The GIS Association in Japan established a working group to develop GIS core curricula in October 2002. This article reports an initial work conducted by the group investigating GIS curricula in the U.S. and GIS textbooks in English. The first part of this paper describes the GIS curriculum projects carried out by two organizations in the U.S.: the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). The second part examines items in these organizations' curricula and GIS textbooks in English. This report was prepared to provide data useful for the development of the GIS core curricula in Japan.
