EPS20: Earthquakes in your Backyard
Undergraduate Class, Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, 2023
Earthquakes in your Backyard (EPS20) is a large lower division undergraduate class at UC Berkeley, taught by Professors Richard Allen and Roland Burgmann. Students come from a wide variety of intended majors, including STEM, Economics, Business, and Media Studies, amongst others. Students spend a semester learning all about earthquake and tsunami hazards, with a particular emphasis on the issues facing California. Equal emphasis is placed on the scientific understanding of these phenomena and potential mitigation actions.