The geometry of stereo models. Detailed study of the U.S. Public Land Survey System Instructions with special emphasis on New Mexico. Sectionalized land subdivision, corner restoration, and field surveys. Field trips required. Explores the definition of surveying through writings by both surveyors and historians.
Lectures describe how the craft is, and has been, performed throughout the ages.
Systems of law and legal research. Requires a legal research paper. Surveying principles and practice as they are applied to construction surveys. Horizontal, vertical and spiral curves, slope staking, area and volume computations. Overview of concepts and tools used in computer applications and manipulation of spatial data.