Jeffrey B. Noblett

Associate Dean of the Faculty

Teaching - Courses

GY100 Geology Courses (non-majors):

• Physical Geology (field-based course): Course Expectations/ Syllabus
• Ethnogeology (interactions between geology and ethnic minorities): Overview/Syllabus
• Environmental Geology,
• Catastrophic Geology
• Colorado Field Geology,
• Language of the Earth, (emphasis on writing)
• Geology and Society, (emphasis on writing)
• Living with the Earth, (emphasis on writing)

Introductory Geology:teach field‑based physical/historical intro,Syllabus, Overview

• Also taught from Earth-Systems Science perspective,
• Also taught with feminist approach, since 1987.

• Introduction to Geology in the Rockies Institute (Summer Session)
• Geology of the Pikes Peak Region, summer, Course Overview/ Syllabus
• First-Year-Experience: Earth Systems Science: Patterns and Perspectives Overview/Syllabus
• Earthquakes and Volcanoes (half-block)
• Geology of Asia, Overview

• Introduction to Petrology (a survey of petrology within the framework of an Island Arc), Island Arc Project
• Igneous Petrology: developed field and microscope based course
• Metamorphic Petrology: developed field and microscope based course
• Geophysics (emphasis on use of gravity, seismic. magnetic, electrical instruments)

• Earth Systems Science Syllabus
• Plate Tectonics
• Topographic Map and Aerial Photograph Interpretation

Regional Geology (senior field studies) in:

• Death Valley,
• Big Bend, Texas,
• Northern Minnesota/Michigan,
• South-central Arizona
• Japan

Gender and Science (Women's Studies program):

Daily Schedule Ecofeminism (Women's Studies program): Overview/Syllabus

Aikido: a Japanese martial art designed to resolve conflict non-violently (adjunct course)

Reiki:

• available to students interested in energy healing (non-credit)
• Nearly 500 people taught in Reiki 1 classes, 30 Reiki masters taught Shield classes: traditional Hopi-based medicine classes in four directions (non-credit)

Independent Studies: Have supervised numerous independent studies, senior seminars, master's research papers, and senior honors theses; advised master's thesis in Wet Mountains; also LAS theses on Asian Studies and Environmental Studies