The courses I am now teaching and have taught regularly in the past several years are listed below. In addition to these courses, I teach a variety of seminar courses, either alone or with other faculty, as the interests of the graduate students dictate. These are usually offered under such titles as Geological Sciences 255, Selected Topics in Structural Geology. A list of the ten distinct courses taught, and undergraduate independent study projects supervised, during my time at Brown is at the page titled Courses Taught.

For each of the three courses regularly taught at present, there is a link to a recent syllabus lower on this page. For Geological Sciences 1, the web page for the course can be reached by clicking here.

Geological Sciences 1 (and University Course 5),  Face of the Earth. This an introductory Physical Geology course for non-science students. It's focus is on enhancing one's appreciation and understanding of the Earth around us as well as on the various environmental issues related to the Earth Sciences to make one a better informed citizen. While the treatment is not quantitative and assumes no prior science background, a careful and rigorous look at a variety of geologic processes is undertaken.

Geological Sciences 145, Structural Geology. This is a first course in Structural Geology intended for Geology Concentrators, and other science and engineering students with an interest in learning more on the subject than is covered in Geological Sciences 22. The course is a rigorous first treatment of the subject, and includes a description of structures caused by deformation, the terminology used to describe them, and an introduction to the mechanics of their origin. Gaining an understanding of the deformation processes responsible for deformation features is emphasized on all scales from the atomic to the global.

Geological Sciences 251, Advanced Structural Geology. This is a Structural Geology course for those who have had an undergraduate Structural Geology course that was primarily descriptive. It assumes students know the names and types of typical geologic structures, but that the course they took may not have included a very rigorous treatment of mechanics or of deformation processes. The content is somewhat tailored to the interests of the students taking the course in any given year.

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