Processing and Geoprocessing

1. Working with Geoprocessing Tools

2. Intersect Tool

How to use the intersect tool to take two features and find the parts of them that overlap and get new features back showing only the areas that overlap.
How to incorporate that tool into a workflow to get answers to your questions.

3. Writing Query Strings

Field, Operator, Value
The basics of SQL and queries in ArcGIS.

4. Writing Query Strings: Boolean Operators

How to work Boolean operators in the select by attributes tool and how that connects to the broader world of SQL queries that you will need to use in other parts in GIS.

5. Adding and Calculating Fields

How to use the field calculator to modify a field in place and generate new values from a field based upon existing values in a field.
Using python to expand that capability in the field calculator.

6. Interactive Selection

The basics of using the interactive selection tools, and managing those selections in a table of contents.
How to add, remove, zoom to your selections and use different types of selection tools to get at the features you are interested in.

7. Using and Configuring Selections in ArcGIS

How to chain together the three major types of selection, select by attributes, select by location and interactive selection into a cohesive workflow to help you achieve a specific objective in your GIS.