This is an introductory course for undergraduates who want to pursue a degree in Earth Science as well as for those outside the major who wish to take a science course. The class covers a wide range of topics including plate tectonics, the rock cycle, weathering, climate, volcanos and California geology and  consists of lectures, lab sections where students work on skills to identify rocks and minerals and a class field trip (See pictures below).

This is a lower level general education course designed to reach a wide audience of undergraduates from all different backgrounds. Students watch movies that depict various topics in geosciences and then learn the actual science behind the relevant topic. Each unit focuses on a particular geoscience related hazard such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanos, hurricanes, etc.  Students learn about these topics not only through a scientific lens, but also a response/safety/preparedness perspective as well. This is a very popular class at UC Riverside.

This is an upper division course for earth science majors with an emphasis of geophysics. This course covers a wide range of topics including heat flow, magnetism, isostacy and seismology. Students have a weekly lab section where they implement problem solving techniques from the course to generate focal mechanisms for earthquakes, calculate crustal thickness from gravity data, etc.