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Syllabus This course will be delivered in-person or online via ZOOM when necessary. If lectures cannot be delivered in the classroom due to McGill restrictions or because I am ill or in quarantine, they are available as pre-recorded lectures or as ZOOM sessions held at the normal course lecture times. The pre-recorded lectures are available in *.mp4 format via Content > Lectures Videos (pre-recorded). I also provide pre-recorded PowerPoint lectures in *.pptx format via Content > Lectures Powerpoints (pre-recorded) and the PowerPoint slide set of the lectures without narration in *.pdf format via Content > Lectures PDF slideset. ZOOM sessions will be recorded. Links to recorded ZOOM sessions will be published on the myCourses site both via the ZOOM link in the navigation panel and via the Content link: Content > Zoom session recordings. For the ZOOM sessions I would normally be connecting from my home in the Laurentians. Term Work: On Thursday, starting on August 31, a short weekly online study quiz (listed via link to Quizzes as “Quiz Week ?” and in the Calendar) is offered. A reminder to do each quiz should come up on myCourses. To encourage you to follow the course throughout the term, your best 6 of these quizzes will contribute 30% to your term-work/participation component of grade. The quizzes are meant to keep you involved in the course. The first of the quizzes is listed as Quiz Week 0. Note that we count weeks from 0 to 11. The quizzes are accessed via myCourses. The normal study quizzes are time-limited to a suggested 20 minutes but you will not be closed out until you choose to submit the quiz or you shut down your link to the quiz through myCourses or the quiz's week long period comes to its end. You can access a quiz during any time between 16h00 (local time) following our Thursday lecture through to 23h59 on the following Wednesday evening; that is anytime during the 1-week open-access period. No quiz will be reopened for you if you miss it but we shall schedule a makeup quiz, Quiz Week 11 – Makeup, at the end of term that will cover for missed quizzes. You can do the first Quiz Week 0 twice and your better grade will be registered; it will address the first lecture and what you may already know and bring into this course from high-school or college. All subsequent quizzes allow only 1 attempt excepting Quiz Week 11 -- Makeup for which you will be given 2 attempts with the average grade (not your better grade) from the two attempts registered. A practice quiz that you may use to familiarize yourself with online quizzes via myCourses is available from August 31: Comprehensive Practice Quiz. Your best 6 quizzes contribute to a term-work/participation grade. A reminder to do each quiz should come up on myCourses in the ongoing calendar on the left side of the course homepage. Note (a myCourses quirk) that the current quiz will be listed here according to its terminal date/day/time of availability; you can open it any time during the preceding week but not after this terminal time, typically 23h59 on the Wednesday evening following the last week's lecture or preceding the current Thursday lecture. No time accommodations should necessary for SAA-registered students as these quizzes are fully open for a whole week. Some students may not be able to complete the minimum of 6 (of 10 available) study quizzes that forms the 30% term-work/class participation component of the grade; the last quiz, Quiz Week 11 – Makeup, counts as a normal weekly quiz or as the make-up quiz scaled to cover for any quizzes missed throughout the term. This quiz will be longer than the previous weekly quizzes at a suggested 40 minutes. It will include some short answer written questions. Midterms:
Final Exam: A 3-hour formal in-person written final exam will be scheduled during the December exam period. It will count for 40% of grade. It will comprise a mix of multiple-choice and true-false questions of the character of the online study quizzes as well as 7 short answer questions of which you are expected to answer 6. The M-C/T-F component of the exam will count for 20 marks; the best 6 of 7 short answer questions will count for 20 marks.
TOPICS by week We shall “attempt” to hold to this schedule by week. The order will be followed. Chapters are those of the textbook, available by link here: Essentials of Geology, Edition 7, by S. Marshak. The textbook should also be available in the Bookstore in online and hard-copy form. An online version of Edition 7 of the textbook can also be purchased from VitalSource; this online edition of the text is sufficient for the course. Week 0: Course Introduction/Organization (August 31) Week 1: The Earth in Context/Plate Tectonics (Chapters 1, 2) Week 2: Minerals/Igneous Processes (Chapter 3, 4) Week 3: Igneous Processes/Volcanoes (Chapters 4, 5) Week 4: Sedimentary Rocks/Deep Time (Chapters 6, 10) Week 5: Biography of Earth (Chapter 11) Midterm break: No lectures, no quiz. (special online Q&A session on Thursday October 12 at 14h30, they will be recorded) Midterm 1 (October 12-13) Week 6: Metamorphism/Structure and Mountain Building (Chapters 7, 9) (October 17 and 19) Week 7: Earthquakes (Chapter 8) Week 8: Energy and Mineral Resources/Mass Movements (Chapters 12, 13) Week 9: Running Water and Erosion/Oceans and Coasts (Chapters 14, 15) Week 10: Ground Water/Deserts (Chapters 16, 17) Week 11: Glaciation and Ice Ages (Chapter 18) Midterm 2 (November 16-17; note, no quiz November 16-22) Week 12: The Earth System (Chapter 19) Quiz Week 11 and Makeup (November 23 - December 5) Term work: weekly study quizzes (10 available, best 6 will count for 30% of final grade) (Fridays, open access for 1 week, starting on September 1.) Final exam (40%) (formal, during December exam period) Midterm tests (2 each worth 15%) (October 20 and November 24, online) Evaluation: -Study quizzes (your best 6 of 10): 30%
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