>Syllabus
Office Hours: Mondays, 3:00 PM-4:30 PM (or by appointment)
Book: Earth: Portrait of a Planet by Stephen Marshak
Attendance: I will not take attendance; however, it has been shown that students who do not come to class regularly and on time do not perform well in this class.
Academic Honesty: The University Academic Honesty Policy applies to this class. It is the individual student's responsibility to know what conduct violates the Academic Honesty Policy (refer to the Student Affairs Handbook ). Violation of that policy is a serious affair and ignorance is not an excuse. All instances of academic dishonesty will be reported to your respective College Dean.
GRADES: A variety of assignments will be used to assess student performance.
Exam 1: 33%
Exam 2: 33 %
Final: 34%
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
1.) Evaluate buildings' safety with regard to placement in the context of geological hazards provided that they understand the bedrock, the surrounding topography, geographic setting and climate.
2.) Analyze the energy requirements of a technological society and determine the global consequences of exploiting those varieties of sources of energy, renewable and nonrenewable, available to that society.
3.) Deicide if civilizations in arid climates can exist using the same water demands as civilizations with abundant resources and summarize the limits to urban growth in desert regions.
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>Course Schedule
Week 1: Introductions. Chapter 1: Our Island in Space, Chapter 2: The Earth's Interior
Week 2: No Class on Monday (Labor Day), Chapter 3: Drifting Seas and Spreading Continents, Chapter 12: Geologic Time
Week 3: Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics I, Chapter 5: Earth Materials: Atoms, Elements, Minerals
Week 4: Chapter 6: Formation of Magma, Igneous Rocks
Week 5: Chapter 9: Volcanoes and Volcanic Hazards
EXAM 1: 9-26-03
Week 6: Chapter 7: Weather, Erosion, and Sedimentation, Sedimentary Rocks
Week 7: Chapter 11: Plate Tectonics II: Mountain Building and Structural Geology
Chapter 8: Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
FALL BREAK, October 9-12, no class.
Week 8: Chapter 10: Earthquakes, Chapter 16: Mass Movement
Week 9: Chapter 17: Fluvial Processes Floods and Flood Hazards
Week 10: Chapter 19: Groundwater, Water Resources: Cadillac Desert
Week 11: No class 11/3/03 or 11/5/03 , Geologic Time Take Home Exercises.11/7/03 - Chapter 20: Climate and climate change
Week 12: Chapter 21: Glaciers Chapter 22: Deserts
Week 13: Chapter 15: Mineral Resources Chapter 14: Energy Resources
Week 14: EXAM 2- 11/24/03.
Thanksgiving Break 11/26-11/30
Week 15: Interlude D, pp. 352-362. Fossils, Chapter 13 Proterozoic Earth
Week 16: Chapter 13: Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Earth.
COMREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM: Friday, December 19th, 2003 . 1:15-3:15 PM
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