Teaching

Wire, wood and stone, Mansfield, CT.

Dr. Robert Thorson generally has full responsibility for three 3-credit university courses per year. His main resonsibilities for teaching are now divided between the Honors Program (where he was appointed as an Honors Fellow in 2005) and the Center for Integrated Geosciences. He also serves on graduate committees as both chair and associate advisors in the fields of geoscience, archaeology, history, and natural resources. He supervises independent studies at all levels.

COURSES

Below is a list of courses taught, beginning with the most recent. For catalog descriptions of these courses, consult the UCONN catalog.

• INTD 170 - Walden: A History (with Robert Gross and Janet Pritchard)
• GEOL 251 - Earth Surface Processes
• SCI 103 - Geoscience Through American Studies
• INTD 198 - Honors Seminar - Walden Rocks, Water, Woods.
• GEOL 103-105 - Earth and Life Through Time
• GEOL 223/323 - Glacial Processes and Materials
• ANTH 305 - Seminar in Geoarchaeology
• GEOL 111 - Age of the Dinosaurs
• GEOL 102 - Introductory Geology
• GEOL 295 - Global Climate Change
• GEOL 101 - Environmental Geology
• GEOL/EEB 205 - Current Issues in Environmental Science(Honors)
• GEOL 305 - Graduate Seminar in Tectonic Geomorphology
• GEOL 220 - Principles of Geomorphology
• GEOL 226 - Quaternary Stratigraphy (geoarchaeology)

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