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This course website is also served from the encryption-secured Department of Earth and Planetary Science server: EPSC-221 _________________________ Syllabus This course will be delivered in a blended mode, preferably in-person but online when necessary in order to conform to the Provincial Covid-19 accommodations. Whether in-person or online, the schedule for lectures will follow the published lecture timetable; that is in-person or online interactive lecture/Q&A sessions will be delivered at 16h30 (Eastern time), Tuesday and Thursday starting Thursday September 2. Whether in-person or online, I expect the lectures will be available as recorded on myCourses. I shall offer supplementary ZOOM sessions as/if necessary. Students are expected to reserve these lecture times for the in-person lectures when available or the substituted online lectures when necessary. The online sessions will be served using the ZOOM conferencing service. The online sessions will be recorded; in-person lectures will be recorded by the McGill Lecture recording system. Moreover, pre-recorded asynchronous lectures are available; they are posted on the myCourses website. They can also be accessed via the Banner above “Lectures”. When we are restricted to the online service, I shall be connecting to the ZOOM sessions from my home in the Laurentians. Internet quality may be poor; you should look to the News and Highlights page to learn of any connectivity problems that I might be facing. The Powerpoint lectures are available asynchronously (See Lectures in the banner above). There, you can find the lectures in three formats. The online ZOOM sessions will be interactive; you can break into my story and ask questions as we go. It may be profitable to view the pre-recorded lectures are offered as PowerPoint slidesets with narrations (probably the most versatile but requiring access to Powerpoint software) and as videos in *.mp4 format via the “Lecture Recordings” link and the “Content” link in the Navigation panel in myCourses. PDF versions without animation or narrations are also provided. While I don't want to encourage you to use any particular software or browser, the *.mp4 versions of the asynchronous lectures stream very nicely to a Firefox browser or to the Google Chrome (or Chromium clone on Linux) browser. Firefox video play is sometimes irregular though. On the Friday of each week, starting on September 10, a weekly online quiz (listed via link to Quizzes as “Quiz Week ?”) is to be taken for grade. The quizzes are accessed via myCourses. The quizzes are time-limited to 20 minutes (with some over-run time and accommodations for OSD students) but you can access the quiz during any time between 00h00 and 23h40 (Eastern time) on the concerning Friday. There are 12 quizzes; your best 10 will count toward 30% of grade. A reminder to do the quiz should come up on myCourses. A practice quiz that you may use to familiarize yourself with online quizzes via myCourses is posted on September 3, Quiz Week0. Students who require OSD accommodations must register with the OSD office. Laboratories will count for 40% of course grade. They will start the week of September 20. The labs are run by TAs who will inform you via myCourses of when and how each lab is to accomplished. The Laboratories schedule is shown below. A final exam will be scheduled during the December examination period. It will count for 30% of course grade. It may be a formal sit-down written exam (preferred) or online.
TOPICS by week We shall “attempt” to hold to this schedule by week. The order will be followed. Chapters are those of the textbook, Essentials of Geology, Edition 6, by S. Marshak. The textbook should be available in the Bookstore. An online version of Edition 6 of the texbook can be purchased from VitalSource; this online edition of the text is sufficient for the course.
Week 0: Course Introduction/Organization (September 2 possibly continuing to September 7) Week 1: The Earth in Context/Plate Tectonics (Chapters 1, 2) (September 7 and 9) Week 2: Minerals/Igneous Processes (Chapter 3, 4) (September 14 and 16) Week 3: Igneous Processes/Volcanoes (Chapters 4, 5) (September 21 and 23) Week 4: Sedimentary Rocks/Deep Time (Chapters 6, 10) (September 28 and 30) Week 5: Biography of Earth (Chapter 11) (October 5 and 7) Midterm break: No lectures (online Q&A session on Thursday October 14 and Friday October 15 at 16h30) Week 6: Metamorphism/Structure and Mountain Building (Chapters 7, 9) (October 19 and 21) Week 7: Earthquakes (Chapter 8) (October 26 and 28) Week 8: Energy and Mineral Resources/Mass Movements (Chapters 12, 13) (November 2 and 4) Week 9: Running Water and Erosion/Oceans and Coasts (Chapters 14, 15) (November 9 and 11) Week 10: Ground Water/Deserts (Chapters 16, 17) (November 16 and 18) Week 11: Glaciation and Ice Ages (Chapter 18) (November 23 and 25) Week 12: The Earth System (Chapter 19) (November 30 and December 2) Laboratories:syllabus.pdf
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Contact hours: During the term, it may be that in-person contacts will be unavailable. We await the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Course administration issues In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in this course have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded. McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/ for more information). Conformément à la Charte des droits de l’étudiant de l’Université McGill, chaque étudiant a le droit de soumettre en français ou en anglais tout travail écrit devant être noté (sauf dans le cas des courssyllabus.pdf dont l’un des objets est la maîtrise d’une langue). L'université McGill attache une haute importance à l’honnêteté académique. Il incombe par conséquent à tous les étudiants de comprendre ce que l'on entend par tricherie, plagiat et autres infractions académiques, ainsi que les conséquences que peuvent avoir de telles actions, selon le Code de conduite de l'étudiant et des procédures disciplinaires (pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez consulter le site www.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/ ). Textbook (current, coming and previous editions) The bookstore should have copies of the current edition of Essentials of Geology, Edition 6 by Marshak. You might find used copies of earlier editions available; any of the previous editions will well serve the course. An online version of the texbook can be purchased from VitalSource.
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