100 Level (Foundation Courses for Non-Majors, Majors & Minors)

• Course Code: 01:460:120
• Credits: 3
• Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
• SAS Core Certified: CCO, NS
• Instructor(s): Prof. Santiago-Ramos, Prof. Bidle, Prof. Severman
• Prerequisites: None
• Note: Designed for majors and minors; partially fulfills SAS Natural Sciences (NS) and Our Common Future (CCO) requirements. Credit not given for this course and 11:628:115, 120, 125, 204, 221 or 01:460:204, 209.

The course is designed to introduce students to the oceans through methods, rationale and discoveries with emphasis on the seafloor.

• Course Code: 01:460:103
• Credits: 1
• Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
• Instructor(s): Department Instructors
• Prerequisites: Permission of instructor or Undergraduate Program Director.
• Note: For students requiring fulfillment of the Geological Sciences lab requirement who have previously taken 01:460:100 Planet Earth. Lab times are those scheduled for 01:460:101 labs.

Explores mineral and rock identification, geological sample analysis, structural and seismological interpretation, and field observations.

Syllabus (Hanafi)

• Course Code: 01:460:102
• Credits: 3
• Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
• Instructor(s): Prof. Wright
• Prerequisites: 01:460:101 or 460:100 or by permission of instructor
• Note: Designed for majors and minors; partially fulfills SAS Natural Sciences (NS) requirement. Credit not given for both this course and 460:212 Earth & Life Through Time.

Principles and concepts of plate tectonics and reconstructing past geography and environments; the history of Earth's climate, environments, biogeochemical cycles, and life through time.

• Course Code: 01:460:101
• Credits: 4
• Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
• SAS Core Certified: NS
• Instructor(s): Prof. Swisher
• Prerequisites: None
• Note: Designed for those majoring in the sciences, and 01:460 majors and minors; partially fulfills SAS Natural Sciences (NS) requirement. Non-science majors/minors should take 460:100 Planet Earth. Credit not given for both this course and 460:100 Planet Earth.

Geological concepts, principles, processes, chemistry, and physics of the Earth and the interplay of Earth Systems. Course explores the Earth as a whole, its origin, structure, composition, history and the nature of the processes that resulted in its formation and its present state. Lecture 3 hours, lab 3 hours.

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