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| Senior Project | |||
| SENIOR PROJECT | |||
| CLASS CODE: | GEOL 499 | CREDITS: 1 - 3 | |
| DIVISION: | PHYSICAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | GEOLOGY | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | A course which includes original research or field work and results in a publishable paper. | ||
| TAUGHT: | Fall, Winter, Summer | ||
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: | This course is intended to be a capstone experience for geology majors. A prospectus would need to be submitted to the geology department chairman and approved. The student would work with a faculty supervisor until the thesis is completed. The project should result in a product that is publishable or could be presented orally in a seminar. Credit will be given for the course upon completion. | ||
| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: | 1. Apply and expand learned principles and skill to real-world geoscience problems/projects. 2. Gain greater vision of the ature of scientific esearch. 3. Develop scientific problem-solving, writing and presentation skills. 4. Develop skills in developing and completing a project on-budget and on-time. 5. Establish professional career-networking links that will assist the student upon graduation. |
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| REQUIREMENTS: | Complete an approved project requiring original research or field work as in a prospectus. Publish or give an oral presentation on the results. | ||
| PREREQUISITES: | Completion of senior level courses in geology. English 316 should have been completed also. | ||
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 2003 | ||