Ludman, Allan, and Marshak, Stephen, 2010. Laboratory manual for introductory geology: New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 422 p., ISBN 978-0-393-92814-3.

You must participate in a mandatory class field trip at 8:30 A.M. on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Transportation will be provided by the College from the RGC campus and the trip is expected to return by 7:00 P.M. You must participate in an ACC physical geology field trip to pass this course. Department policy states that students who do not attend the required field trip will fail the class. If you cannot attend our class trip on March 24, 2012, it is you responsibility to make arrangements in advance to participate in another  professor's field trip. Do not assume that if you miss the field trip that you will be able to make it up.

You are expected to attend all lectures and laboratory sessions, participate in class discussion, and work with your professor and classmates to learn the course content. This may include distributing and collecting course materials, setting up and logging off of computers, participating in demonstrations, and cleaning up after laboratory and field activities. Assignments turned in late will be penalized four points each calendar day; however, it is better to turn an assignment in late than to receive no points for the work. Late assignments must be submitted to Professor Blodgett's mailbox in RGC Rm. 204 with the date stamped on them by the mail room assistant. Late work will not be accepted after an assignment has been returned to the class.

If you decide to drop this class, you must protect your academic record by withdrawing no later than Monday, April 23, 2012. The professor reserves the right to withdraw a student for not complying with course/ACC policies or for not meeting course objectives. Departmental policy forbids the professor from withdrawing you after April 23, 2012. State law permits students to withdraw from no more than six courses during their entire undergraduate career at Texas public colleges or universities. With certain exceptions, all course withdrawals automatically count towards this limit. Students who enroll for the third or subsequent time in a course taken since Fall 2002, may be charged higher tuition for that course. Details on this policy can be found in the ACC Catalog:  http://www.austincc.edu/catalog/

An incomplete (grade of "I") will be given only if extenuating circumstances, such as illness or death of a loved one, prevent a student from completing the final examination and/or final laboratory quiz. Incompletes must be requested in writing with documentation of the extenuating circumstances. If a grade of I is given, the final examination and/or final laboratory quiz must be taken no later than one week before the end of the first 2012 Summer Session.