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This course is designed to provide an overview of the geoscience profession, with specific examples in geophysical applications, and illuminate career paths available to learners with some of these interests, education, and training. We estimate that this course will take around 5 hours to complete. This course is brought to you by SAGE Facility operated by the EarthScope Consortium.
Students are expected to learn the following when they take this course:
This is an asynchronous short-course that contains videos, resources for learning more, and a set of questions in each section to help facilitate learning. An asynchronous course is a course that can be done on your own time. Feel free to pause, take a break, and come back to your saved progress to continue with the course. There is no deadline for completion of this course.
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There are no pre-requisites for this course.
Heather Houlton - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Workforce Development Consultant
Danielle Sumy - Project Manager, EarthScope Consortium
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No, in fact that's the advantage of offering asynchronous online courses. You can go through the course at your own pace, pause when you wish, save your progress, and resume the course when it’s convenient for you to do so.
There is no registration fee for the course. You may view the entire course, and complete all the assessments, assignments, and exams at no cost.
Not at this time.