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1 | Course# | Title | Semester | Description | Syllabus (most recent) | |||||||||||||
2 | EESC1110 | Geology of National Parks | Spring | Discuss basic modern scientific methods and fundamental geological concepts through the exploration of various National and State Parks. | ||||||||||||||
3 | EESC1125 | Exploring Earth History | Spring | Explore the history of the earth and the development of life on Earth during the last 4.6 billion years. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
4 | EESC1132 | Exploring the Earth (with lab section) | Fall | Discuss the origin and materials of the Earth and the processes by which it has evolved. | 2022 | |||||||||||||
5 | EESC1140 | Our Mobile Earth | Summer | An introduction to the structure of Earth and the dynamic processes that continuously shape and remodel its surface. | 2020 | |||||||||||||
6 | EESC1146 | Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth | Spring | An exploration of the current theories on the origins of life. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
7 | EESC1147 | Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth Discussion | Spring | *discussion section | ||||||||||||||
8 | EESC1150 | Astronomy | Fall | Observations of large-scale astronomical concepts and how we know what we know about the stars, our galaxy, and the universe. | ||||||||||||||
9 | EESC1157 | Oceanography | Fall | An investigation of the world's ocean as an integrated system driven by geological, chemical, physical, and biological processes. | ||||||||||||||
10 | EESC1163 | Environmental Issues and Resources | Summer | Course includesthree major topics: (1) Intro to Environmental Geology, (2) How to write field trip reports, (3) Using Google Earth to understand Earth Materials and Processes | 2021 | |||||||||||||
11 | EESC1168 | Environmental Geosciences: Earth Processes and Risks | Fall/Spring | Explore the dynamic processes of the earth and how those processes can impact humans in the form of natural disasters. | ||||||||||||||
12 | EESC1170 | Rivers and the Environment | Fall | Learn about the natural processes of rivers and watersheds, and how this knowledge is used to manage, protect, and restore these systems. | 2020 | |||||||||||||
13 | EESC1172 | Weather, Climate, and Environment | Fall | Examine the earth's weather systems through daily, seasonal, and annual variations, and the earth's climate over centuries and millennia. | ||||||||||||||
14 | EESC1174 | Climate Change and Society | Spring | Investigate the scientific basis for global warming forecasts and explore the potential impacts of climate change on society. | ||||||||||||||
15 | EESC1177 | Cosmos | Spring | Discuss space missions and their scientific goals and results, to answer questions of planetary evolution and the possibility of extraterrestrial biospheres. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
16 | EESC1180 | The Living Earth I (with lab section) | Fall | This core course provides a broad and modern presentation of the major topics and principles of Earth Science. | ||||||||||||||
17 | EESC1182 | The Living Earth II (with lab section) | Spring | This is the second semester of EESC1180 and may be taken independently of EESC1180 | ||||||||||||||
18 | EESC1187 | Geoscience and Public Policy | Spring | Explore case studies that demonstrate the role of the earth sciences in addressing problems of public policy. | ||||||||||||||
19 | EESC1195 | Introduction to Space Weather | Spring | Develop skills for understanding the natural world by investigating the relationship between the physical processes on the Sun and the changes in the space environment surrounding Earth. | ||||||||||||||
20 | EESC1222 | Conservation Ecology in Ecuador | Summer | An active learning course on tropical ecology and the conservation of tropical ecosystems that are the most biodiverse on Earth. | ||||||||||||||
21 | EESC1301 | Climate Change and Sustainability: An Environmental Chemistry View | Summer | Learn sustainability within the context of environmental chemistry and the responsibility of living in a world with a rapid depletion of natural resources and environmental degradation. | ||||||||||||||
22 | EESC1501 | Global Implications of Climate Change | Fall | Examining the science behind and the variance of global distribution in causes, effects, and costs of climate change. | ||||||||||||||
23 | EESC1502 | Global Implications of Climate Change Lab | Fall | *lab section | ||||||||||||||
24 | EESC1503 | Global Implications Discussion | Fall/Spring | *discussion section | ||||||||||||||
25 | EESC1507 | Powering America: The Past and Future of Energy, Technology, and the Environment | Spring | Explore U.S. energy over time from the perspectives of history, culture, technology, engineering, and foreign policy. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
26 | EESC1508 | Powering America Lab | Spring | *lab section | ||||||||||||||
27 | EESC1701 | Building a Habitable Planet: The Origins and Evolution of the Earth: Geoscience Perspectives | Spring | Introduction to the scientific method and the tools of geology, geochemistry, and geophysics used to unlock the history of the Earth from beginning to the present day. | ||||||||||||||
28 | EESC1702 | Living on the Water: Coasts, Development, and Sea Level Change from Venice to Boston | Fall | Examine the impacts of coastal development using historical and modern perspectives. Consider current actions that respond to rising sea level and make predictions about future change. | ||||||||||||||
29 | EESC1717 | Making the Modern World: Design, Ethics, and Engineering | Fall/Spring | Lecture, Lab, & Discussion. Explore the history of engineering and understand the political, environmental, economic, and ethical tradeoffs associated with building the modern world. | ||||||||||||||
30 | EESC1720 | Crisis and Storytelling in the Age of Climate Change | Fall/Spring | Lecture, Lab, & Discussion. This course focuses both on hearing stories about climate change as told by climate writers, scientists, and members of frontline communities, and telling these stories ourselves. | ||||||||||||||
31 | EESC2201 | Environmental Systems: The Human Footprint (with lab section) | Fall/Spring | Lecture & Lab. Explore the influence of humans on natural systems and how environmental solutions and consequences link to social, political, economic, health, and justice issues. | 2020 | |||||||||||||
32 | EESC2202 | Environmental Systems: Ecosystems (with lab section) | Fall | Lecture & Lab. An introduction to the science of ecology, the interaction of organisms and their physical environment. Concepts include food webs, trophic dynamics, and ecosystem services. | ||||||||||||||
33 | EESC2203 | Environmental Systems: Water Resources (with lab section) | Spring | An introduction to the science of hydrology: the water cycle, surface and ground water flow, water use by humans, and threats to water supply. | 2017 | |||||||||||||
34 | EESC2204 | Environmental Systems: Geochemistry (with lab section) | Spring | An introduction to the chemical processes in various environmental systems and how human activities are changing them. | ||||||||||||||
35 | EESC2205 | Environmental Systems: Climate Change (with lab section) | Fall | An introduction to how Earth's climate works, the history of past climate changes, current trends and projected future conditions. | 2019 | |||||||||||||
36 | EESC2206 | Environmental Systems: Oceans (with lab section) | Spring | An introduction to the ocean's role in earth processes and explores topics and challenges facing a changing planet through case studies and critical and analytical thinking. | ||||||||||||||
37 | EESC2207 | Environmental Systems: Earthquakes (with lab section) | Spring | An introduction to plate tectonics. What makes earthquakes one of the most complex and unpredictable of earth processes? | ||||||||||||||
38 | EESC2208 | Environmental Systems: Quantitative Methods (with lab section) | Spring | An introduction to mathematical topics that are commonly used in analyses of environmental systems. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
39 | EESC2220 | Earth Materials (with lab section) | Spring | Explore the basic materials present in the Earth and on the Earth's surface and the processes that shape them into the known classifications of groups of rocks. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
40 | EESC2264 | Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (with lab section) | Fall/Spring | Learn how to "read" the history recorded in rocks. This course will cover the basics of sedimentary rock description recognition and correlation over long distances in the field. | ||||||||||||||
41 | EESC2297 | Environmental Hydrology | Fall | An introduction to hydrologic processes on and near the Earth's surface. | ||||||||||||||
42 | EESC3300 | Space Weather and Consequences for Modern Human Technology | Fall | Address how adverse space weather conditions may disrupt satellites, communication and navigation systems, electric power grids, aviation, and other technologies on Earth. | ||||||||||||||
43 | EESC3310 | Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture | Fall | Learn how the principles of ecology can be applied to the design, management, and analysis of agroecosystems and agricultural landscapes with the goal of creating a sustainable food system. | ||||||||||||||
44 | EESC3320 | Introduction to Geochemistry | Spring | Apply the principles of chemistry to investigate the chemical compositions of the Earth system, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere. | ||||||||||||||
45 | EESC3330 | Paleobiology | Spring | The study of evolution based on Paleontology, the fossil record of life through geologic time. Lecture emphasizes paleobiology and environmental evolution. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
46 | EESC3335 | Topics in Geobiology | Spring | Examine the dynamic interface between biology and geology as deduced from Earth's 4-billion-year rock record. | 2020 | |||||||||||||
47 | EESC3378 | Petrology | Fall | Use polarizing light microscopy (PLM) for petrology on igneous and metamorphic rocks. Discover how these rocks form and how they relate to the plate tectonic environments. | ||||||||||||||
48 | EESC3379 | Petrology Lab | Fall | *lab section | ||||||||||||||
49 | EESC3380 | Environmental Oceanography | Spring | Examine fundamental physical, chemical, geological, and biological processes occurring in ocean environments, how they impact humans and how humans have impacted the ocean. | ||||||||||||||
50 | EESC3385 | Structural Geology (with lab section) | Fall/Spring | Develop skills in the structural analysis of rock bodies to gain an understanding of the geometries, sequencing, and kinematics of deformational features. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
51 | EESC3391 | Introduction to Geophysics | Fall | An introduction to the fundamental principles of geophysics, examining both theoretical and applied aspects. | ||||||||||||||
52 | EESC3398 | Statistical Analysis of Scientific Data | Fall | A look at the application of statistical methods commonly used to acquire, analyze, and interpret many different types of scientific data. | ||||||||||||||
53 | EESC4400 | Geomorphology | Fall | The study of landforms, landscapes, and the processes that have shaped them. | ||||||||||||||
54 | EESC4401 | Geomorphology Lab | Spring | *lab section | ||||||||||||||
55 | EESC4418 | Hydrogeology | Spring | An introductory course in groundwater hydrogeology for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. | ||||||||||||||
56 | EESC4424 | Environmental Geophysics | Fall | Discuss methods that are used in environmental site assessments and geotechnical engineering work. Conduct geophysical investigations of selected field sites. | ||||||||||||||
57 | EESC4440 | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | Spring | Review the Earth's major biogeochemical cycles using different approaches, including isotopic tracers and mathematical models. | ||||||||||||||
58 | EESC4455 | Exploration Seismology | Fall/Spring | An introduction to the basics of exploration seismology focusing on theories used in the acquisition, processing, and presentation of seismic refraction and reflection data. | ||||||||||||||
59 | EESC4456 | Exploration Seismology Laboratory | Spring | *lab section | ||||||||||||||
60 | EESC4460 | Introduction to Seismology | Fall | Topics include seismic instruments, properties of vibrations and waves, seismic wave propagation, reflection and refraction, earthquake sources, and earthquake hazards. | ||||||||||||||
61 | EESC4463 | Paleoclimate Dynamics | Spring | Explore the variaility of the Earth's climate over time by understanding the forcings, feedbacks, and other processes responsible for producing these changes. | ||||||||||||||
62 | EESC4464 | Environmental Data Exploration and Analysis | Spring | Learn to think statistically and computationally and to write computer programs to analyze Earth science data sets. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
63 | EESC4467 | Glacial and Pleistocene Geology | Spring | This course will explore three topics: the physics of glaciers, the glacial deposits of the last ice age, and the history of the Pleistocene epoch. | ||||||||||||||
64 | EESC4480 | Applications of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) | Spring | Discuss fundamental concepts and practical applications of GIS in the geosciences, environmental sciences, land use, and other related fields. | ||||||||||||||
65 | EESC4481 | Applications of GIS Lab | Spring | *lab section | ||||||||||||||
66 | EESC4485 | Advanced Structural Geology | Fall | A deeper exploration of principals presented in Structural Geology (EESC3385), focusing on microstructures, complex geometries, and multiple generations of deformation. | ||||||||||||||
67 | EESC4490 | Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation | Fall/Spring | Learn methods for geologic interpretation of remotely sensed image data. Discuss strategies for effective visual communication of data and methods of digital image analysis. | ||||||||||||||
68 | EESC5140 | Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology | Fall | An introduction to the isotopic methods used in the Earth Sciences. With emphasis on geochemical behavior, analytical methods, and applications of these isotope systems in geology. | ||||||||||||||
69 | EESC5518 | Estuarine Studies | Spring | An exploration of the geological, chemical, physical, and biological processes occurring in estuaries. | ||||||||||||||
70 | EESC5535 | Coastal Processes (w/ Approval) | Spring | A study of the physical and geological processes responsible for the formation and evolution of coastal environments. | ||||||||||||||
71 | EESC5540 | Marine Biogeochemistry (w/Approval) | Fall/Spring | Using marine biogeochemical tracers as a tool to understand the ocean as a system and to investigate the physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes that control the tracers. | ||||||||||||||
72 | EESC5543 | Tectonics (w/ Approval) | Fall | Focus on understanding the linkages between the dynamic processes of lithospheric plate movement and the Earth's surface through time. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
73 | EESC5549 | Climate Change Debates (w/ Approval) | Fall | An advanced seminar that provides an overview of the science of global change and a critical evaluation of the literature through a survey of current scientific debates. | ||||||||||||||
74 | EESC5582 | Senior Environmental Geoscience Research Seminar I | Fall | Part 1 of a two-semester course sequence, that introduces students to the process of conducting original scientific research. | 2021 | |||||||||||||
75 | EESC5583 | Senior Research Seminar II | Spring | Part 2 of EESC5582 introducing students to the process of conducting original scientific research. | see above | |||||||||||||
76 | EESC5595 | Senior Thesis Seminar | Fall/Spring | Independent study in Geological Sciences or the Environmental Geosciences under the direction of a faculty member for undergraduate students. | ||||||||||||||
77 | EESC5596 | Undergraduate Reading and Research in Environmental Geoscience | Fall/Spring | An independent study of some problem or area of knowledge in environmental geoscience under the direction of a faculty member. | ||||||||||||||
78 | EESC5597 | Undergraduate Reading and Research in Geology | Fall/Spring | An independent study of some problem or area of knowledge in geology under the direction of a faculty member. | ||||||||||||||
79 | EESC5598 | Undergraduate Reading and Research in Geophysics | Fall/Spring | An independent study of some problem or area of knowledge in geophysics under the direction of a faculty member. | ||||||||||||||
80 | EESC5599 | Advanced Independent Research | Fall/Spring | Independent study in the Geosciences under the direction of a faculty member for undergrad students qualifying for the University's Scholar of the College Program. | ||||||||||||||
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