I teach General Education courses as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Geological Sciences. Here is a list of courses to date:
GE-level
-U100 The Freshman Seminar
-GEOL 101 Geology of Planet Earth
-GEOL 102 Geology of Planet Earth Lab
-GEOL 122 The World Ocean
Undergraduate Courses for Geology Majors
-GEOL 235 Intro to Field Geology
-GEOL 309/L Earth Tectonics and Structure
-GEOL 310/L Structural Geology
-GEOL 490 Senior Capstone in Geology
**New for Fall 2021** GEOL 496 Environmental Justice and Geology
-GEOL 497 Research Design
-GEOL 535 Field Geology IV (now part of GEOL 430 Summer Field Camp)
Undergraduate Courses for Senior Science Majors (Graduate Credit available)
-SCI 496 Ultramicroscopy
Graduate Courses for MS Geology students
-GEOL 532/L Microtectonics
-GEOL 595SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy in the Geosciences
-GEOL 530 Advanced Structural Geology
-GEOL 590 Literature Seminar
-GEOL 694 Research Design
Dr. Miranda, Ben Moss (MS Geology, 2016), and David Annis (MS Geology, 2012) in the field for a Spring 2014 Structural Geology field trip in the White Mountains, California.
Dr. Miranda teaching about Microtectonics in a CSUN classroom.
A joint Intro Field Geology and Petrology field trip in the San Gabriel Mountains. Dinner + field work + fireside shenanigans...
Dr. Miranda and Jennifer Bautista (BS Geology 2019) cling to the outcrop in the Eastern Peninsular Ranges mylonite zone.
MS students Anya Castro Mendez and Gillian Rhea analyzing samples with the TESCAN MIRA4 SEM.
MS students Lonnie Hufford (MS Geology, 2018) and Courtney McGinn (MS Geology, 2018) and Dr. Miranda in Fiordland, New Zealand.
A way-too-pregnant Dr. Miranda leads the 2013 Structural Geology class field trip in the South Mountains core complex, Arizona.
Physics major Varderes Barsegyan and Geology major Shawna Couplin learn how to collect EDS data from geologic samples during the Spring 2015 Ultramicroscopy class.