Attendance Weekly attendance is required. Attend only the section for which you are registered. If you miss a lab, you must have a valid written excuse to make up the work. Makeups should be done within 2 weeks of the missed lab - do not wait until the end of the semester to ask for a makeup.
Lab work Exercises are designed to be finished in class and will be turned in at the end of each session. You may work together in lab, but make sure you understand the answers you record.
Lab exams There will be a lab midterm on Feb. 28 - Mar.
1 and a lab final on Apr.25 - 26. Both will include rock identification.
Grading Lab is worth 30% of your total grade (20% for exercises and 5% for each exam).
Week |
Topic |
| Jan. 17-18 | Map and Computer Resources |
| Jan. 24-25 | Topographic Maps |
| Feb. 1-2 | Minerals & Rocks |
| Feb.7-8 | Grand Canyon |
| Feb. 14-15 | Parks of the Colorado Plateau |
| Feb. 21-22 | Badlands, Mammoth Cave |
| Feb. 28-Mar.1 | LAB MIDTERM |
| March 7-8 | Great Smoky Mountains, Acadia |
| March 14-15 | Rocky Mountain, Glacier |
| Mar, 28-29 | Yellowstone, Grand Teton |
| April 4-5 | Yosemite, Sequoia/King's Canyon |
| April 11-12 | Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens |
| April 18-19 | Hawaii Volcanoes, Haleakala |
| April 25-26 | LAB FINAL |
Please report any problems to herrstro@uiuc.edu.