Enhance your experience of geologic field mapping by taking the Honors Colloquium for GEO 331. Attend the 3-day New England Intercollegiate Geologic Conference (a 3 day series of fieldtrips in early October) where you get to visit many interesting geologic outcrops and locations with the scientists who have mapped them. See current field projects in progress and learn about the latest ideas for the geologic evolution of New England.

The honors colloquium that accompanies Geosciences 311 is a once-a-week meeting during which a paper about a timely topic in the field of mineralogy is discussed informally. Previous topics discussed during the honors colloquium include medical mineralogy, forensic mineralogy, supervolcano eruptions, mineral toxicity, mass extinction theories, and the illegal diamond trade.

This will be a one credit reading seminar focused on current topics in oceanography and marine science. Students will read one short paper from the current literature (newspapers, magazines, journals) or one book chapter per week. Topics will be chosen to focus particularly on issues of public interest such as global warming, coastal policy, marine ecology, etc. Students must also be enrolled in Geology 103. Seminars will be devoted to discussing the weekly readings and other topics of current interest. Recommended for first-year students and sophomores.

Meets once a week to read and discuss scholarly literature in Political Geography.

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This course provides a critical exploration of the fundamental interrelations among human systems and the natural environment. We take as our focus a handful of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to examine the two-way interplay between environmental factors and issues related to poverty, hunger and food systems, gender equality, urbanization, inequality, and economic and socio-cultural change. The course enables students to consider major challenges related to the environment and sustainability at multiple scales, from the local and regional to the global.

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