Fall 2016 SFA

GOL 410 •

Syllabus ~ for lecture and lab

Instructor: Dr. Chris Barker Department: Geology Approximate grade scale: 90–100 = A; 80–89 = Email: [email protected] B; 70–79 = C; 60–69 = D; 59 or less = F

Phone: (936) 468-2340 IMPORTANT DATES: : http://www.geology.sfasu.edu/barker.html Website Lecture tests: Office: Rm. 305, Miller Science Building • Test 1: Oct. 3 Office Hours: Tues: 8-10 am, 2-5 pm; Thurs: • Test 2: Nov. 7 8-10 am, 2-5 pm. Come by any time during office hours, or call or email me to ask • Final Exam (comprehensive): questions or schedule an appointment. Mon., Dec. 12, 1 – 3:00 pm Class meeting time and place: Miller Science Building, Room 330; Lecture: MW 1-1:50 Tests 1 and 2 will be given outside of the lecture pm; Lab: Monday 2:30-5 pm. time slot.

Most of the following topics will be covered, though TEXT: Geology Applied to Engineering, the order and depth of coverage may vary: Terry West, Waveland Press Inc, 2010. TOPIC & Text Chpt. ~ % of time OBJECTIVE: Engineering geology is a multidisciplinary field that combines geology Earth Birth, Plate (1) 10 % and engineering. Geologic data and principles (2) 5 % are used with engineering principals and Rocks (3, 4, 5) 10 % techniques in order to study and work with Engin. Properties of Rocks (6) 10 % and soil surficial materials and ground Soils (7, 8) 5 % water. This is essential for the proper location, Strat & Geo Time (9) 5 % planning, design, construction, operation and Structural Geo (10) 10 % maintenance of engineered structures. Rivers / Glaciers (11, 12) 5 % Engineering geology complements Physiographic Provinces (13) 5 % and . (14) 5 % (15) 5 % GRADES: Coastal Processes (16) 5 % • LAB (40%) Deserts (17) 5 % • LECTURE (60%): Two 1-hour exams and a (18) 5 % Final exam. Subsurface Investigations (19) 5 % • Test 1 lecture: 18 % Engin. Geol & Environ. Geol (20) 5 % • Test 2 lecture: 18 % • Final Exam lecture: 22 % Make-up exams are given only for documented • Atten. & Participation: 2 % excused absences. See me immediately if you • TOTAL: 60 % miss a test! consider lecture attendance mandatory, and TEXT READING: Please read assigned will take your attendance into account when sections from the textbook before coming to evaluating your grade at the end of the class. You are not responsible for everything semester. In fact, attendance and participation in the text, but I want you to assimilate the in class counts for 2% of your grade. main points; therefore, I may ask some test Regarding attendance, I have questions that come directly from the book. occasionally heard this ‘logic’ expressed: Most test questions, however, will come from “Why should I come to class if I can get the the lecture. Reading the textbook will improve lecture notes from someone else?” There are your understanding of everything presented in important reasons why you should always the lecture. The textbook covers topics in come to class. If you don’t attend class, you much greater detail than I am able to do in the miss the context in which the material was limited amount of time we have in lecture. presented. You don’t hear the professor’s spo- ken comments about the material. Students EXAMS: Each exam will always include a who were in class will remember that multiple-choice section. Therefore, always information, but someone who just copies the bring a 50 questions scantron (Form 882) to notes misses all of that. each test. Other sections may include: The result is that when you skip a class, matching; true/false questions; calculations; you are inevitably lowering your own grade. short answers; fill in the blanks; and/or short essay questions. The final exam will be If you have missed a class and have an ex- comprehensive. cused absence or a valid reason for missing, tell me about it after class on the next class LAB: The lab will use handouts that will be day and I may excuse the absence! provided.

** IMPORTANT: If you accumulate more Tentative LAB SCHEDULE: • Lab 1: Maps than 4 unexcused lecture absences, your • Lab 2: Minerals grade may be lowered to the next lower • Lab 3: Ign. Rocks grade (example: a C might become a D). • Lab 4: Sed. Rocks Also, if you have more than 2 absences, then • Lab 5: Meta. Rocks you start to loose part of the 2% of your grade • Lab 6: Engin. Properties of Rocks listed as “Attendance”. If you have several • Lab 7: Soils 1 absences, you loose all of that 2%. • Lab 8: Soils 2 • Lab 9: TARDINESS. If you come late to class it is • Lab 10: Running Water disruptive to the professor and to your • Lab 11: Landslides classmates. Therefore, please do not be late. • Lab 12: Groundwater This means you need to anticipate the usual • Lab 13: Earthquakes parking problems that are part of life at SFA (and most other universities). Note: Two Note: There will be no lab during the week of tardies count as one absence! Thanksgiving INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS. Most of ATTENDANCE. In the classroom I will pre- what I want you to know will be presented sent a significant amount of material that is during classroom lectures. Please feel free to not in the textbook, and since the tests will be ask questions at any time. I like questions be- primarily over the lecture material, it is very important to attend all lectures. Therefore, I cause they stimulate discussion and help clar- ify concepts for everyone. Academic Integrity (A-9.1) Academic integrity is a responsibility of all university faculty and students. Faculty members promote academic ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Laptops or other integrity in multiple ways including instruction on the computers, cell phones, iPods, iPads, cameras, components of academic honesty, as well as abiding by camcorders, Blackberries, and all other elec- university policy on penalties for cheating and plagiarism. tronic devices CANNOT BE USED DURING LECTURE OR LAB and must be turned off Definition of Academic Dishonesty Academic dishonesty includes both cheating and plagia- and put away. This is because we have had rism. Cheating includes but is not limited to (1) using or problems with students surfing the web, attempting to use unauthorized materials to aid in achiev- texting, facebooking, emailing, playing gam- ing a better grade on a component of a class; (2) the falsi- es, listening to music, etc., during class time! fication or invention of any information, including cita- tions, on an assigned exercise; and/or (3) helping or at- tempting to help another in an act of cheating or plagia- Of course, all electronic devices must be rism. Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of an- turned off and put away during tests. Failure other person as if they were your own. Examples of pla- to observe this rule may result in an F for a giarism are (1) submitting an assignment as if it were test! one's own work when, in fact, it is at least partly the work of another; (2) submitting a work that has been purchased or otherwise obtained from an Internet source or another source; and (3) incorporating the words or ideas of an author into one's paper without giving the author due credit.

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Withheld Grades Semester Grades Policy (A-54) COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY POLICIES: Ordinarily, at the discretion of the instructor of record and

with the approval of the academic chair/director, a grade DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR. A studious atmosphere of WH will be assigned only if the student cannot com- must be maintained in the classroom so that everyone can plete the course work because of unavoidable circum- concentrate on the material being presented. Disruptive stances. Students must complete the work within one cal- behavior, including but not limited to, whispering and endar year from the end of the semester in which they re- talking, repeatedly making noises, using electronic de- ceive a WH, or the grade automatically becomes an F. If vices such as cell phones, will not be tolerated if it dis- students register for the same course in future terms the turbs your classmates or the professor. Here is the univer- WH will automatically become an F and will be counted sity’s statement on: as a repeated course for the purpose of computing the

grade point average. “Acceptable Student Behavior” Classroom behavior

should not interfere with the instructor’s ability to The circumstances precipitating the request must have oc- conduct the class or the ability of other students to curred after the last day in which a student could with- learn from the instructional program (see the Student draw from a course. Students requesting a WH must be Conduct Code, policy D-34.1). Unacceptable or dis- passing the course with a minimum projected grade of C. ruptive behavior will not be tolerated. Students who

disrupt the learning environment may be asked to Students with Disabilities leave class and may be subject to judicial, academic or To obtain disability related accommodations, alternate other penalties. This prohibition applies to all instruc- formats and/or auxiliary aids, students with disabilities tional forums, including electronic, classroom, labs, must contact the Office of Disability Services (ODS), discussion groups, field trips, etc. The instructor shall Human Services Building, and Room 325, 468-3004 / have full discretion over what behavior is appropriate / 468-1004 (TDD) as early as possible in the semester. inappropriate in the classroom. Students who do not Once verified, ODS will notify the course instructor and attend class regularly or who perform poorly on class outline the accommodation and/or auxiliary aids to be projects/exams may be referred to the Early Alert provided. Failure to request services in a timely manner Program. This program provides students with rec- may delay your accommodations. For additional informa- ommendations for resources or other assistance that is tion, go to http://www.sfasu.edu/disabilityservices/. available to help SFA students succeed. Goals for Knowledge – at the end of this course you should: 1. be able to converse with a /geophysicist (entire course) 2. be able to read geologic/geophysical reports ======(entire course) Pedagogical Objectives for Engineering Geology: 3. know basic rock and soil types and the properties of these rocks/soils that an engineer may be Number of Credit Hours: Three concerned with (chapters 2-7) Course Prerequisites and/or Corequisites: GOL 131 4. understand surface geologic processes and how they affect engineering studies (chapters 8-9, 11, Course Objective 14-15) The objective of this course is to teach students the 5. understand internal geologic processes (e.g. principles and applications of . faults, earthquakes, volcanoes) and how they affect engineering studies (chapters 10, 18) Student Learning Outcomes: 6. know how is used in engineering site investigation (chapter 18)