使命宣言

The 地质 Department is a place of active inquiry and intellectual exploration for faculty and students who are engaged in academic courses and original re搜索 in Earth Sciences. We use 科罗拉多大学's flexible Block Plan schedule to teach distinctive courses that extensively utilize the natural laboratory of the Rocky Mountain West and learning in the field to engage students in observing natural systems, 理解地质时间和地理空间概念, 研究使地球成为一个复杂而动态的系统的过程, 解决地质问题.

课程目标

The 地质 Department serves geology majors and CC students who opt to include geoscience perspectives in their liberal arts education through the implementation of the following goals:

目标一: 建立扎实的基础知识 地质学的基本原理, in order to impart an understanding of geologic time scales and spatial concepts and bring insight into the Earth as a complex and dynamic system.

目标二: 提供科学体验 that train students in observing natural systems and apply such observations towards building an understanding of the Earth.

目标三:将地球科学的观点带入学生的生活.

目标四: 培养地质学专业的学生成为地球科学家.

目标五: 有助于实现文科教育的目标.

我们如何做到这一点?   

The 地质 Department at 科罗拉多大学 offers introductory and advanced courses in earth sciences that may lead to a B.A. 在地质. 我们有一半的教师教环境专业, 还有地质学, and all of the professors enthusiastically offer cross-disciplinary and General Education courses on a variety of topics. 除了, we enjoy the chance to collaborate with CC students on independent study/re搜索 projects that involve primary investigation in Earth Sciences.

土地确认

The 地质 Department acknowledges that our educational programs are carried out in the homelands of the Ute and other Native peoples and rely on networks of travel paths developed by these peoples.  We also acknowledge that 科罗拉多大学 and our department were founded upon 实践 of resource extraction and land appropriation that dishonored and diminished the traditional lifeways in this region.  这些做法使土著居民流离失所, 景观退化, 导致了财富的不平等分配, 健康, 和落基山脉西部的机遇.  Yet the Ute and Native populations are living people with a present and a future as well as a past, and we strive to learn from their knowledge of earth systems to create a more inclusive field of study while seeking to redress the exclusions and erasures they have endured.

2021年反种族主义承诺

我们致力于学习, 听, 并努力成为一个反种族主义的部门和项目, in order to offer a welcoming place of study and home department for students of all backgrounds and identities. We acknowledge that a culture of racism often works unconsciously in our thoughts, 行动, 和词(希尔), 2008), and that without an active awareness of racism we as educators and learners may inflict harm.  我们认识到，美国的组成多样性.S. population as a whole is not represented among students and professionals in STEM fields, 这种差异在地质科学中更为明显. 解决这一限制将加强地球科学.

在CC地质系内, we are working to: 1) be engaged and actively aware of racism both in academia and everyday life, 2)反对种族主义言论和行为, 3)采取集体行动来改变, 变换, 或者扩充部门政策, 实践, 以及包容和公平的政策. 我们参加了联邦政府资助的一学期的URGE项目 地球科学反种族主义教育工作坊, that guides our creation of Departmental policies and 行动 that will form our own antiracist framework, which in turn helps to achieve the College’s mission to become antiracist. 

引用作品:Hill, Jane H. 2008. 《白人种族主义的日常语言. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

The 地质 major curriculum is designed to provide a foundation for a professional career in the earth sciences, 为研究生院提供背景资料, 这是许多职业的先决条件吗, and provide an opportunity for CC students from other majors to combine their focus discipline with geology and educate students about the physical environment and humans’ place in it, 作为文科教育的一部分.