SSCH

Data from UA Institutional Research and Assessment

Graph 1: Geoscience department total student semester credit hours (SSCH) over trailing 10 year period. This represents the number of teaching hours by GEOS faculty, instructors, adjuncts, etc. for full academic years. It is strongly influenced by low-level, high enrollment courses like General Geology and Human Geography. For example, if GEOS teaches General Geology lecture/lab (4 hrs) with 600 students, this would add 4 x 600 = 2400 SSCH to the GEOS total. In the long run, GEOS teaching assistantship count assigned by the College responds to SSCH numbers.

Graph 2: Fulbright College SSCH numbers by department over the same period.

2017 Geoscience Careers Course

Careers class in fall semester, Thursdays 7-8 pm, evolving schedule of guests below.

For those wanting to coordinate with (or avoid) home football games, here is the football schedule. Course flyer is shown below.

Enrollment Update 2017

1. All data from UA Institutional Research and Assessment

2. Special thanks to UA Chancellor Joe Steinmetz who worked to get in-state tuition for all summer field camp participants starting in summer 2018 (see last graph).

Historical Faculty Timeline

Historical faculty timeline for geology and geography at the University of Arkansas. Some highlights include the first geology professor in 1873 (T. L. Thompson), establishment of geography department (1948), the time of four geology chairmen in four years (1952-5), merger of geology and geography in to geoscience (2000), and establishment of an external geoscience advisory board (2006).

Faculty Teaching Schedule Fall 2017

GEOS Course Notes Fall 2017

GEOS 4-year course plan

The figure below captures what we teach in a graphical form. Faculty initials are in ach class box, except the orange -filled boxes taught by instructors. Such a graphic will help students understand multi-year course offerings, faculty plan alternate year courses (such as mine shown projected forward) and course coverage for sabbatical leaves and faculty hires. Alumni and advisory board members may also want a quick, yet comprehensive, way to understand what we teach.

Information through Fall 2016 comes from the UArk schedule of classes (web site). Course descriptions can be found online (undergraduate, graduate). Degree requirements and 4-yr worksheets can be found here.

Any comments and errors of fact or omission are welcome to liner@uark.edu

Current status of the 4-yr plan is the image below. Maybe too small to read in a browser, but you can right-click to download the full resolution image.

GEOS Organizational Chart

Tenured and tenure-track faculty and staff

Other faculty and support. Not enough room here to indicate specialties, but see wordle below.

This is what we teach and research.

Enrollment Update 2016

All data from UA Institutional Research and Assessment

Faculty Teaching Schedule Spring 2017

PhD Online Resources

1. Graduate catalog PhD Requirements 
2. GEOS PhD Requirements
1. GEOS Graduate Student Handbook
1. Comprehensive exam and dissertation proposal info found here