Geology

Courses

GL101: General Geology I Lab

Credits 4

Provides insight into the composition, structure, and origin of the earth as revealed by rocks, minerals, land forms, and the fossil record. Special attention is paid to the tectonic and biological history of the planet. GL101 Addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences Inquiry & Analysis and Technology Literacy; GL102 addresses Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. Offered fall, alternate years

GL101L: General Geology I Lecture

Credits 0
Provides insight into the composition, structure, and origin of the earth as revealed by rocks, minerals, land forms, and the fossil record. Special attention is paid to the tectonic and biological history of the planet. GL101 Addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences Inquiry & Analysis and Technology Literacy; GL102 addresses Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. Offered fall, alternate years

GL102: General Geology II Lab

Credits 4

Provides insight into the composition, structure, and origin of the earth as revealed by rocks, minerals, land forms, and the fossil record. Special attention is paid to the tectonic and biological history of the planet. GL101 addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences Inquiry & Analysis and Technology Literacy; GL102 addresses Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. Offered spring, alternate years

GL102L: General Geology II Lecture

Credits 0
Provides insight into the composition, structure, and origin of the earth as revealed by rocks, minerals, land forms, and the fossil record. Special attention is paid to the tectonic and biological history of the planet. GL101 Addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences Inquiry & Analysis and Technology Literacy; GL102 addresses Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. Offered spring, alternate years

GL115: Global Change: The Oceans Lab

Credits 4
History has shown that science provides a powerful methodology by which we as human beings can come to understand the natural world. Using this theme of global change – specifically, looking at the planet-wide changes now occurring in the oceans and looking at the link between these changes and changes in the atmosphere – students will become more familiar with some of the major scientific concepts relating to this set of issues, how these concepts have developed, and how scientists continue to revise these ideas. Students will be able to understand and interpret scientific information and be able to make reasoned decisions, as voting citizens, based on that information. The Oceans course will consider topics related to ocean origins, structure, sediments, water chemistry, atmospheric and oceanic circulation, waves, tides, coasts, and marine life. This course combines lab, lecture and discussion. Addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences, Inquiry & Analysis and Technology Literacy. Offered fall

GL115L: Global Change: The Oceans Lecture

Credits 0
History has shown that science provides a powerful methodology by which we as human beings can come to understand the natural world. Using this theme of global change – specifically, looking at the planet-wide changes now occurring in the oceans and looking at the link between these changes and changes in the atmosphere – students will become more familiar with some of the major scientific concepts relating to this set of issues, how these concepts have developed, and how scientists continue to revise these ideas. Students will be able to understand and interpret scientific information and be able to make reasoned decisions, as voting citizens, based on that information. The Oceans course will consider topics related to ocean origins, structure, sediments, water chemistry, atmospheric and oceanic circulation, waves, tides, coasts, and marine life. This course combines lab, lecture and discussion. Addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences, Inquiry & Analysis and Technology Literacy. Offered fall

GL120: Global Change: Weather Climate Lab

Credits 4
Science is a process that strongly informs human choices that have global impacts. In this course, students will be guided by their own curiosity, because without curiosity there can be no science. Students who successfully finish this course will be able to: 1) critically research and understand the inter-relationship between global climate change and the atmosphere and human actions; 2) critically evaluate the validity of claims, positions, etc., made by businesses, government agencies, or other various groups using a systematic method (that is, the scientific method); 3) articulate and communicate, both individually and in a group setting, their position on important human global issues that have scientific concepts at their roots; and 4) recognize that science strongly informs these human social/political issues that have scientific concepts at their roots. Specific topics considered in this course include atmospheric chemistry, pressure and temperature systems, humidity and precipitation, cloud development, atmospheric circulation, weather forecasting, extreme weather events, climate change, and air pollution. This course combines lecture, laboratory, and discussion. Addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences, Critical Thinking, and Problem Solving. Offered spring

GL120L: Global Change: Weather Climate Lect

Credits 0
Science is a process that strongly informs human choices that have global impacts. In this course, students will be guided by their own curiosity, because without curiosity there can be no science. Students who successfully finish this course will be able to: 1) critically research and understand the inter-relationship between global climate change and the atmosphere and human actions; 2) critically evaluate the validity of claims, positions, etc., made by businesses, government agencies, or other various groups using a systematic method (that is, the scientific method); 3) articulate and communicate, both individually and in a group setting, their position on important human global issues that have scientific concepts at their roots; and 4) recognize that science strongly informs these human social/political issues that have scientific concepts at their roots. Specific topics considered in this course include atmospheric chemistry, pressure and temperature systems, humidity and precipitation, cloud development, atmospheric circulation, weather forecasting, extreme weather events, climate change, and air pollution. This course combines lecture, laboratory, and discussion. Addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Natural Sciences, Critical Thinking, and Problem Solving. Offered spring

GL205: Environmental Geology Lab

Credits 4

Provides a broad overview of the environmental impacts associated with resource extraction and use, with soil use, and with water use. Particular attention is paid to the roles of human population growth and growth in per capita consumption in these various environmental impacts. Prerequisite: GL101 or ES103.

GL205L: Environmental Geology Lecture

Credits 0

Provides a broad overview of the environmental impacts associated with resource extraction and use, with soil use, and with water use. Particular attention is paid to the roles of human population growth and growth in per capita consumption in these various environmental impacts. Prerequisite: GL101 or ES103.