GEOL 3030 meets the University of Georgia's Environmental Literacy Requirement.
There are no prerequisites, so this course is open to all students.
The purpose of the course is to survey all the aspects of oceanography with the goal of seeing the interactions of ocean circulation, biology, geology, and chemistry in one linked system. The formal and official course description is:
Basic aspects of oceanography: ocean basins and plate tectonics, shallow and deep ocean circulation, waves and tides, marine biology and ecology, marine sediments, chemistry of seawater, paleoceanography, and environmental oceanography.
You can look at a pdf of the syllabus for 2019.
There are no prerequisites, so this course is open to all students. Art majors, history majors, business majors, exercise science majors, and natural science majors have all taken this course and done well:
You can read the Spring 2014 course evaluations.
YEAR | Enrollment | As | Bs | Cs | Ds | Fs | Ws & Is | % As & Bs | GPA for all students |
GPA for students who took final exam |
1990 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 77% | - | |
1991 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 75% | - | |
1992 | 19 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 67% | - | |
1993 | 34 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 1b | 0 | 62% | - | |
1994 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1b | 2 | 73% | - | |
1995 | 25 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1b | 3 | 86% | - | |
1996 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82% | - | |
1997 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1b | 3 | 82% | - | |
1998 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1b | 2 | 73% | - | |
1999 | 26 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1c | 0 | 69% | - | |
2000 | 61 | 14 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 4d | 5 | 61% | - | |
2001 | 61 | 13 | 22 | 18 | 1 | 1b | 6 | 64% | - | |
2002 | 61 | 12 | 23 | 18 | 4 | 3e | 1 | 58% | - | |
2003 | 60 | 9 | 31 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 77% | 2.87 | 2.87 |
2004 | 59 | 12 | 29 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 71% | 2.88 | 2.88 |
2005 | 57 | 13 | 33 | 4 | 3 | 2f | 2 | 84% | 2.95 | 3.00 |
2006 | 61 | 15 | 25 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 75% | 3.00 | 3.00 |
2007 | 59 | 14 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 2g | 10 | 69% | 2.80 | 2.92 |
2008 | 62 | 11 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 3h | 7 | 75% | 2.76 | 2.92 |
2009 | 65 | 11 | 26 | 13 | 3 | 2j | 10 | 67% | 2.75 | 2.85 |
2010 | 64 | 15 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 3k | 10 | 67% | 2.80 | 2.96 |
2011 | 41 | 9 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3m | 3 | 71% | 2.81 | 3.05 |
2012 | 47 | 13 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 2n | 0 | 71% | 3.07 | 3.21 |
2013 | 28 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 93% | 3.30 | 3.30 |
2014 | 37 | 13 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 2p | 0 | 84% | 3.08 | 3.26 |
2015 | 34 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 1b | 1 | 88% | 3.17 | 3.27 |
2016 | 35 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 78% | 3.23 | 3.23 |
2017 | 32 | 12 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ? | 97% | 3.34 | 3.34 |
2018 | 21 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ? | 100% | 3.30 | 3.30 |
2019 | 29 | 9 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1q | ? | 97% | 3.30 | 3.30 |
2020 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1r | 7 | 94% | 3.37 | 3.58 |
2021 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1s | 0 | 7 | 94% | 3.37 | 3.58 | YEAR | Enrollment | As | Bs | Cs | Ds | Fs | Ws & Is | % As & Bs | GPA for all students |
GPA for students who took final exam |
GEOL 3030 will be offered in Spring Semester 2022 on a MWF schedule in Room 200A GG. The instructor will be Professor Bruce Railsback , a past winner the Department of Geology's Teacher of the Year Award and six-time winner of the Department's Professor of the Year Award. If there is a TA, the TA's participation will be limited to grading of exercises and proctoring of exams. Maximum enrollment will be 60.
For more information, you can reach Dr. Railsback at rlsbk@uga.edu