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Inside Your the average student? page 5 BC budget • page 3 Environmental issue ·page 6-7 Athletic awards • page 11 The DC Geology departmen by Holly Keyes he geology departmenc at Douglas College Douglas College is working in conjunction with · rollege to Douglas just because is getting ready ro rock and roll. Okay, the biology department at UBC to grant credit for geology courses being offered. The hideously bad jokes aside, there are some a third year historical biology or evolution course. college doesn't offer enough geology for and exciting courses being offered in the This credit would apply to a biology degree at the student and the DC .program can give dep~ment. Upper level geology courses are UBC but not a geology degree. hc:t (he nm two years of her degtee. being offered .in open enrollmenr to contribute Both the paleontolgy and stratigraphy courses A,.~efi9ite ~4vantage . ~p;tt .. the cpllege has an associate degree in sciences or for will be taught by Dr. Micheal Wilson, a ove; the {uuversities iS tlia! ilie classes are to One of the 1miversities. The Universiry of geoarchaoelogist who has taught geology, geogra comparatively very small, ~t~h~lows for more Columbia and the Universicy ofVictoria's phy and archeology at the Universicy of Calgary, one-on-orie contact between thet~achers and the Canada and Ocean Sciences departments and the the Universiry oflethbridge and, most recendy, at . students. This facilitares more q_J;;tions asked by can hardly keep Science department at Simon Fraser SFU. rhe students and a. deeper undet~ding of the up with the material. .·.··.·. · tver·.<i t-;r ·all accepr the Douglas College geology The new courses are modeled after the SFU demand from for transfer. curriculum so rransfer credit there is easily granted. Other related nm•O'r~. m• industry. There are Geology-Earth Science program is a two There will be prerequisites for the new courses: Life only about 500 bachelor selection of courSes distributed over three years Through Time requires Geology 120 (Introduction degrees granted in geology aUow ~tudent~ to flU in other required courses to Geology) or 121 (Historical Geology) and highly each year in Canada and the as math, chemistry and physics. Des Wilson, recommends Biology 110, and Ancient Environ demand for these students is of the Science and Technology Department, ments requires either Geology 120 or 121. increasing. that many $t1.1dent$ take geology to round out Other courses required for an associate degree in Exploration and developmental rimerables and discover that they enjoy the science are the basic science courses: biology 110 activicy is increasing, particularl y in the oil and gas and want to take further courses, but that and 210, chemistry 110 and 210, math 120 and fields in the private sector, but unfortunately the don't have the required courses to transfer to 220, physics 107 and 207 or 110 and 210 and two provincial government cut back on the energy and With this new program, students can English courses. Other suggested electives are resource department by 20% in the latest budget. their first two years at Douglas College and Science 100 (Environmental Issues), Science 107 ' Students can still find summer jobs with private co complete a traditional degree. (Introduction to Environmental Science) and companies such as Cominco, Placer Dome and Shell courses offered this year were Mineralogy Geography 220 (geomorphology) phy is the chance·to Oil. The Solid Earth, the fuse of which was enrolled The lower level courses will probably be offered hours and learn sornethm1g After graduation, entry level jobs for geoscientists Unfortunately, The Solid Earth, the at both the David Lam and New Westminster area from aboard a big start at around $53,000 and can involve extensive of rocks, was underenrolled, but what we lack campuses, but due to the lack of lab facilities and the opportunicy tO travel across the country, to the United States , n.umh,,..., we make up for in enthusiasm and hard teaching space in Coquiclam, the upper level fiddwork and overseas or on the seas on drilling rigs such as These courses will be offered again in two courses will only be offered in New West. exciting summer jobs . Hibernia. and haven't been offered since 1989. Hope The system now in place offers an open lab for hiking and flying atvmu~ : m .na•'i<vll''"'',, With the new Forest Practices Code in effect, more students will get hooked on geology and the students to work at their own pace and on their only a few courses. ... many geoscientists are required to perform slope the courses offered in the fall, Environmental own time, after lectures and srructured lab classes. Some other stud~ts t;lk(! S.~?l9gy for different stability studies, terrain analyses, biological invento Hazards and Geology 420, Life This open lab system encourages teamwork and the reasons--one scudenct®k lhttbduction to ries and habitat studies before the geoenginee rs can Time (Paleontology). In the winter sharing of knowledge with students helping each Geology this semester because he.was doing a stan to plan and map the access roads fo r logging. the course Geology 320, Ancient other- necessary because of the lack of a teaching cerarni~ gluing pmgramat fD ~co llege and a With all these studies being done, many new jobs are (stratigraphy and sedimentology) assistant in the lab. The open labs work well for knowledge of rocks and ffiineralshelps with the opening up for geoscientists. be offered. busy scudems but securicy is becoming a bigger glazing techniques. In .the !le¥ fu .(~re , many older There are many fi elds that a student of geology department hliS applied for transfer credit at problem. At the beginning of the semester a ·· . geo$ci~.ntis~pill tetlre and the jop market will can go into--paleontology, volcanism, earthquakes universiries in BC. At UBC a second year television was stolen from the lab jn New West and · open up fur y6ung sdentistsofqr~eve ral years, and desertifi cation, to name only a few. Geology is eorlrol•oevcourse (which would be the equiva recently a glass display case was broken. few people were getting involved. ijl geology an exci ting career choice and DC can offer an to Life Through Time) doesn't exist, so At least one student is transferring from another because there were few job ... · · ·· but now excellent beginning to an adventurous life. the* &~erVolume 22 · I ssue 23Press •A prr il 1998 Room 1020-700 Royal Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 [email protected] Phone 525.3542 f;\E. Fax 527.5095 or 525.3505 David lAm Offiu Room A3107 Phone 527.5805 Prm lx Otlxr is Douglas __(50;1 Colloge's autonomous student T newspaper. We've been publishing sina: 1976. The SA.vc1~ D:u~~f!R.lo Other Press is run as an anarcho-syndicalist Aff:. R:x<- S commune. 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