Physical Geology for Non-Majors (actual title is "Our Geologic Environment")
Ben Laabs, North Dakota State University-Main Campus
This course is intended for non-science majors who have an interest in their physical environment. The course is designed to develop an understanding of the interaction of Earth processes, the environment, and the ...

Grand Valley State University: Earth Science in Secondary Education
Steve Mattox, Grand Valley State University
Earth Science in Secondary Education is designed to prepare students to teach Earth Science at the secondary level. The three-hour combined lecture/lab course requires students to review major content areas in ...

Introduction to Earth Systems Science
Aida Awad, Maine East High School; Charles Dodd, Shoreline Community College
This course is an introduction to Earth Systems Science. Earth Systems Science is the study of the complex interrelationships between materials and energy in the atmosphere and in the solid, fluid, and living ...

Geology of the National Parks
Bill Hirt, College of the Siskiyous
Geology of the National Parks uses global tectonics as a framework to help students to learn about the processes that are shaping Earth today by exploring the landscapes of parklands situated in a variety of plate ...

Principles of Geomorphology
Mark Sweeney, University of South Dakota
Geomorphology is the study of landforms and the processes involved in their creation and evolution through time. Climatic and tectonic controls on landform evolution will be emphasized in this class.

Intro to Geomorphology: Mountains, Rivers, Deserts
Kathleen Nicoll, University of Utah
This is a course that is listed BOTH as a General Education Physical Science Class, and as an upper level course for majors and graduate students.

From zero to Matlab in six weeks - with Freshmen
Frederik J Simons, Princeton University
How to bring Freshmen up to speed in Matlab programming. A series of targeted demonstrations and exercises accompanying a first one-semester course (a "Freshman Seminar") in the Geosciences as taught at ...

Semester Lab Research in Marine Geology
Patricia Manley, Middlebury College Summary Students cooperatively conduct original research in Marine Geology utilizing marine practices on Lake Champlain, NY - Vermont. The lab section of the course is used to ...

Causes and Implications of Global Change
This course embodies an integrated introduction to the broad scientific and social aspects of the global change "problem." Two large Global Change issues are discussed in terms of the science, the impacts ...

The Dynamic Earth
This course covers the formation and development of the solid earth, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and bio-sphere. The course studies the whole earth as a system of many interacting parts and focuses on the changes ...