Course ID: | GEOG 1113L. 1 hour. 2 hours lab per week. |
Course Title: | Exploring Earth's Surface: Landforms and Environments Laboratory |
Course Description: | Optional laboratory for Exploring Earth's Surface: Landforms and Environments. |
Oasis Title: | Earth Surf Landforms Lab |
Pre or Corequisite: | GEOG 1113 or GEOG 1113E |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Successful completion of this laboratory course will provide the following learning
outcomes:
A basic understanding of scientific units, data acquisition, and data analysis in
earth science
Ability to use maps, aerial photographs, satellite imagery and other remotely sensed
data in the study of the earth’s surface
An opportunity to use scientific instrumentation for monitoring physical
environmental conditions and processes
Exposure to outdoor learning experiences that focus on applications of physical
processes in the local environment
An understanding of the scientific methods that have been used to collect and analyze
data on the nature of earth systems
An appreciation for the landforms and landscapes that make up our world, how they are
formed, how they are likely to evolve, and how we as humans are affected by them and
how we can degrade them
This course meets the following General Education Abilities by accomplishing the
specific learning objectives listed below:
Communicate effectively through writing. This is met by a series of writing
assignments associated with laboratory exercises.
Communicate effectively through speech. This is met by oral presentations,
discussion leading, and classroom participation.
Computer Literacy is addressed through course administration, student-faculty
electronic interaction, and data analysis activities and assignments.
Critical Thinking is central to the learning objectives of this class, and includes
the following elements, which are accomplished through laboratory activities and
assignments, lecture, classroom discussion/inquiry-based learning efforts:
Consider and engage opposing points of view
Support a consistent purpose and point of view
Assimilate, analyze, and present a body of information
Analyze arguments |
Topical Outline: | Fundamental Geographic Concepts
Topographic Maps
Plate Tectonics
Recurrence Intervals for Natural Events
Campus Weathering Profiles
Water Balance and Water Resources
Watershed Analysis
Fluvial Geomorphology
Coastal and Arid Geomorphology
Soils
Glacial/Quaternary Geomorphology |