tindall@kutztown.edu

Public four-year institution, primarily undergraduate

15-30

This is an introductory course intended for students majoring in geology or other sciences. It satisfies the university's general education requirement in science, and is a prerequisite for all upper-level geology courses. The class meets for three one-hour periods and one three-hour period each week.

Students should be able to interpret the geologic history, tectonic setting, hazards and potential resources of an unfamiliar area using multiple data sets.

The course is structured around an activity, or set of activities, each week. Assignments provide students with practice reading maps, utilizing various kinds of data, and making interpretations. Activities build on each other, so that skills learned early in the semester are necessary to complete later, more complicated assignments.