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3.00 Credits
Available: fall 3 Cr. Hrs A survey of major world regions as bound together by environment, economics, culture, and politics. Includes consideration of world resource patterns and problems.
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4.00 Credits
Available: spring 4 Cr. Hrs This course introduces the history of the Earth and that of the life it supports. Major events in Earth and life history are explored including episodes of mountain building, glaciations, extinctions, climate change, and the evolution of species. The tools, techniques, and methods employed by geologists that help decipher the rock and fossil records are also examined. Lab exercises will include sedimentary rock identification and interpretation, stratigraphic and fossil analysis, geologic dating techniques, geologic maps, cross sections, regional geologic history, and local field trips. Corequisite: GEOL 102L.
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4.00 Credits
Available: fall 4 Cr. Hrs This course examines the interaction between modern society and Earth processes and resources. Natural Earth processes which adversely affect humans are considered including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding, meteorite impacts, mass wasting, coastal processes, and climate trends. The course also investigates the development of natural resources, pollution and waste disposal, climate change, land use and engineering, and energy resources. Lab exercises will provide real-world problems and will introduce techniques and skills that can be used to address these issues. Field trips are included with the course. Corequisite: GEOL 104L.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Hrs This course explores the geologic processes that have formed the unique and varied landscape of southern Idaho. The course will examine important events and/or topics related to the geologic development of southern Idaho such as the Yellowstone "hot spot", the 1983 Borah Peak earthquake, recent volcanism in the Snake River Plain, groundwater in southern Idaho, the Bonneville Flood, Ice Age glaciers, and landslides in the Snake River Canyon. The course will include required field trips to local areas of geologic interest.
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3.00 Credits
Available: fall and spring 3 Cr. Hrs This course provides an in-depth introduction to the basic concepts and uses of geographic information systems (GIS). The course introduces the student to the theory and techniques of GIS including the history of GIS, spatial data models, spatial and tabular data acquisition, spatial data management, spatial data analysis, and cartographic design and display. Emphasis in lab is placed on the hands-on use of ESRI ArcGIS Desktop software and includes exercises that allow the student to develop skills such as building, editing, and querying a GIS database; spatial data acquisition including digitizing and data capture using a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver; projecting data; basic spatial analysis; displaying spatial data using basic cartographic principles to create maps; and creating metadata. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the Computer Skills Assessment (CSA) or permission of instructor. Corequisite: GEOL 126L.
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2.00 Credits
Available: fall and spring 2 Cr. Hrs A survey of basic mapping concepts and global positioning systems (GPS). Topics include modeling the earth's surface, topographic maps, aerial photo interpretation, thematic maps, basics of GPS hardware, GPS theory and function, GPS data collection and organization, differential GPS data correction, and importing and manipulating GPS data in a user-friendly GIS application (ArcView).
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Available: fall, spring, summer 1-3 Cr. Hrs This number is applied to any of the science areas and is indicative of a workshop course that may not transfer to another institution.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Hrs This is a term-long project. Each credit hour is equivalent to 45 hours of work on the project. Students should make arrangements with instructors in their field of interest. The request form for this project must be filled out and approved by the instructor, department chairman, and Academic Dean and filed in the Records Office. Prerequisite: one lab science course.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Hrs This course provides an introduction to spatial analysis. The course will briefly review the principles of statistics and relate them to methods used in analysis of geographically referenced data. The course will introduce sampling strategies for data used in Geographic information systems (GIS) using raster and vector data structures. The fundamentals of conventional estimation techniques will be compared with geostatistical techniques. The course will present single and multi-layer statistical operations including classification, recode, interpolation, coordination, and modeling analysis vectors, raster and TINs. Applications and problems in spatial correlation will be discussed including interpretation of results of spatial analysis and error propagation. ArcVIew GIS. Spatial Analysis, Network and 3D extension software will be used to demonstrate and practice basic principles of spatial analysis. Corequisite: GEOL 226L.
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8.00 Credits
Available: spring 1-4 Cr. Hrs This Field-based course is designed for students who have completed prior coursework in geology/earth science and provides a unique opportunity for students to enhance their knowledge by visiting and studying exceptional geologic localities within a specific region. Field trips localities will vary by semester as will trip length (1 to 10 days). The class will include preparatory lectures, presentations, and a research project. The course is repeatable up to 8 credits hours. Additional student fees will be required. Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
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