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

GEOS Enrollment 2006-16

Fall GEOS enrollments for 2006-16

Data source here

GEOS Student/Faculty Ratios

These graphs relate to graduate student advising. The big picture is that faculty have three kinds of advising loads: (1) honors, (2) Masters and (3) PhD. 

Figure 1. Number of graduate students per faculty member. An important graph that shows the average number of graduate students each faculty member must advise to avoid stranding students without an advisor.

Figure 2. Environmental Dynamics (ENDY) PhD graduate students with GEOS advisor.

Figure 3. Ten year GEOS undergraduate-student/faculty ratio. 

Figure 4. Ten year history of GEOS faculty head count broken down into geology and geography.