3 Units
Lecture: 3 hours
This course is intended to provide an introduction to natural hazards as studied through the disciplines of geology, oceanography, astronomy, and meteorology. Lectures will be augmented with overhead transparencies, slides, and films. Through the course, students will learn to critically think as geologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, and astronomers do in order to solve earth science problems. Topics include the study of subsidence, flooding, mass wasting, wildfires, comet/asteroid impacts and extinctions, climate change, severe weather, coastal hazards, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Intended audience: This course is a general science class, intended to satisfy general education requirements for non-majors. Field trips may be required.
Transfer:
UC/CSU
| Spring 2010 | ESC 42 Syllabus | Instructor: White, G |
