Table Of ContentGlobal Studies 1B Workbook
Submission Sheet Spring 2011
(ver.2 - 1/27/11)
Student Name (print clearly): ___________________
Workbook is Due in Duncan Hall 222 or
by Mail to Geology Department Office (Duncan 321)
On or Before Tues. May 24 by 5:00 PM
Workbook Submission Sheet
In the Space Below, Provide a Self-Assessment on the Quality of Your Workbook:
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
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Course Workbook Description (100 points possible) – More Instructions on Next Page
Fill out this page prior to submitting Workbook to instructor
Objective: Allow students to synthesize the full body of work in the class and provide
instructor with review of online work to better assess student’s ability to meet learning
outcomes in course.
Date Delivered to Duncan Hall 222 (“BAESI Office”) ______________ or
Date sent via overnight mail _____________ (Must arrive on or before Tues. May 24 by
5:00 PM) – If you send it by mail, you must email shipping confirmation information, so
that I can track shipment.
Course Workbook Gradesheet – Give Yourself an Evaluation
Did you fully complete each of the following Expeditions? In the spaces below, mark a Yes
with a “Y”, No with an “N” or Partially Completed with a “P”
Were all questions answered? Were all diagrams completed?
Exped. 2 ____ Exped. 10 ____ Exped. 18 ____
Exped. 3 ____ Exped. 11 ____ Exped. 19 ____
Exped. 4 ____ Exped. 12 ____ Exped. 20 ____
Exped. 5 ____ Exped. 13 ____ Exped. 21 ____
Exped. 6 ____ Exped. 14 ____ Exped. 22 ____
Exped. 7 ____ Exped. 15 ____ Exped. 23 ____
Exped. 8 ____ Exped. 16 ____ Exped. 24 ____
Exped. 9 ____ Exped. 17 ____ Exped. 25 ____
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Examples of Point Deductions
_____5-10 point deduction for (late) submission after due date and time.
_____5 point deduction for not completing Worksheet Submission sheet (previous page),
including not filling in your name
_____10 point deduction per missing expedition (see required list above)
_____5 point deduction per expedition for more than two to five skipped questions
_____5-9 point deduction per expedition for more than five skipped questions
Course Workbook Instructions – Drop off at SJSU or Send By Overnight Mail
Workbook must be placed through drop slot in door of Duncan Hall 222
(BAESI Office) by Tues. May 24 by 5:00 PM. DO NOT SLIP WORKBOOK
UNDER MY OFFICE DOOR.
If you did not purchase workbook from A.S. Print Shop, then have a large clip or rubber
band holding the stack of expedition worksheets together. Do NOT USE A NOTEBOOK!
Students may also submit by mail, but it must arrive by
Tues. May 24 by 5:00 PM
Overnight Mailing address:
Don Reed
Dept. of Geology
San Jose State University
1 Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0102
Phone: (408-924-5050)
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Table of Contents
Page
Course Workbook Submission Description …………...………………………………………………….…..… 1
Table of Contents ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3
Greensheet ..……………………………………..…………………….………………………………………..………………..….. 5
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY - ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY ………………... 15
Topic Area 1 - Marine Resources and International Policy
Expedition 1 – Introduction to Global Ocean ……….........……………………………..............................…... 21
Expedition 2 – Marine Resources and the Law of the Sea……………….........………………………………... 29
Expedition 3 – Global Ocean Geography …………………………………………………………...……............……...…. 37
Expedition 4 – Case Study: Mapping the Arctic: ……………………………….………...........…………………..… 53
Expedition 5 – High Seas Governance and Global Marine Policy ..(Required Discussion)... 63
Topic Area 2 – Societal Hazards Beneath the Sea
Expedition 6 - Commotion Beneath the Ocean ………….………………………………………….….….. 65
Expedition 7 – Plate Boundaries Beneath the Sea …….…………………………………………...….. 77
Expedition 8- Whole Lotta Shakin Goin' On …….……….…………………………….……………....... 85
Expedition 9 – Tsunami – Past, Present, and Future ………………………………………..……..…. 95
Expedition 10 – NanTroSEIZE in 3-D ..(Required Discussion)..................................... 105
Topic Area 3 - Marine Ecosystems
Expedition 11 - The Briny Deep ……..………………………………….……………………...……………...….. 115
Expedition 12 – Supporting the Marine Ecosystem …………….………………………..……….…… 165
Expedition 13 – Diving into the Mid-Water …………...…………………………………………...…..…. 179
Expedition 14 - Dive and Discover …………………………………………….……….……………..………..... 139
Expedition 15 – Greening of the Ocean (Required Discussion) …………………….….….… 157
Topic Area 4 - Global State of Marine Fisheries
Expedition 16 – Status of Marine Fisheries …………………………………………………….…….…... 163
Expedition 17 – Stock Assessment and Fisheries Science.....…………….………...………..… 171
Expedition 18 – Fisheries Management ………………………………………………………...…..……...…. 175
Expedition 19 – What to Do? …...............………………………………………………………...…………...…. 181
Expedition 20 – The Fishing Game ... (Required Discussion)......................................... 185
Topic Area 5 - Ocean and Global Climate Change
Expedition 21 - Global Circulation ………………………………….……………………….…………..….…….. 195
Expedition 22 – Tracking Drifter Buoys ……..……..…………………………………….….…….……….. 199
Expedition 23 – Ocean – The Climate Engine …..……………………………………..….….…………… 209
Expedition 24 - Where the Water Goes …………………….….………………………………….…….….. 217
Expedition 25 – Course Summary …(Required Discussion) …………………………....…….….. 227
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GLOBAL STUDIES 1B – Science Emphasis
GLST 1B/METR 1B – Section 1
Spring 2011
San José State University
Greensheet – (Ver. 2 – 1/26/11)
Don Reed (yes, I am a doctor, Ph.D., and full professor, but just call
Instructors:
me "Don")
Office Location: 305 Duncan Hall
(408)-924-5036 (not the best way to reach me, use Desire2Learn Mail)
Telephone:
Voicemail will be checked Mon., Wed. and Thurs. - once a day
Video Conference Skype (dreed100) or Video iChat by request; Elluminate
Use Mail within Desire2Learn for all communication, as it is the best
Email:
way to reach instructor. All email to the instructor in Desire2Learn will
be answered within 24 hours of being received, Monday through
Thursday. Email sent on Friday may not be answered until Monday
afternoon.
Office Hours at SJSU: M 1:30-2:30 or by appointment
Online Office Hours: W 11:00-12:30, R 11-12:30 or by appointment
Course Website: https://sjsu.desire2learn.com/
Students must have access to a computer with speakers/headphones
Prerequisites:
and a high-speed connection to the Internet (DSL, Cable or T1).
Course Website and Use of Desire2Learn
The course web site in Desire2Learn (https://sjsu.desire2learn.com/) will open on
Thursday, January 27 at 2 PM.
Students can learn how to access Desire2Learn at
http://www.sjsu.edu/ecampus/students/
Once in Desire2Learn the course will be listed as: SP11 GLST-METR-1B Intro to
Global Studies Section 01 - 2112_011147_01
Desire2Learn will be used for accessing weekly assignments, called expeditions,
electronic discussions, email, submitting graded assignments, and taking quizzes.
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Course Description
Presents scientific ways for understanding global phenomena and for developing
policy to achieve positive outcomes of globalization. Interdisciplinary approaches
require new analytical models. Visiting professors may collaborate with instructor.
Interdisciplinary approaches as well as analytical models will be used to understand
marine environmental issues and their impacts on global civilization. The course will
be divided into five topic units, each representing a contemporary challenge, both in
terms of the acquisition of scientific knowledge and its application to a global
environmental issue, these are:
• Topic Area 1 - Marine Resources and International Policy
• Topic Area 2 – Societal Hazards Beneath the Sea
• Topic Area 3 - Global Marine Ecosystems
• Topic Area 4 - Global State of Marine Fisheries
• Topic Area 5 - Ocean and Global Climate Change
Course Goals and Student Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1) analyze scientific evidence to demonstrate an understanding of the physical,
chemical and biological processes that drive the ocean, and therefore the
earth system, on a global scale, and humankind's relationship to them,
2) manage empirical information, write syntheses, and compose a written paper
about the global ocean based on scientific evidence,
3) apply the methods of science to problems impacting the global ocean and
humankind,
4) explain through discussion (electronic) how the interconnectedness of human
societies and the marine environment is present at local, regional, and global
scales, and
5) explain through research that addressing global ocean problems requires
analyses of data using the methods of science.
Course Workbook and Reading Assignments
A course workbook, also known as a course reader, is to be purchased at A.S.
Print Shop next to SJSU Student Union for approximately $17, beginning on
Tues. morning Feb .1 (I will let you know if it is available earlier)
The workbook contains worksheets, which constitute an outline for taking notes
on the online materials that will be crucial in preparing for quizzes and other
course assignments.
Required reading assignments will be posted online at the beginning of each
topic unit.
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Other equipment / material requirements
Colored Pencils (necessary for completely diagrams in expedition worksheets
Calculator (necessary for online work and exams)
Nature of Weekly Work and Responsibilities of Students
Students in the class will play an active role in their learning through the timely, but
self-paced, completion of online virtual expeditions in which students take on the role
of a research oceanographer studying global issues. Students are also required to
participate in electronic discussions, often problem-based and issue-oriented, with
other students on issues based on reading assignments. Students will participate in
two virtual expeditions each week, similar to attending two class meetings each
week. The expeditions, which replace classroom lectures, are web-based exercises
that come in two forms. One form is a self-paced tutorial, composed of text,
graphics, animations, and short segments of newscasts in streaming audio/video.
Students work their way through an expedition by viewing the pages and writing
answers to questions in the course worksheet and taking notes. The answers to
questions in the course workbook serve as the notes from which to prepare for
exams, discussion, essays and other assessments of learning. Students are
strongly advised to post any questions or thoughts on a particular expedition in the
associated “Any Questions” discussion on the Desire2Learn site. The weekly
expeditions go online each Tuesday at 1:30 PM and are, with few exceptions, to be
completed by the following Friday or Tuesday by 1 PM.
At the end of many expeditions, students are required to confirm their completion of
the work either through an email to the instructor, called the “Bye Don email” or their
participation in a required electronic discussion. More importantly, this confirmation
of the completed work provides a valuable opportunity to ask questions about the
material in the expedition and for the instructor to provide information on upcoming
assignments.
It is virtually impossible to estimate the amount of time required for individual
students to complete the weekly assignments because everyone works at their own
pace, which varies greatly from student to student in an online environment.
Students learn at different rates and the rate of has little or no relationship to the
quality of learning. Indeed “slow” learners comprehend just as much, if not more,
than “fast” learners. Please consider that a three-unit course during an academic
semester meets for a total 37.5 hours, plus the 2 hours and 15 minutes for the final
exam or nearly 40 hours of “class time.” An online course requires at least the same
amount of time, if not more, since the work involves a larger amount of reading and
writing than the equivalent classroom lecture format. Students can, however,
complete the work at their convenience each week.
Students should anticipate spending 2.5-3 hours per week, sometimes more,
completing the expeditions, which does not include the time for the assigned
readings, writing assignments, including discussions, or preparing for quizzes.
Please consider the extra time as “homework” just as you would have in classroom
sections.
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In summary, students should use the standard university guidelines that for each
hour of “in-class” requires another 1.5 to 2 hours of outside class time to complete
reading assignments and prepare assignments.
Dropping and Adding
Students are responsible for understanding the policies and procedures about
add/drops, academic renewal, etc. Information on add/drops are available at
http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/soc-fall/rec-324.html . Information about late drop
is available at http://www.sjsu.edu/sac/advising/latedrops/policy/ . Students should
be aware of the current deadlines and penalties for adding and dropping classes.
Assignments and Grading Policy
Grades in the class are based on combination of assignments, listed individually
below, resulting in a total of 1000 points. No extra credit is available in the class.
Online Expeditions (0 points, but see Course Workbook section below)
Self-paced, online tutorials, called expeditions, take the place of classroom lectures.
Students take on the role of practicing oceanographers in a series of virtual
oceanographic research activities.
Students should answer all of the questions on each expedition worksheet (honest,
but incorrect, attempts are not marked down). The completed worksheets are turned
in all at once as part of the course workbook after the quiz for the last topic unit in the
class – they are not turned in each week. A deduction of 5 points will be assessed
for each expedition that was not attempted in course workbook. More than two
skipped questions in an expedition will result in a penalty deduction of 5 points on
course workbook as well.
Electronic Discussion Boards (300 points – 30% of course grade)
Students will participate in five required discussions at the Desire2Learn site,
consisting of an initial posting, approximately 150-250 words long (about 11-20
sentences) and reply to another student with a posting of approximately 50-75 words
(about 4 to 5 sentences). The initial posting and subsequent reply to at least one
other student must be separate postings. Personal insight and accurate knowledge,
gained from the associated reading assignments, and the quality of writing to
communicate this knowledge to other students in the class are the important grading
criteria for the initial posting in discussion. Discussions are worth 60 points each; 50
points will be assessed for content knowledge (what you say), including accuracy,
and 10 points for ability to communicate, including writing quality, i.e. grammar and
composition (how you say it).
Grading criteria for the discussions will be based on the following rubric:
60-54 points = excellent work; well-written, insightful, and provides discussion
beyond requirements of assignment
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53-48 points = very good work; meets requirements of assignment by repeating what
is provided in book; may have a few errors in understanding or writing
quality, possibly a few awkward sentence constructions
47-42 points = Good to fair work; a number problems in writing style or
comprehension of associated assigned reading, but meets criteria of
assignment, may need better organization of thoughts, and overall
work needs to improve
41-36 points = Poor Work, little or no analysis, poor quality writing; does not show
insight from reading assignment; no reply,
35-0 points = not university-level work, does not follow requirements of assignment
or use material from reading assignment as supporting evidence, poor
writing quality
Not replying to the posting of another student will result in a 5 point penalty.
Initial postings of less than 150 words will receive a 5 to 15 point penalty, depending
brevity of posting
Exceeding 350 words in posting may result in a 5 point penalty.
The requirements for discussions associated with final are somewhat different, so
students should consult the web site and appropriate section in course workbook for
more details.
Due Dates and Late Policy on All Assignments
The due dates for each and every assignment, quiz, and exam is given in Course
Schedule section of this greensheet. It is the responsibility of each student to follow
the course schedule. The following deductions will be assessed for all work
submitted after the due dates given in course schedule:
0-4 hours late – 5% deduction
4-24 hours after deadline – 10% deduction
25-48 hours after deadline – 20% deduction
Late submissions will not accepted if more than 48 hours after deadline
Topic Area Online Quizzes - 120 points each – 600 points - 60% of course grade)
Student will complete an “open book/open notes” online quiz following each topic
unit, lasting approximately 50 minutes each. Students may take quiz anytime within a
24-hour period, but must complete quiz in one sitting (no logging out and back in).
All expeditions will be removed from the course web site at the beginning of
the quiz period.
Students must work alone during quiz and use only their own work to answer the
questions. Students may not use information from outside web sites, for example,
Wikipedia, during quiz or information from students in previous classes. Any
violation of these instructions will result in a failing grade on quiz (0 points) and
considered a violation of the SJSU Policy on Academic Integrity.
Quizzes may consist of approximately 15-20 multiple choice questions or an essay
question that will examine the ability of students to integrate course work into the key
learning outcomes.
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Students may request a change in the date and time of a quiz for personal
circumstances, such as other exams on same day, computer/internet access issues,
work schedule conflict, family obligations, and personal illness. All such requests
must be emailed or called in to instructor before the start of the quiz period.
Students who do not take quiz within scheduled period and who do not contact the
instructor in advance of quiz will be assessed a late penalty of 10 points for each 24-
hour period after scheduled end of exam.
Course Workbook (100 points – 10% of course grade)
Students will complete expedition worksheets in the course workbook, which will be
submitted for evaluation at end of the class. Failure to submit course workbook by
due date will result in an incomplete (I) grade in the class. A deduction of 5 points will
be assessed for each expedition that was not attempted in course workbook. More
than two skipped questions in an expedition will result in a penalty deduction of 5
points on course workbook as well.
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