Annual 2020-2021 Class Schedule
NOTE: This course schedule is subject to change based on instructional guidelines to comply with COVID restrictions. Courses may be added, cancelled, or moved quarters as deemed necessary.
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| Course # | Course Title | Fall | Winter | Spring |
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FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS |
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| 102-6 | Sustainability & Social Justice (First-Year Seminar) |
Horton |
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DISTRIBUTION EARTH COURSES - 100-LEVEL |
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105-0 |
Climate Catastrophes in Earth History | Hurtgen | ||
106-0 |
The Ocean, The Atmosphere and Our Climate | Blair | ||
| 108 | Geological Impacts on Civilization | Bina | ||
| 114-0 | Evolution and the Scientific Method | Sageman | ||
CORE EARTH COURSES - 200-LEVEL |
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| 201-0 | Earth Systems Revealed | Jacobson | ||
| 202-0 | Earth's Interior | Stein | ||
| 203-0 | Earth System History | Hurtgen | ||
| 204-0 | Communication for Geoscientists | Postponed to 2021-2022 | ||
ADVANCED EARTH COURSES - 300/400 LEVEL |
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| 300-0 | Earth and Planetary Materials | Jacobsen | ||
| 310-0 | Aqueous Geochemistry | Jacobson | ||
| 314-0 | Organic Geochemistry | Blair | ||
| 342-0 | Contemporary Energy and Climate Change | Axford | ||
| 343-0 | Earth System Modeling | Horton | ||
| 350-0 | Physics of the Earth | Bina | ||
| 352-0 | Global Tectonics | Stein | ||
| 353-0 | Mathematical Inverse Methods in Earth and Environmental Sciences | van der Lee | ||
| 360-0 | Instrumentation and Field Methods | Beddows | ||
| 361-0 | Scientific Programming in Python | van der Lee | ||
| 370-0 | Geobiology | Osburn | ||
| 390 | Special Topics: GIS Level 2 (Geographic Information Systems 2) | Xie | ||
| 390 | Special Topics: Hydrology | Beddows | ||
| 390-0-08 | R Data Science | Xie | ||
| 440-0-01 | Advanced Topics: Stable Ca and Sr Isotope Geochemistry | Jacobson | ||
| 450-0 | Advanced Topics | Jacobsen | ||
| 450-01 | Advanced Topics: Sequence Stratigraphy, Facies Analysis, and Sea Level Change | Sageman | ||
| 450-0-02 | Advanced Topics: Communicating Science Beyond Academia | Axford | ||
| 450-0-04 | Advanced Topics: H Isotopes | Osburn | ||
| 519-0 | Responsible Conduct of Research Training | Beddows | ||