G105 Information and Course Syllabus



Instructor

Joseph H. Hartman


Contact Information

Office: 204 Leonard Hall, phone 777-5055, e-mail: joseph_hartman@und.nodak.edu



Fall 0f 2002


Call number

12483

Class is held

November 12 to December 12

Class meets in

109 Leonard Hall

Class meets at

11:00-11:50 a.m., Tuesday and Thursday

Office hours

10:00-10:50 a.m., Tuesday and Thursday and by Arrangement (feel free)

Required course textbook

Gould, S.J., ed., 2001, The Book of Life: New York, NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 256 p., ISBN 0-393-32156-8 pbk.

Reserved reading

Zieglar, B., 1983, Introduction to Palaeobiology -- General Palaeontology: Chichester and New York, Ellis Horwood Limited and Halsted Press, 224 p.



Lecture Schedule for 2002 UND Fall Semester



Day
Lc#
Date
Topic / Reading
Tue 1 11/12 Fundamentals about Earth and life, evolution and extinction
Reading: A flawed work in progress, p. 1-5
Reading: Recontructing (and deconstructing) the past, p. 6-21
Thur 2 11/14 Understanding geologic time
Reading: Life and time, p. 22-36
Tue 3 11/19 Origins, evolutions, and terra forming
Reading: Foundations: Life in the oceans, p. 27-64
Thur 4 11/21 Perserving life as fossils
Reserved reading (Geology Library): Fossilization (Zieglar, 1983, Ch. 2)
Tue 5 11/26 Invasion of the land - Major trends in vertabrate evolution and mass extinctions
Reading: Four feet on the ground, p. 78-125
Take-home Test - Due at beginning of class
Thur -- 11/28 Thanksgiving (no class)
Tue 7 12/03 Mezezoic vertabrate evolution and mass extinction
Reading: Dinosaur summer, p. 126-167
Take-home Test - Due at beginning of class
Thur 8 12/05 Mammalian evolution and extinctions
Reading: Victors by default, p. 168-217
Tue 9 12/10 Primate evolution
Reading: The primates' progress, p. 218-251
Thur 10 12/12 Pleistocene extinctions - Human induced?
Reading: Select two readings on our own and provide me complete citations.
Turn in: Write pro and con arguments concerning human involvment in large mammal pleistocene extinctions
Wed -- 12/18
Final Exam (open book - open notes), 1:00p.m., 109 Leonard Hall