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GEOS-1034: Earths Natural Hazards

Description: Fundamentals of Earth processes that drive natural hazards, including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, climate change and impacts with space objects; impacts of human activities on the Earth; defining and analyzing hazards and risks through testing hypotheses on geologic data; ethical issues arising from hazard mitigation; analysis of uncertainties of scientific information.

Pathways: 4 Reasoning in Natural Sci., 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: GEOS-4184

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 30

Average GPA: 3.22 (rounds to B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 44.01%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.28%

Neil E Johnson202418.1%43.6%28.1%5.8%2.2%2.3%2.7012
Ying Zhou202470.1%21.3%5.7%1.3%0.9%0.6%3.5911
Michael J Willis202432.8%53.0%11.7%1.0%0.0%1.5%3.212
D S Stamps202175.8%16.6%6.2%0.8%0.4%0.1%3.675

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2019Fall 2019Spring 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W