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Spring 2027

4,369 courses

Individual mentored study for seniors completing theses for Honors in the Major, arranged with a faculty member.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

No recorded grade history

Capstone course covering practical GIS cases requiring programming, geospatial algorithm development, spatial analysis, database development, and web/mobile programming.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Practicum in GIS Development: students develop the ability to conceive and manage a real-world GIS development project and design a plan for solving it.

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historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Seminar surveying recent and classic works in political geography.

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Past student reviews · Robert Kaiser

The student rated the difficulty as 4 out of 5 and stated they could do the readings on their own.

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2025–Spring 2025 · limited sample

Covers principles, characteristics, and work of glaciers plus Pleistocene events, including a field trip.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sample

Interdisciplinary survey of Russian civilization from its beginnings through the present day.

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Past student reviews · Manon van de Water

Students completed weekly pop quizzes on readings and were required to attend external CREECA lectures, adding specific attendance demands to the standard workload.

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sample

Soil Geomorphology covers soil development in Quaternary landscapes, focusing on relationships between soils, climate, vegetation, and landscape evolution, including soil stratigraphy and field trips.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Joseph Mason

The available review indicates a difficulty rating of 1, but no specific details about workload or assessment demands were recorded.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample

Explores how human societies shape earth surface processes from local to global scales using an earth systems approach, analyzing impacts on biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2025–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Introduction to the City investigates urbanization processes and contemporary city forms, emphasizing spatial and social segregation by race, class, ethnicity, and gender.

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Past student reviews · Maha Ziadeh

The class required a final group project, tedious walking tours, and prompts requiring citations, with no exams.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Explores various urban empirical regularities and the theories which explain them.

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historical GPA · grades

Fall 2025–Fall 2025 · limited sample

Introductory geology covering Earth's structure, history, plate tectonics, minerals, rocks, landforms, maps, and climate change on geologic and human timescales.

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Past student reviews · Stephen Meyers

The course was low stakes; one student noted it was possible to earn an A by completing assignments without attending lectures, though lectures were described as interactive.

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Evolution and Extinction examines contemporary views on the origin and diversification of life, focusing on controversies regarding evolution, mass extinctions, and the co-evolution of Earth and life.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Clay Kelly

The workload included weekly readings with quizzes and roughly 2-3 hours of lecture per week. Some students found the content disorganized and difficult to follow while taking notes.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Covers the physical evolution of the Earth and its relationship to the development of life through geologic time, including a field trip.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Clay Kelly

Students found the course interesting as it covers all of Earth history.

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Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Explores the formation, collection, properties, and treatment of popular gemstones, covering their science and classification.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Huifang Xu

Exams were timed and consisted of 30 questions, requiring students to search through all lectures to find the correct answers.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Introductory course on applied geoscience data analysis covering uncertainty propagation, hypothesis testing, linear regression, time series, and experimental design for rock, soil, and water sampling.

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No recorded grade history

Topics in Geology covers special topics or discussions of recent research in Geoscience.

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No recorded grade history

Survey of sedimentation processes and products, covering depositional environments, sedimentary tectonics, sequence stratigraphy, and analytical methods.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Geological Field Investigation covers the study and application of principles and methods for geologic mapping and Earth history reconstruction.

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historical GPA · grades

Spring 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Principles of Economic Geology covers the composition, structure, occurrence, origin, and economic investigation of important groups of mineral deposits, including problems of mineral deposition.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sample

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