Topics include rocks, fossils, structure, landforms, and economic resources of the state. Includes required field trips to several regions of Indiana for field observation and collection of mineral, rock, and fossil specimens. May be used to fulfill the general education earth science lab requirement with permission from the instructor. An introduction to the analysis of complex issues. Global actors, their values and policies, and the potential futures they create are investigated in the context of issues such as economic development, energy, food, and population.
Global interdependence is stressed.
The academic perspective is interdisciplinary, and the geographic focus is non-North American. Three hours of lecture and two hour discussion section per week. Also includes origin and occurrence of earth materials and their uses in economic and environmental contexts. Lab emphasizes observation of hand specimens and some thin-sections. Techniques Basic environmental survey techniques are discussed and applied in field situations.