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Intro Lecture A
Soils Week 1
Activities this first Week:
1) Lecture- Intro Lecture A
-The Course and Friday Intro
Lecture B -What is soil?
2) No Lab This Week
3) Practice Team Exams in
Recitation on Thursday
4) Laboratory in 243 Borlaug
Lab 1, will start next Monday,
Lab Report checked by TA
Lab times M 10:30-4:30, T
9:00AM-5 PM, Wed 10:30-6
Course Information:
Syllabus- Class schedule
Lecture-, Exams- Web
Exam. Team Exams
Final Exam
Land Use Project Develop
the land use according to
the soils for a square mile
(640 acres).
Soil of the week- 10
different soils of
Minnesota on Web Pages
Class Resources
Class Participation
Class participation required.
Come to class prepared for
team exams
Being unprepared is as bad as
missing class.
Missing class, being late, not
completing work, or late work
will play a role in determining
your course grade.
Remember Lecture Counts
Late Work=Make-up Team
Exams = 90% of in class
exams. Late Web exams not
accepted. If you are ill Bring note from Health
Center for make ups.
Lecture Dyads=5%
Team Exams= 20 %
Lecture Exams (4) =15%
Web Exams 20%
Lab Assignments=10%
Land Use Project=20%
Final Exam=10%
Course Grades: Course grades will
be determined using a curve of A>
89%, B>79%, C> 69%, D> 59%.
Final Course grades will use the +
and - system of grading. The class
average is expected to be 76%(C+)
The Professor
I have been teaching beginning soils
since 1975
I coach the soil judging team and teach
the field study of soils May session and
fall semester
I teach Problem Solving,
Environmental Review, and Soil
Geography spring semester.
I Advise ESPM Undergrads
Prior to arriving in Minnesota I taught
soils in California for 5 years and spent
two years in the USMC. I graduated
from Michigan State University
In my spare time I golf, fish, camp, and
look at road cuts!
NEVER SAY D_ _ T.
substitute soil
every time that
word almost pops
out of your mouth -