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Annual 2020-2021 Class Schedule

NOTE: This course schedule is subject to change based on instructional guidelines to comply with COVID restrictions. Courses may be added, cancelled, or moved quarters as deemed necessary.

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Course # Course Title Fall Winter Spring

FIRST-YEAR SEMINARS

102-6 Sustainability & Social Justice (First-Year Seminar)

Horton

DISTRIBUTION EARTH COURSES - 100-LEVEL

105-0

Climate Catastrophes in Earth History Hurtgen

106-0

The Ocean, The Atmosphere and Our Climate Blair
108 Geological Impacts on Civilization Bina
114-0 Evolution and the Scientific Method Sageman

CORE EARTH COURSES - 200-LEVEL

201-0 Earth Systems Revealed Jacobson
202-0 Earth's Interior Stein
203-0 Earth System History Hurtgen
204-0 Communication for Geoscientists Postponed to 2021-2022

ADVANCED EARTH COURSES - 300/400 LEVEL

300-0 Earth and Planetary Materials Jacobsen
310-0 Aqueous Geochemistry Jacobson
314-0 Organic Geochemistry Blair
342-0 Contemporary Energy and Climate Change Axford
343-0 Earth System Modeling Horton
350-0 Physics of the Earth Bina
352-0 Global Tectonics Stein
353-0 Mathematical Inverse Methods in Earth and Environmental Sciences van der Lee
360-0 Instrumentation and Field Methods Beddows
361-0 Scientific Programming in Python van der Lee
370-0 Geobiology Osburn
390 Special Topics: GIS Level 2 (Geographic Information Systems 2) Xie
390 Special Topics: Hydrology Beddows
390-0-08 R Data Science Xie
440-0-01 Advanced Topics: Stable Ca and Sr Isotope Geochemistry Jacobson
450-0 Advanced Topics Jacobsen
450-01 Advanced Topics: Sequence Stratigraphy, Facies Analysis, and Sea Level Change Sageman
450-0-02 Advanced Topics: Communicating Science Beyond Academia Axford
450-0-04 Advanced Topics: H Isotopes Osburn
519-0 Responsible Conduct of Research Training Beddows