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"Ever wonder what went into making your favorite beach, mountain, or field? Historical Geology will have an answer that will exceed your expectations!"
-GEOL-20 student
An overview of the GEOL-20 schedule is provided below. Specifics for each semester will be announced in the course Canvas pages, but this should give you a basic idea of the course.
Outline
Week 1: Introduction to Historical Geology
Week 2: Geologic Time
Week 3: Earth Materials
Week 4: Sedimentary Rocks, Structures, and Environments
Week 5: Stratigraphy
Week 6: The Grand Canyon
Week 7: Reading Fossil Records
Week 8: Mass Extinctions
Week 9: spring break - no classes
Week 10: Plate Tectonics
Week 11: Hadean, Archean, and rock-eating microbes
Week 12: Proterozoic and early animal symmetry
Week 13: Paleozoic and your inner fish
Week 14: Mesozoic and your inner reptile
Week 15: Cenozoic and your inner monkey
Week 16: Assembling California
Grading
We will build a collaborative community of learning in this class. You can work together on nearly everything for this course, if you wish.
Weekly Concept Quizzes (20%). These are untimed, open-notes quizzes in Canvas meant to help you self-assess your learning.
Labs & In-class Assignments (50%). Students can work in pairs/groups to help each other.
Mid-term and Final Exam (30%). A study sheet is permitted, so you can focus on explaining your ideas rather than memorization. I encourage you to study together, although exams are the one element of the course you must complete alone. If your score is higher on the final, I'll drop your mid-term exam score.
If there's a waitlist, sign up and then email the instructor for their waitlist policy!
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