credit programs Conference Center Professional Development and Enrichment Programs The Friday Center Credit Programs for Part-time Students

Credit Programs for Part-time Students

Geological Sciences

GEOL 101: Introduction to Geology

This course is an introduction to minerals and rocks. It covers major geologic events, such as earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountain formation, plate tectonics, and continental drifts. It also looks at landscape development by glaciers, streams and groundwater, ocean currents and waves, and wind.

Required Text

  • Grotzinger, Jordan, Press, and Siever, Understanding Earth, 5th edition (2006)

You may purchase the textbook at the Higher Grounds bookstore in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Trent McDowell, MS
  • Department: Geological Sciences
  • Credit hours: 3
  • Requisite: This course is not open to students with credit in or currently enrolled in GEOL 105, 109, or 111.
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View sample course syllabus.

<empty> How to Enroll

top of page

GEOL 105: Violent Earth

This course examines Earth as a dynamic planet, changing catastrophically through volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, and meteoric impacts. The causes and effects of these phenomena will be addressed as well as their impact on human development.

Required Text

  • Abbott, Natural Disasters, 6th edition (2008), ISBN 987-0-07-305034-8

You may purchase the textbook at the Higher Grounds bookstore in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Trent McDowell, MS
  • Department: Geological Sciences
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View sample course syllabus.

<empty> How to Enroll

top of page

GEOL 159: Prehistoric Life

This course explores the origin and evolution of life as examined from the perspectives of earth history and the fossil record.

Required CD-ROM

  • Carter and Tevesz, Prehistoric Life (CD-ROM), 2002. Formatted for Windows, but will work with Mac OS 10 or newer.

You may purchase the CD-ROM at the Higher Grounds bookstore in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. Please see Textbooks for textbook purchase dates.

Course Details

  • Instructor: Susanne McDowell, MS
  • Department: Geological Sciences
  • Credit hours: 3
  • UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
  • View sample course syllabus.

<empty> How to Enroll

top of page

Carolina Courses Online