow the traditional approach to teaching techni 
cal subjects and socio-economic aspects in different modules. Instead, steps in 
forestry practices are taught. These steps include aerial survey, field survey, 
data handling and intervention design. In each step both biophysical as well as 
socio-economic aspects are taught. 
• Environmental Management 
For each single environmental problem and for each environmental manage 
ment authority (e.g. national administration), the diagnosis and the prognosis 
as well as remedial action(s) are dealt with, both from the biophysical and the 
socio-economic point of view. The course curriculum framework is intended for 
those having to deal with the solutions without concentrating on academic 
subjects.