Students develop their writing skills through a variety of homework assignments, tests, and quizzes.
Students will develop their observation skills to be able to recognize the various geological features and materials the earth is constructed from. This course addresses the general education outcomes of identification and evaluation of basic global, economic, and geographic forces as pertains to geology as well as to analyze how these forces shape the present and future, and possibly the past. The study of earth materials has and will have major impact on the global economic structure of our planet. The study of geology will address the issues of the interaction of man and his earth. The interaction of man and the environment as it pertains to earth materials as well as internal and external forces that affect the earth is also included in this course.