QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR GEOSCIENCE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: MATH 222 , graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Utilize an integrated development environment and documentation to solve geoscientific problems. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Interpret code in a high-level programming language to explain what an existing program does. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Organize geologic data and store them using appropriate data structures. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop basic algorithms by using key programming structures including: for-next loops, if-then-else statements, built-in functions, and other custom-built functions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Plan, design and create a useful, well-documented computer program/utility that has general applicability. Audience: Graduate 6. Develop codes that apply appropriate spatio-temporal data analysis routines to geologic datasets. Audience: Graduate 7. Integrate data from several data sources to produce publication-ready maps or other geologically relevant figures. Audience: Graduate 8. Implement quantitative models for geologic processes using appropriate analytical or numerical toolboxes. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Utilize an integrated development environment and documentation to solve geoscientific problems. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Interpret code in a high-level programming language to explain what an existing program does. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Organize geologic data and store them using appropriate data structures. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop basic algorithms by using key programming structures including: for-next loops, if-then-else statements, built-in functions, and other custom-built functions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Plan, design and create a useful, well-documented computer program/utility that has general applicability. Audience: Graduate 6. Develop codes that apply appropriate spatio-temporal data analysis routines to geologic datasets. Audience: Graduate 7. Integrate data from several data sources to produce publication-ready maps or other geologically relevant figures. Audience: Graduate 8. Implement quantitative models for geologic processes using appropriate analytical or numerical toolboxes. Audience: Graduate