Russell O. Colson
Professor of Geology
Department of Anthropology and Earth Science
Minnesota State University Moorhead
Teaching interests:
I believe that science
is not about what we know so much as it is about how we know it.
My goal is to create situations in lab, or on field trips, or address
science
puzzles in lecture in such a way that students can both observe me
solving
science puzzles and engage in the doing of science with me. I
like
to think that students and I do science together.
I try to provide
challenges
for students at many different levels of science understanding. I
want my classes to both stretch students out of their comfort zone, and
still be fun. I also want my classes to give students, not just
"facts"
about geology, but to give them an understanding of how a geologist
reasons
and how we read the stories written in the fabric of creation.
Classes that I teach include the
following:
Geos 102 Geology in the National Parks (syllabus)
Geos 115 Physical Geology (syllabus)
(Final Topic
Review
List)
Geos 116 Historical Geology (syllabus)
Geos 170 Earth Science Today (syllabus)
(Earth
Science Today Class notes)(EST Test
study guide)
Geos 302 Introduction to Mineralogy and
Petrology
(syllabus) (class
notes)
Geos 330 Elementary Meteorology (syllabus) (test
1 study guide)
Geos 340 Economic and Environmental
Geology (syllabus)
Geos 360 Planetary Science (syllabus)
Geos 415 Reading Geochemical Fingerprints (syllabus)
(class notes)
Geos 480 Senior Seminar (syllabus)
Anthropology and Earth
Science
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