“My concern with transferring to a LAC is that course availability is extremely limited” (6)
A good LAC geosciences department will offer in excess of two dozen courses, over one dozen more than a student will ever take.
“meaning there will likely be difficultty with scheduling” (6)
A strength of LACs is their ease of scheduling.
“Many LACs also do not teach some of the courses which are all but required for employment in the environmental science world, or teach them at an extremely cursory level (GIS is easy to learn, but knowing which statistics to input into GIS and knowing whether the output makes sense is less intuitive).” (6)
An upper-level course description from a LAC catalog:
GIS for Geoscientists. Introduction to basic concepts in computer-based GIS, emphasizing hands-on practice in portraying and analysing spatially referenced data sets to produce a variety of types of digital products and to solve geologic problems. Practice using data from multiple sources, including data downloaded from online sources, field-collected data and published map data. Mastery of basic skills using ERSI ArcGIS software.