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Not open to students who have passed ERTH 1010, 1050, 1051, or 1070.
Welcome to the Honors Core version of introductory geoscience! The main goal is for you to learn how Earth works, what its history has been, and how you can put this knowledge to good use to reframe environmental thinking, mitigate natural hazards, and obtain the resources we need. Climate change, ecological collapse, human inequality, and planetary futures look very different when seen through an earthly lens.
The main pedagogy emphasizes hybrid learning via pre-class readings & explorations followed by in-class demonstrations, student presentations, and breakout sessions. Each week you will link beautiful specimens from UConn’s Stone Pavilion to a unique campus place and to an American region. Your final creative project will be shared during a student symposium. There are no exams.
By the end of this course, you will: Comprehend the Earth as a grand holistic system; Realize that your world occupies a thin membrane created from above and below; Appreciate the emergence of America’s scenic and cultural diversity in deep time, and; Realize that geoscience is a rigorous, environmental STEM career with excellent job prospects.
General Education information ERTH 1055 is a CA 3 (TOI-6) non-laboratory course. Adding the geoscience laboratory (ERTH 1052) to it fulfills your CA 3-Laboratory requirement.