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Geoscience

Course Code
GEOS 492  Credits
Title Senior Seminar and Research Capstone 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Writing Intensive Yes  
Description This course includes substantial experiences in disciplinary communications, including reading, writing, and speaking in the discipline. Projects include group discussion/debate of real world problems, practice interpreting professional texts, graphs, maps, and statistical data, multiple writing assignments, including a written report of personal research or professional activity, an oral public presentation of research, and three hours/week independent research/professional activity. 



Course Code
GEOS 492  Credits
Title Senior Seminar 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Student and faculty participants will give oral presentations of their own independent research and/or critical evaluation of professional literature. The course will review methods of library research and Geoscience research. Students must have taken at least one introductory course in Geosciences and must have attained junior status in a Geoscience major. 



Course Code
GEOS 494  Credits 1-5 
Title Research in Geosciences 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Individual research in collaboration with instructor. Product may be a written report, publication, or report at a professional meeting. Project and its format must be accepted by research advisor before registration. May be repeated for different research projects. 



Course Code
GEOS 497  Credits 1-3 
Title Research in Geosciences 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Individual research in collaboration with instructor. Product may be a written report, publication, or report at a professional meeting. Project and its format must be accepted by research advisor before registration. May be repeated for different research projects. 



Course Code
GEOS 499  Credits 1-3 
Title Continuing Studies Workshop 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Description Continuing Studies Workshop