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Students working together on a lab activity.
We reserve the right to revise this syllabus as necessary throughout the semester. Notice of revision will generally be given via email broadcast to registered students in the course.
Revised 8 January 2017
Important note: This syllabus is not a contract.
The laboratory teachers for this course are
All email communication to your teachers concerning this course should originate from your Baylor email account.
The laboratory portion of this course provides us with an opportunity to engage in active learning, and to get a close-up look at minerals, rocks, fossils, maps, and other materials that are important to the study of physical geology. This course overall is an attempt to explore and summarize the best scientific understanding of Earth's ~4.6 billion year age, evolution, composition, and major dynamic systems, as that understanding exists in the geoscience community based on published peer-reviewed scientific literature. We want you to become literate with respect to the Earth sciences (http://www.earthscienceliteracy.org).
Your goal should be mastery of the material that you are asked to learn in this course. This will take 1-2 hours of work for every 1 hour of scheduled lecture. If you are not willing to devote that amount of time to this course, you will not learn the material and, hence, there is little point in your taking this course. You need to commit to doing good work and learning the course material.
Lab-section text: Geo 1405, The Dynamic Earth, custom for Baylor University: Pearson Custom Library, available in two identical versions (different covers) from the Baylor Bookstore
The custom text is based on the 10th edition of Busch, 2014, AGI/NAGT Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology: Pearson, ISBN-10: 0321944518, ISBN-13: 9780321944511, 404 p. |
Dates | Topic | Required Prior Studying in Lab Book |
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Jan 10-12 | No Labs | |
Jan 17-19 | No Labs | |
Jan 24-26 | Introduction | handout or online reading |
Jan 31-Feb 2 | Minerals | chapter 1 |
Feb 7-9 | Igneous rock | chapter 2 |
Feb 14-16 | Sedimentary rock | chapter 3 |
Feb 21-23 | Metamorphic rock | chapter 4 |
Feb 28-Mar 2 | Lab Midterm Quiz | chapters 1-4 |
Mar 7-9 | No Labs -- Spring Break | Read a good geoscience book |
Mar 14-16 | Dating rocks, geologic time | chapter 5 |
Mar 21-23 | Topo maps | chapter 6 |
Mar 28-30 | Earth structures | chapter 7 |
Apr 4-6 | No Labs due to Diadeloso (!) | Take a nap |
Apr 11-13 | Earthquakes | chapter 11 |
Apr 18-20 | Streams | chapter 8 |
Apr 25-27 | Groundwater | chapter 9 |
The lab grade is based on the quality of your work on laboratory activities and the results of the end-of-lab and midterm quizzes. The lab grade is reported to the faculty member who teaches your lecture section as an integer percentage score out of a possible 100% perfect score. The lab grade comprises 25% of the total course grade, and the lecture part of the course supplies the remaining 75% of the grade.
Academic integrity refers to the "integral" quality of the search for knowledge that a student undertakes. The work a student produces, therefore, ought to be wholly his or hers; it should result completely from the student's own efforts. A student will be guilty of violating academic integrity if he/she...
(a) knowingly represents work of others as his/her own,
(b) uses or obtains unauthorized assistance in the execution of any academic work, including possessing or using a stolen copy of one of Professor Cronin's exams, or
(c) gives fraudulent assistance to another student.
After McGlynn, A.P., 2001
In the spirit of being a good steward of university resources, you must be careful not to damage or abuse samples, maps, models, reserve materials, or other resources provided for your use in this course.
Students agree that by taking this course, all required papers, exams, class projects or other assignments submitted for credit may be submitted to turnitin.com or similar third parties to review and evaluate for originality and intellectual integrity. A description of the services, terms and conditions of use and privacy policy of turnitin.com is available on its web site: http://www.turnitin.com. Students understand all work submitted to turnitin.com will be added to its database of papers. Students further understand that if the results of such a review support an allegation of academic dishonesty, the course work in question as well as any supporting materials may be submitted to the Honor Council for investigation and further action.
For answers to frequently asked questions about geology and science, go to http://www.baylor.edu/Geology/index.php?id=26719
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