EARTH 603 Creative Synthesis in Design
The role of association and imagery in solution generation. Types of solution generators. Adaptive and substitutional processes. The role of experimentation and analysis in synthesis.
Earth Sciences (EARTH)
14 courses in the 1965–66 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
EARTH 604 Design Morphology and Organization
Generation of problem statements, systems identification, generation of solution sets, feasibility determination. Construction of archtypes; sensitivity, compatibility and stability analysis; behaviour prediction, and solution communication.
EARTH 605 Decisions, Value and Utility in Design
Decisions under certainty, risk, and uncertainty, preference measures, ranking and transitivity, quality, dimensional analysis of quality, thresholds, simulation methods.
EARTH 606 Planning of Innovative and Design Processes
Logic of design, determination of operations sequencing, estimates of time, uncertainty, risk and iteration related to design operations and time, determination of design operations nets.
EARTH 607 Thesis
Group B
EARTH 651 Problems of Spatial Movement and Human Dynamics
EARTH 652 Economics of Industrial Product and Structural Design
EARTH 653 Industrial Product Design
654, Design of Visual and Spatial Environments
655, Design of Communications Media
EARTH 656 Analysis and Criticism of Environmental Design
EARTH 657 Special Directed Studies
Department of Earth Sciences
P. F. Karrow, B.Sc. (Queen’s), Ph.D. (Illinois) : Associate Professor and Acting Chairman of the Department
**130, Introductory Geology. Minerals and rocks; geological processes and their effects; structural geology; economic geology; historical geology; mineral and rock specimens; topographical and geological maps; field trips.
2 lectures, 3 hours laboratory.
EARTH 230 Mineralogy
Crystallography, crystal chemistry, systematic and determinative mineralogy of the ore and rock forming minerals. 2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory.
EARTH 235 Paleontology
Taxonomy and evolution of fossil plants and animals; paleoecology; fossil specimens. 2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory.
EARTH 240 Geomorphology
Origin and classification of landforms; erosional and depositional processes; weathering and soil formation; mass wasting; field trips. 2 lectures, 3 hours laboratory.
+330. Petrology. Origin and classification of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks; intrusion and extrusion; sedimentation; rock facies. 2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory.
+335. Stratigraphy. Sedimentary rock sequences; correlation; stratigraphic nomenclature; use of fossils in stratigraphy; field trips. 2 lectures, 3 hours laboratory.
EARTH 338 Geophysics
An introductory course on the physics of the earth. Origin, -heat, and temperature of the earth, study of earthquakes and the earth’s interior through earthquake waves; gravity and isostasy; terrestrial magnetism; effects of heat, temperature, and strain on rocks; origin of continents, mountain ranges; the ocean floors; meteorology; geophysical techniques.
2 lectures.
+340. Structural Geology. Primary and secondary structures in igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks; physical properties of rocks and the effects of stress on rocks; structure and topography.
2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory.
**Earth Sciences 130 is pre-requisite to all Earth Sciences’ courses, except Earth Sciences 338.
+ to be offered in 1966.