Offered at MCC - Longview

(Metropolitan Community College Application for Admission)

Fall 2009

SRVY 137 - Subdivision Planning and Layout (3 Cr.)
Prerequisite: SRVY 135, Elementary Surveying. Physical elements of designing land subdivisions including traffic circulation, sewer and drainage systems, soils and earthwork, grading considerations, erosion control, lot and block arrangement, topography and existing land use
factors, geometric analysis; laws and codes affecting land subdivisions; environmental considerations; site analysis procedures.

SRVY 236 - Boundary Control and Legal Principles (3 Cr.)
Prerequisite: SRVY 135, Elementary Surveying. A study of the legal principles of land boundaries, section corners, area; interpretations of land descriptions, identification of land parcels; legal principles of boundary locations, and the United States land survey system.

Spring 2010

SRVY 135 - Elementary Surveying (3 Cr.)
Prerequisite: Math 105, 130 or 150. Introduction to the care and use of optical surveying instruments; Transits, Total Stations and Auto Levels. Use of cloth tapes, steel tapes and electronic distance machines.  Reduction of slope measurements to horizontal and vertical components. Measurement, field data reduction and adjustment of a closed traverse. Horizontal and vertical curves, earthwork and coordinates. Extensive field work, field notes and electronic data collection. Introduction to systematic and random errors.

SRVY 235 - Advanced Surveying (3 Cr.)
Prerequisite: SRVY 135.  This course is a continuation of surveying skills introduced in SRVY 135 with an emphasis on advanced surveying techniques beyond plane surveying such as geodetic control networks, practical astronomy, state plane coordinates, photogrammetry, and the US Public Land Surveys System.

SRVY 237 - Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location (3 Cr.)
Prerequisite: SRVY 135.  A study of the land practice of retracement and creation of new parcels as it relates to; the lot survey, the sectional survey, and the water boundary survey. Discussion of further standard business practice.

SRVY 244 - Fundamentals of GPS Surveying (3 Cr.)
Prerequisite: SRVY 135, Elementary Surveying. The purpose of this course is to introduce the student and practitioner to the modern practices of satellite surveying with an emphasis on its origins in physical geodesy.