Modeling course questionnaire form

==Modeling Course Questionnaire Form==
Thank you for your willingness to share information about your course!
Your answers below will be valuable in helping CSDMS Integration Facility Staff to develop educational products illustrating the power in coupling earth surface process models. Depending on your answers, we may contact you directly by email for further information about your course; however, rest assured that you will not be placed on any listserves or other automatic mailing lists as a consequence of completing this survey. 
Basic information
Name of course <FONT COLOR="#707070">(e.g. Modeling of Hydrologic Systems)</font>
Department abbreviation and course number <FONT COLOR="#707070">(e.g., CVEN 5363)</font>
Department name <FONT COLOR="#707070">(e.g., Civil Engineering)</font>
University <FONT COLOR="#707070">(e.g., CU Boulder)</font>
Your name
Your email address
Are you the primary instructor?<FONT COLOR="#707070">(If you are not the primary instructor, please list your role in the space to the right)</font>YesNo
When did you last teach this course? <FONT COLOR="#707070">(select all that apply)</font>Currently teaching
Taught within the last year
Taught within the last two years
Taught more than two years ago
Course level
 Graduate
 Undergraduate
 Both (cross-listed)
Course length 
 Semester (~16 weeks)
 Quarter (10-11 weeks)
 Other (please specify number of weeks)
If it's an UNDERGRADUATE course, indicate the assigned credit hours: 
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 Other (please specify)
If it's an UNDERGRADUATE course, approximately how many hours per week do you think students spend for all course-related work (including attending classes and labs, readings, completing assignments, etc.)? 
If it's a GRADUATE course, indicate the assigned credit hours: 
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 Other (please specify)
If it's a GRADUATE course, approximately how many hours per week do you think students spend for all course-related work (including attending classes and labs, readings, completing assignments, etc.)? 
Format <FONT COLOR="#707070">(select all that apply)</font> Lecture
 Discussion/Recitation
 Lab
 Field
If your course has a website, please provide the link
Course Description
Brief (a few sentences) description of course objectives, learning goals, and content; this can be copied from the university catalog course description. 
Please list any course prerequisites <FONT COLOR="#707070">(either specific courses or general skills)</font>
Please list the textbook(s) that are used in this course
Would you be interested in sharing your course syllabus?YesNo
Quantitative Treatment of Earth Surface Processes
Please indicate any software that students use in this course <FONT COLOR="#707070">(select all that apply)</font>.GIS software <FONT COLOR="#707070">(please specify the software name(s))</font>
HEC software
Excel or another spreadsheet
STELLA
Other <FONT COLOR="#707070">(please specify the software name(s))</font>
Please indicate any programming language(s) that students use in this course <FONT COLOR="#707070">(select all that apply)</font>. C
 C++
 Fortran
 Java
 Matlab
 Python
 Visual Basic
 Other <FONT COLOR="#707070">(please specify the name of the language(s))</font>
Please indicate the type of numerical modeling that students do <FONT COLOR="#707070">(select all that apply)</font>. Use existing code/software
 Create new code/software
Does this course incorporate analytical solutions or mathematical models?YesNo
Do the students learn and apply statistical techniques?YesNo
Do the students learn and apply GIS or spatial analysis?YesNo
Does this course address applied problems? Anthropogenic impacts <FONT COLOR="#707070">(please specify)</font>
 Climate change <FONT COLOR="#707070">(please specify)</font>
 Natural hazards <FONT COLOR="#707070">(please specify)</font>
 Natural resource management <FONT COLOR="#707070">(please specify)</font>
Please briefly list any other details you would like to share about the content of this course.
Relevance to CSDMS
Please indicate if you think the content of this course would be relevant to any of these CSDMS working groups and/or focus research groups (follow the links to learn more): Terrestrial
 Coastal
 Marine
 Hydrology
 Carbonate
 Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT)
 Cyberinformatics & Numerics
 Chesapeake Bay
Would you be interested in using any of the following CSDMS products in your course(s) in the future? (follow the links to learn more) CSDMS Modeling Tool
 EKT animation repository
 EKT lab repository
 EKT lecture repository
 EKT textbook repository
If you plan to use CSDMS products in your course, would you be willing to administer before and after evaluations to assess student learning?YesNo
Please provide suggestions on how you think CSDMS products could more effectively help you achieve your instructional goals. 
Please indicate if you have modeling simulations, labs, lectures, textbooks, or images that you would like to contribute to our portal Education and Knowledge Transfer repository (follow the link to see examples of these items in our repository).YesNo
If you responded YES to the above question, then please briefly describe these resources using the space provided to the right. 
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