Wetland requirements

Wetland Environments
Course Requirements

Two exams. Each exam covers lecture and lab material for about half of the semester. Each test is worth 25% of total grade. At the graduate level, exams are graded more stringently and include extra questions.
Lab exercises that involve various aspects of wetland hydrology, soils, biology or human use. Labs are worth 20% of total grade.
Field trip to Cheyenne Bottoms and vicinity in central Kansas. The field trip is tentatively scheduled for late April (20-21). All students in Kansas are expected to take part in the field trip. A fee of $25 will be charged to cover overnight accomodations and one dinner; transportation is furished free. Students unable to attend must make individual arrangements for an alternative experience.
Group project: Students will voluntarily form small groups of 3-4 members. Membership should be interdisciplinary, if possible, in order to develop a project that involves some issue of wetlands conservation, ecology, management, or exploitation. Group projects will be developed in consultation with the instructors. Each group will give its project results near the end of the semester in the form of a poster, PowerPoint, or webpage presentation. Group project is 25% of total grade.

See instructions for preparation and submission of student webpages.
Note: Project must be original and unique work created by the students' own effort and submitted for this course only. Project results, images, text or other components of the report may not be utilized for other earth science courses without permission of the instructor.
Class participation: On-campus students are expected to attend all scheduled sessions. Distance-learning students are expected to communicate with your instructor via e-mail on a weekly basis concerning course material. All students are expected to participate in a field experience (see field trip). Participation is worth 5% of grade.
Some lecture and lab materials are supplied as pdf files that students should obtain via FTP.
The ESU student academic dishonesty policy is observed in this course. See grading scale.

ADA statement: Emporia State University will make reasonable accommodations for persons with documented disabilities. Students need to contact the Director of Disability Services and the professor as early in the semester as possible to ensure that classroom and academic accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion. All communication between students, the Office of Disability Services, and the professor will be strictly confidential.