Fall 2026

Quantitative Methods for Geoscience

QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR GEOSCIENCE teaches practical MATLAB programming and data analysis skills for geoscience applications.

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Historical reviews of Kurt Feigl: The course focuses on MATLAB usage, requiring students to learn coding from scratch to gain a good grasp of the basics.

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MATH 222, graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students

    • MATH 222
    • graduate/professional standing
    • member of Engineering Guest Students
    take one
GEOSCI/GLE 537

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  • Any of
    • MATH 222
    • graduate/professional standing
    • member of Engineering Guest Students

Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical instructor Kurt Feigl taught a quantitative methods course focused on MATLAB, which reviewers found useful for learning coding basics even without prior experience. He was noted for being helpful in answering questions and aiding student understanding.

KURT FEIGL is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

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Historical reviews of Kurt Feigl: Dr. Feigl's quantitative methods course is highly useful, teaching MATLAB basics effectively even to students with no prior coding experience.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.61 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Kurt Feigl: The course focuses on MATLAB usage, requiring students to learn coding from scratch to gain a good grasp of the basics.

Historical reviews of Kurt Feigl: Dr. Feigl is consistently helpful in answering questions and ensuring students understand the material, making the class a positive experience.

Topics

  • Data visualization and publishable figure development.
  • Automation of data processing.
  • Statistical and time-series analysis.
  • Image processing and mapping.
  • Optimization.

Skills

  • Practical programming and data analysis using MATLAB.
  • Data visualization and publishable figure development.
  • Automation of data processing.
  • Statistical and time-series analysis.
  • Image processing and mapping.
  • Optimization techniques.

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