Earth Sciences 4 - Earth Sciences and the Cinema

General Education Requirements Satisfied: PE-E; T2-Natural Sciences

Class Information

Professor:

Thorne Lay, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, E&MS C382, 459-3164
Office Hours: Room C382 Earth & Marine Sciences Bldg., MWF 11:00 am-12:00 noon
tlay@ucsc.edu

Teaching Assistants:

Danica Roth, Graduate Student in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Office Hours: TBD
dlroth@ucsc.edu

Heidi Stauffer, Graduate Student in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Office Hours: TBD
hstauffe@ucsc.edu@ucsc.edu

Lectures:

MWF 9:30-10:40, Earth and Marine Sciences B206

Discussion Sections:

All Held in Room D250 E&MS Building
M 3:30-4:30pm, M 5:00-6:00pm, Tu 10:00-11:00am
Tu 2:30-3:30pm, W 7:00-8:00pm, Th 2:00-3:00pm

Required Text:

You do not need to buy a text. There will be on-line notes, and powerpoints will be posted.

World Wide Web Addresses:

Main Web Site with Information and Lecture Notes: http://es.ucsc.edu/~thorne/EART4

Course Evaluation:

There is a total of 500 points that can be earned for required work. Two in-class exams will each be worth 100 points. A Disaster Diary term project will be worth 80 points. A Volcano project will be worth 100 points. A Screenplay term project will be worth 100 points. There will be 20 points of homework. Grades will be assigned relative to the Class mean/median. The central value will be at the breakover from C+ to B-.

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