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The Earth
GEOL
111
Dr.
A. H. Wulff
Class
Meetings: 10:20 am – 11:15
am MWF
Lecture Room: 260 EST Bldg. |
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Textbook: Earth:
Tarbuck and Lutgens ; 8th
Edition with CD-ROM; Prentice Hall
Lab Manual – Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology;
AGI/NAGT, Busch (ed.) Prentice Hall
Attendance: Attendance and participation are strongly encouraged. Students are responsible for all material covered in class, whether or not they are in attendance. I expect students to be on time, and to stay the entire lecture period. It is expected that you will respect those students seated around you in class!
Assignments: The last assignment is optional, but is, obviously, a good choice if you need a extra boost with your grade. It involves a walk around campus looking at building stones and such and answering questions. You may find the assignment HERE
Online Tests: Your text has online tests available to take at this site: The Earth. Click on the “Enter Site” link and choose a chapter. Chapter Tests are located on the left side (along with Concept reviews and such). Click on the test – answer the questions – and submit to be graded. The site will tell you the correct answers to those questions. These tests are available to help in getting experience in taking different types of tests. You are strongly encouraged to take these tests, as it is silly to lose points due to the format of the test. If you wish, you may submit the grade to Dr. Wulff at andrew.wulff@wku.edu
Class Notes and such
The final OPA - “opportunity for personal assessment” is scheduled for Tuesday, May 6 at 10:30 a.m.
The “To-Knows” list may be found by clicking HERE
The text portion of the lecture notes may be found by clicking HERE
The slides from each lecture are posted outside Dr. Wulff’s office (EST 437). You are welcome to come by and look at them in order to fill in gaps in your notes. Please do NOT take the notes, as that affects others’ use of them.
Learning and Studying Helps
Learning requires effort. Just sitting there will not cut it in this course. So – take control of your learning!
You will find a good page on Learning Strategies
from
Course Syllabus and Schedule: click here for last semester’s syllabus
* Other assignments may be given concerning topical
issues covered during the course of the semester.
A passing grade may be achieved by obtaining a minimum of 60% of the 500 points
possible. No exceptions will be considered.
Laboratory
The Earth Sciences are observational sciences and, because of such, the
laboratory is an essential part of the course. Students are expected to be
prepared (have the appropriate chapter read and have the appropriate materials)
before they come to the lab, and to remain in the lab for the entire period, or
until the exercise is completed. Come, stay, and pay close attention!!
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW) offers a multitude of interesting sites and resources for both research, and feeding your curiosity. I'm sure that this will not be the only course (or opportunity) to use the Web. So - have at it!!
Metals and Hydrates
Resources Links
Volcano Links
Earthquake Links
Landslides, Mass
Wasting and Tsunami links
Tutorials on Plate
Tectonics and misc.
Jobs, Internships Links
Referencing the WWWeb
A final word concerning any of the information you glean from the WWW; there is
no peer review process in place for WWWebsites - which
means that ANYONE can put something on the WWWeb. Be
careful to check all the sources and (if you can) find out a bit concerning the
person (s) in charge of maintaining the site.
If you do use materials from the WWWeb, be sure to reference them accordingly. A few suggestions may be found in an article called: “Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet by Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger. It shows examples of how to cite web pages, newsgroups, email, etc. You may find it at: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/inbox/mla_archive.html. Especially in the sciences, very little scholarly work is available on the web. The libraries are still the best source of accurate information.
There are several good online sources offering criteria that can be used to assess whether a web page should be trusted. At this site Dan McDowell presents some questions to ask as you evaluate whether you can rely on the information such as: 1) who wrote it; 2) who published it; 3) are opinions included; and 4) when was it written?
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Latest Revision:
Jan. 9, 2008