Earth surface processes and landforms, including tectonic, volcanic, weathering, soil, hillslope, karst, fluvial, glacial, periglacial, eolian, and coastal geomorphic systems. Relevance to environmental change and human impacts is stressed.
Athena Title
General Geomorphology
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in GEOG 3010E
Prerequisite
GEOG 1111 or GEOG 1113 or GEOG 1113E or GEOL 1121 or GEOL 1121E or GEOL 1121H or GEOL 1250-1250L or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to demonstrate a basic understanding and critical evaluation of physical, biological, and extraterrestrial processes that influence the spatial expression of landforms at local and regional scales.
Students will be able to construct and recommend analytical methods used to measure, quantify, model, and describe morphology, development, and decay of landforms.
Students will be able to describe and discuss the diversity of physical landforms and linkages with other environmental systems, and especially with humans and society, as well as the reciprocal interactions between human actions, societies, environmental hazards and human risks, and past/future global environmental change.
Students will be able to identify and defend the importance of science in the everyday functioning of society and our planet, and its crucial role in informing conservation policy, risk assessment, and decision making.
Students will be able to produce effective communication through writing by a series of writing assignments associated with supplemental reading and data analysis homework assignments.
Students will be able to demonstrate computer literacy through course administration, student-faculty electronic interactions, and data analysis activities and assignments.
Students will be able to demonstrate critical thinking through classroom discussions, homework assignments, lectures, and inquiry-based learning efforts.
Students will be able to examine moral reasoning and ethics related to linkages among the physical environment, social behaviors, hazards, human health and welfare, and appropriate technologies through lectures, writing assignments, classroom discussions, and inquiry-based learning activities.
