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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - EVR6115
Tracking Number - 5094
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Current Status:
Approved by SCNS - 2015-04-01
Campus: St Petersburg
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: USF-STPT approved 3/17/15. to USF Sys 3/18/15. to SCNS 3/26/15. Nmbr 6921 approved as 6115. Effective 4/1/15
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2014-10-14
- Department: Geography and Environmental Science and Policy
- College: AP
- Budget Account Number: 511224 10000
- Contact Person: Dona J. Stewart
- Phone: 34066
- Email: dstewar6@usfsp.edu
- Prefix: EVR
- Number: 6115
- Full Title: Global Climate Change
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: D -
Discussion (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?: N
- If repeatable, how many times?: 2
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Global Climate Change
- Course Online?: B -
Face-to-face and online (separate sections)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
-
- Prerequisites: NONE
- Corequisites: NONE
- Course Description: This course examines physical processes of global climate change.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for program/concentration/certificate change
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This is a new core course that will support our revised MA degree. The revisions to the MA are being made to meet identified student interest and more accurately reflect current and emerging themes within the discipline.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 2 times
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PhD in appropriate discipline
- Objectives: Examine the physical principles of the global climate, how the global climate has changed in the past, and predicting global climate change. Current literature on global climate change will be included.
- Learning Outcomes: Students will:
Comprehend the physical principles of global climate
Identify how the Earth receives, maintains and distributes energy.
Distinguish the factors in driving past changes in the climate
Analyze current literature related to these topics.
- Major Topics: global climate change
weather and climate
climate variability
atmospheric circulation
ocean circulation
carbon cycle
carbon burial
paleoclimate
- Textbooks: None
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: All course readings are drawn from peer reviewed scientific literature chosen by the students each semester.
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: There will be a midterm and final exam. Final exam will be comprehensive. Students will select and direct discussion on climate change journal articles. Exercises and short reports will be assigned periodically throughout the semester.
Lecture Grade:
Midterm 30%
Final 35%
Discussion 10%
Exercises/Reports 25%
Assignment of Letter Grades:
>90 A
85-89 B+
80-84 B
75-79 C+
70-74 C
65-69 D+
60-64 D
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: There will be a midterm and final exam. Final exam will be comprehensive. Students will select and direct discussion on climate change journal articles. Exercises and short reports will be assigned periodically throughout the semester.
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting – Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation – Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work: Attendance Policy:
You are responsible for everything discussed or shown in the lecture. If you miss a lecture, please get notes from a classmate. Make-up exams will not be given without a well-documented excuse. Please do not arrive late or leave early.
- Program This Course Supports: graduate program Environmental Science and Policy
- Course Concurrence Information: None
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.