Land Surveying, A.A.S.

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Program Code: E.CDS.AAS

Graduation requirement: 63 credit hours

The Land Surveying program prepares the student either for employment as a surveying technician or for transfer to a four-year degree program to become an Illinois professional land surveyor.

See Land Surveying Professional Licensing Requirements for education requirements for becoming a professional land surveyor. See a faculty advisor to discuss four-year degree options.

Surveying technicians and professional land surveyors work in the ﬁelds of engineering, construction, land development, aerial photography, geographic information systems, agriculture, natural resource management, and government. Course work focuses on knowledge and hands-on skills needed for entry level employment and for professional licensing.

All of the surveying courses oﬀered in this program have been accepted by the Illinois Land Surveyors Licensing Board as meeting the requirements of the 24 credit hours required by the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989 and the Illinois Administrative Code as amended.

Program Notes

SRV 234 and SRV 235 are available during odd-numbered years. SRV 253 and SRV 254 are available during even-numbered years.
Students may substitute a technical elective for SRV 233 with approval of a faculty advisor.
Students planning to transfer should take ENG 101 instead of ENG 111 . Select a second communications course with advice from a construction faculty advisor.
Students seeking a professional license should take MAT 124 and MAT 125 instead of MAT 131 and a Mathematics elective.
This program prepares students to meet the speciﬁc Land Survey course requirements for licensure in the state of Illinois. See Professional Licensing notes for additional requirements. For information about how this program may meet licensure requirements in other states, see State Licensure/Certification Information on the Parkland website.

Land Surveying Professional Licensing Requirements

Per the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989 (225 ILCS 330/12), to qualify for admission to the Illinois Surveyor-In-Training (NCEES: Fundamentals of Land Surveying) examination, the candidate must have “a baccalaureate degree in a related science if he or she does not have a baccalaureate degree in land surveying from an accredited college or university.”

Per Title 68, Section 1270.15 of the Illinois Administrative Code, a baccalaureate degree in a Related Science is a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university that includes core courses in at least the following subjects, or their equivalents, for the minimum semester hours shown. The following subjects all may be completed prior to, concurrent with, or subsequent to receiving the baccalaureate degree.

Mathematics (College Algebra and beyond) - 15 semester hours
Basic Sciences (Physics and/or Chemistry) - 8 semester hours
Additional Basic Sciences (including, but not limited to: Geology, Geography, Dendrology, Astronomy, Biology, Soil Mechanics, and engineering sciences) - 20 semester hours
Land Surveying courses (including, but not limited to: fundamentals of land surveying, boundary surveying, route surveying, topographic surveying, descriptions, legal aspects, subdivision design, data computations and adjustments, map projections, and geometric geodesy and photogrammetry) - 24 semester hours

Graduation Requirements

Program Courses (44 credit hours)

AVI 111 - Commercial Drone Ground School 3 credit hours
CAD 114 - Introduction to AutoCAD (Computer-Aided Drafting) 2 credit hours
CAD 132 - Introduction to MicroStation 2 credit hours
CAD 232 - Civil Survey CAD Applications 2 credit hours
CIT 130 - Construction Plan Fundamentals 3 credit hours
CIT 236 - Infrastructure Systems 3 credit hours
CTC 132 - Computer Basics 1 credit hour
CTC 193 - Windows 1 credit hour
GIS 115 - Remote Sensing Applications 3 credit hours
SRV 113 - Basic Surveying 3-4 credit hours
SRV 133 - Surveying Computations I 2 credit hours
SRV 134 - Surveying Computations II 2 credit hours
SRV 211 - Construction Surveying 3 credit hours
SRV 233 - Surveying Field Experience 1-2 credit hours
SRV 234 - Design Surveying 3 credit hours
SRV 235 - Control Surveying 3 credit hours
SRV 253 - Legal Aspects of Surveying 3 credit hours
SRV 254 - Boundary Surveying 3 credit hours

Program Electives (3 credit hours)

Choose one course from the following:

AVI 112 - Introduction to Drone Flight 3 credit hours
SRV 239 - Land Development Design 3 credit hours

General Education Courses (16 credit hours)

MAT 131 - Applied Mathematics 3-4 credit hours
OR MAT 124 - College Algebra 4 credit hours
Mathematics elective
OR MAT 125 - College Trigonometry 3 credit hours
General Education elective - 3 credit hours

Communications electives - 6 credit hours

Complete one course from each group:

Group one
ENG 101 - Composition I 3 credit hours
ENG 111 - Workplace Writing 3 credit hours
Group two
ENG 102 - Composition II 3 credit hours
COM 103 - Introduction to Public Speaking 3 credit hours
COM 120 - Interpersonal Communication 3 credit hours
COM 140 - Voice and Diction 3 credit hours
COM 200 - Leadership and Small Group Communication 3 credit hours
COM 205 - Business and Professional Communication 3 credit hours

Suggested Full-time Sequence

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Land Surveying, A.A.S.

Program Notes

Land Surveying Professional Licensing Requirements

Graduation Requirements

Program Courses (44 credit hours)

Program Electives (3 credit hours)

General Education Courses (16 credit hours)

Communications electives - 6 credit hours

Suggested Full-time Sequence

1st Semester (Fall)

2nd Semester (Spring)

3rd Semester (Summer)

4th Semester (Fall)

5th Semester (Spring)

6th Semester (Summer)