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"Laboratory" Syllabus |
Debate Schedule |
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| Instructor: | Dr. William Locke | Office: | Traphagen 223-4 |
| Phone: | 994-6918 | E-mail: | wlocke@montana.edu |
| Office hours: | Wed 9:30-noon, by appointment, and any time my doors are open! | ||
| Classroom: | TuTh; 9:30-10:45; Reid 102 | Lab room: | Traphagen 100 |
| Text: | Merritts et al., 1998, Environmental Geology, Freeman, New York. | ||
| Assistant: | Denny Capps | Office: | Traphagen 114; 994-4890 |
| For efficiency, students missing the first week of the class may be administratively dropped. |
| Please communicate with me before problems get out of hand! |
| Please respect me and each other by entering the classroom before 9:30. |
| Read the text before class, and ask questions before, during, and after class. |
| Cheating, of whatever type, may be punished by a failing grade, in the exercise or the course, without prior individual warning. |
| Use of another's work without explicit credit is plagiarism, which is cheating. This includes rewording of written text, use of material generated as a team without explicit credit to team members, direct copying, and possibly other activities. If there is any doubt, share the credit! |
| The approximate weight of each part of the course is:
Hour Exams (3) 15% each, Lab 25%, and Final Exam 30%. You must pass the lab to pass the course! |
| DAY | MONTH | DATE | TOPIC | CHAPTER |
| Th | Jan | 17 | Introduction | 1 |
| Tu | 22 | Dynamic Earth Systems | 2 | |
| Th | 24 | 2 | ||
| Tu | 29 | Geologic Time and Earth History | 3 | |
| Th | 31 | 3 | ||
| Tu | Feb | 5 | First Hour Exam - [Link to Sample Hour Exam] | 1-3 |
| Th | 7 | Lithosphere: Rocks and Sediments | 4 | |
| Tu | 12 | 4 | ||
| Th | 14 | Lithosphere: Resources, Hazards, and Change | 5 | |
| Tu | 19 | 5 | ||
| Th | 21 | Soils and Weathering | 6 | |
| Tu | 26 | 6 | ||
| Th | 28 | Second Hour Exam | 1-6 | |
| Tu | Mar | 5 | Surface Water | 7 |
| Th | 7 | 7 | ||
| Tu | 12 | SPRING BREAK | 8 | |
| Th | 14 | SPRING BREAK | 8 | |
| Tu | 19 | Groundwater | ||
| Th | 21 | |||
| Tu | 26 | The Atmosphere | 9 | |
| Th | 28 | 9 | ||
| Tu | Apr | 2 | Oceans and Coasts | 10 |
| Th | 4 | 10 | ||
| Tu | 9 | Third Hour Exam | 1-10 | |
| Th | 11 | Energy and Environment | 11 | |
| Tu | 16 | 11 | ||
| Th | 18 | Understanding Environmental Change | 12 | |
| Tu | 23 | 12 | ||
| Th | 25 | Recognizing and Predicting Environmental Change | 13 | |
| Tu | 30 | 13 | ||
| Th | May | 2 | Review and Assessment | |
| Tuesday | May | 7 | FINAL EXAMINATION - 12:00-1:50 PM | 1-13 |
NOTE: The "laboratory" in this course will include some traditional, hands-on, Geology lab activities, such as rock identification and map interpretation. The major activities, however, will involve research into and presentation and debate of issues of environmental significance, from local issues like leaky gasoline storage tanks to changes in the global environment.
| Week of: | Activity | Debate or topic | |
| Jan | 21 | Environmental Information Sources | How do you find out about "place"? |
| 28 | Minerals, Sediments, and Rocks | Geological Materials | |
| Feb | 4 | Contour (topographic) map interpretation | Debate1: World Population |
| 11 | Volcanic processes, hazards, and information | Debate2: Mining Act of 1872 | |
| 18 | Earthquakes: process | Debate3: Seismic hazard zoning | |
| 25 | Landslides | Debate4: The Green Revolution | |
| Mar | 4 | Surface Water | Debate5: Western water rights |
| 11 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| 18 | Groundwater | ||
| 25 | Atmosphere Processes | Debate6: Nuclear waste disposal | |
| Apr | 1 | Coastal and marine | Debate7: Asbestos hazard abatement |
| 8 | "Takings" role-play | Debate8: Zoning and "takings" | |
| 15 | EIS (or The next Oil Crisis) | Discussion: The "oil crisis" | |
| 22 | Global Change Research | Discussion: Global change | |
| 29 | Land Use Planning | ||