# Surveying (SURV) courses

Mt. San Antonio College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 3 courses

Source: https://catalog.mtsac.edu/programs/coursesaz/surv/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Winter 2027.

### SURV 1A — Surveying

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- **Prerequisite:** MATH 150 or MATH 160 or MATH 180.
- **C-ID:** ENGR 180
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/mt-san-antonio-college/schedule/fall-2026/surv.md)
- Degree Applicable

Surveying and use and care of surveying instruments such as steel tape, engineer's level, theodolite, and total station. Includes horizontal and vertical measurements, layout, traverse, area computations, analysis, and adjustments of systematic and random errors, stadia surveying, and mapping.

### SURV 1B — Surveying

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- **Prerequisite:** SURV 1A
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/mt-san-antonio-college/schedule/fall-2026/surv.md)
- Degree Applicable

Land surveying including coordinate geometry, missing data, construction surveying, volumes, property surveying, control surveying, California Coordinate System, and horizontal and vertical curves. Introduces photogrammetric methods, 3-D laser scanning, Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS), mapping project, method of least squares, and land survey descriptions. Field trips are required.

### SURV 1C — Computer-Aided Drafting for Surveyors and Civil Engineers

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture: 36, Lab: 54
- **Prerequisite:** SURV 1A
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/mt-san-antonio-college/schedule/fall-2026/surv.md)
- Degree Applicable

Computer-aided mapping, topographic and boundary maps, symbols; cross-section, profile, and route details; digital terrain model; area and volume computations from computer-generated maps. Surface modeling.