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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GES 101 or GEG 101. The structural controls and processes that affect the development of the surface of the earth. Emphasis on selected geologic environments.
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4.00 Credits
4, 3/2 Prerequisites: GES 101 and GES 103. Folds, faults, and other structural features in sedimentary and metamorphic terrains. Introduction to rock mechanics, regional tectonics.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: Upper-division status or permission of instructor. Introduction to environmental problems and their causes in the Great Lakes region. Environmental history of the Great Lakes. Case studies of current environmental problems and ongoing restoration efforts.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: GES 111 or equivalent. The sediments, structure, and history of the ocean basins.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: GES 111 or equivalent. Survey of coastal and deep-sea environments, with focus on the interaction of physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes operating in each. Emphasis on coastal environmental issues, including shoreline erosion and sealevel rise, coastal development, and marine pollution.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: GES 131 or equivalent. The moon and planets, their appearance, atmospheres, and surfaces. Planetary magnetic fields, asteroids, meteoroids, comets. Theories of the origin of the planetary system, the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Emphasis on recent problems in our understanding of the solar system.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: GES 131 or equivalent. How astronomers have determined the properties, energy, masses, and composition of stars, stellar evolution, the structure of the galaxy, and the movement of stars in the galaxy.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GES 131 or equivalent. Locating celestial objects in the night sky. Use of astronomical telescopes to locate, observe, and photograph stars, nebulae, and galaxies. Use of observing aids.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: GES 131 or equivalent. Cosmology, the primeval fireball, quasars, pulsars, black holes, origin of the elements.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: GES 101 and upper-division status. Chemical nature of the earth, emphasizing chemistry associated with the polluted environment.
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