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GE 5185 (MTU Course number)
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This was a unique class, with a diversity of lectures and readings from many sources,
meant to make the class cover a wide range of advanced topics, where there is little
conventional wisdom from textbooks. The Class met for discussion each Wednesday
at 4-530 pm in 211 Dow, beginning Jan 11. Discussions were held online, with students
from other universities. The EHaz universities (Michigan Tech, Buffalo, McGill, UNAM
and Colima) were the main participants, but lectures will came from many other sources.
There were guest lectures every week delivered via PowerPoint files with narration or
notes. Then the speaker joined the web discussions on Wednesday pm, to allow for
questions and discussion. Each student received the PowerPoint lectures before the
discussion, and reviewed them at their own convenience. The PowerPoint was online
for the discussion to allow referring to figure material. The software used for teleconference
discussions is Marratech, and Michigan Tech arranged for a web home connection for our
class. Marratech can be accessed from any computer linked to the web and is designed
for discussions online.
A tentative outline of the class topics follows with a progression from the deep earth to the surface.
A rough time schedule is added:
Each week
the students will read one article, absorb one lecture and
participate in one discussion. Students also have an obligation
to prepare for the upcoming caldera field trip, this coming
May-June. These assignments will come in discussions. The local
manager of this class is Karinne Knutsen (klknutse@mtu.edu).She
will manage the web page and post the .pdf and .ppt files for
downloading by participants. If you have technical issues
getting Marratech to work, see
this link.
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Bill
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John
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Michigan Tech Univ |
McGill
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