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Course Description:An introduction to the geography of Mars. The course will cover the history of Mars exploration, review remote sensing fundamentals and data sources about Mars, and the planet's basic characteristics. The course then provides a physical regionalization of the Martian surface and underlying tectonic and geomorphic processes, as well as a treatment of the climatic regionalization of the planet. The course will review Mars' history as a screen for human fantasy, consider the possibilities of human settlement there, and the ramifications of Apollo II. Three hours of seminar and, for those students needing 4 units of geospatial techniques credit and who sign up for the companion GEOG 497-03, there will be an additional two hours of remote-sensing based laboratory activities. Prerequisites: GEOG 140 or GEOL 102 and upper-division or graduate status.
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Grading:I grade on a modified curve based on the following assessments:
Makeup Policy:Makeups are possible in the event of a documented unexpected emergency in a student's life or through prior arrangement with the instructor when the student has advance knowledge of a compelling conflict in schedule, including jury duty or other governmental obligation; death, injury, or serious illness in the family; certain University sanctioned activities; or religious obligations and observances. Makeups under these circumstances will not be penalized. Scheduling a plane flight before the final is not a compelling conflict in schedule and will be penalized. All other makeup requests are subject to denial or serious penalty. |
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Accessibility:It is the student's responsibility to let me know at the beginning of the semester if s/he has a disability that may require accommodation. I am personally committed to making my classes accessible and providing accommodations that will help everyone have the same chance at success. I need to know about the issue at the beginning of the semester, though, so that we can work out a mutually reasonable and satisfying accommodation. For more information on campus support services for disabled students, please check out http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/students2/dss.
Withdrawal Policy:It is the student's responsibility to withdraw from classes. Instructors have no obligation to withdraw students who do not attend classes and, because of the bureaucratic difficulty involved, generally choose not to do so. This often catches transfer students by surprise, because community colleges require instructors to drop non-attending students and provide easy and routine mechanisms for them to do so. If you've been "spoiled" by that system, please be aware that it doesn't work that way here.The deadline to withdraw from a class without a "W" showing up on your transcript is 11 February. You can withdraw until 10 p.m. that night through My CSULB or IVR. You can withdraw later, until 27 April, but you'll have a "W" show up on your transcript. From 27 April to 18 May, you can only withdraw for a documented serious and compelling emergency, with the approval of the dean's office, which expects that you are dropping all of your classes because of the seriousness of the emergency. Note: "I'm not doing well in this class, so I have to drop it" is not regarded as a serious and compelling emergency. Here are the various deadlines for Spring 2007: http://www.csulb.edu/depts/enrollment/dates/registration.html
Cheating and Plagiarism Policy:Written work that you hand in is assumed to be original unless your source material is documented appropriately. Using the ideas or words of another person, even a peer, or a web site, as if it were your own, is plagiarism. Simply changing the wording around so that it's not a direct quotation is still plagiarism if you don't give credit to the source of the ideas. If you use the exact wording of your source, enclose the statement in quotation marks or (with longer quotations) indent and single space it and then cite the source and page. When in doubt, cite. Cheating and plagiarism are serious academic offenses: They represent intellectual theft. Students should read the section on cheating and plagiarism in the CSULB catalogue, which can be accessed at http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/aa/catalog/06-07/information/index.html.Furthermore, students should be aware that faculty members have a range of academic actions available to them in cases of cheating and plagiarism. At a minimum, I will fail a student cheating or plagiarizing on a particular assignment, but only if I think that there was some misunderstanding about what these offenses are; if I feel that the decision to cheat or plagiarize was intentional, I will fail a student in the course. I also may then refer the student to Judicial Affairs for possible probation, suspension, or dismissal. When in doubt, please ask me if you think you're getting into a grey area. To learn a little more about plagiarism, take a look at this workshop on ethics in science that several faculty put together: The second section is about plagiarism. https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/geography/gdep/ethics.html. |
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