General university courses at Faculty of Geology (course group defined by Faculty of Geology)

• Placement - 30 hours

The subject shows the implementation path, as well as the methods of presenting three-dimensional visualizations of various objects that can be used in research and studies in various fields of science, as well as in popular science. The development of 3D models will be based on data (photos, videos) collected by various methods: smartphone, digital SLR, mirrorless camera, drone.

• Placement - 45 hours

Ceramic workshops - theory and practice, are classes carried out in the form of a practical training, which aims to familiarize the student with the subject of designing artistic ceramics, including the methods of shaping and decorating it, in connection with the basic issues of the technology of ceramic raw materials. During the classes, it will be possible to implement original projects in the known techniques.

• Proseminar - 30 hours

• Proseminar - 30 hours

Delivering lectures about the biology of dinosaurs, about the extinctions in the history of life, and about the link between the seawater chemistry and the chemistry of the skeletons of marine organisms.

• Lecture - 30 hours

Evolutionism as a synthetic natural science, whih descripes and explains evolutionary processes at almost all levels of biota organization. Micro-, macro-, megaevolution and relationsheeps between them. Molecular evolution and evolution of development. Mechanisms of evolution. Evolutionary processes in particular groups of organisms (selected examples).

• Lecture - 30 hours

The lectures continue the presentation of important gemstones and ornamental stones from the winter semester (Gemology part 1). They discuss also organic gemstones and noble metals. Each stone is presented along with its physicochemical characteristics, value for ornamental puroposes, its origin and natural occurence, its most important deposits, as well as its market, types of cuts, methods of improving the atractiveness and of imitation, and the means of its identification.

• Placement - 30 hours

• Placement - 30 hours

Classes take the form of practical sessions held weekly on Saturday in the October over a period of 4 weeks. Three session are of 8 hours duration and one session is of 6 hours duration. The venue for indoor classes during the first 3 sessions is the Faculty of Geology. Laboratory classes take place in lecture rooms. During these 3 sessions participants are also going out for a short walk around the Ochota Campus and some different point of Warsaw. Remaining one session, dedicated to applications for natural stone in architecture, are held entirely off-campus in various locations in the city. Minerals and rocks identification constitutes the main subject of laboratory classes. Field sessions refer to the skills and knowledge acquired by the participants during the laboratory classes.

• Lecture - 15 hours

Lecture concerning phylogenetical relationships, evolution, migration and behaviour of Homo sapiens and related species, with the particular focus on the palaeontological and archaeological evidence.

• Lecture - 30 hours

Classes conducted based on the "case study" method allow - based on real situations - to master the decision-making process related to the implementation of environmental protection (with particular emphasis on the protection of inanimate nature).

• Lecture - 30 hours

• Lecture - 30 hours

The lecture presents a wide range of magnetism applications in Earth sciences (geology, environment protection, Earth magnetic field studies), as well as others (archaeology, biology, medicine, material structure/mineralogy studies). It covers fundamental physical principles of magnetism, the relation of rock magnetisation to Earth magnetic field, spectacular discoveries of paleomagnetic methods, as well as practical methods of measurements. The lecture introduces the state-of-art in magnetism and provides the necessary knowledge for the participants to undertake their own research. In the practical part, the participants visit the paleomagnetic laboratory and train the interpretation of measurement results. The studying of magnetic methods may be further continued by attending a separate practical course or as diploma theses done at European Centre for Geological Education (University of Warsaw), Institute of Geophysics (Polish Academy of Sciences) or Polish Geological Institute.

• Lecture - 30 hours

• Lecture - 30 hours

The lecture introduces various geology aspects, discusses the geological setting of Poland with connection to the mineral resources potential. The students familiarize with the most important rocks and minerals used in the industry. The main topics are: energetic, chemical, metallic raw materials as well as building stones.

• Lecture - 30 hours

Lecture subjected to the lake ecosystems as well as analyses of palaeolakes and lake deposits. It describes basic palaeolimnological methods with climatic reconstructions in the past.

• Lecture - 30 hours

Basic information on vertebrate palaeontology, micropalaeontology and palaeobotany.

• Classes - 30 hours

General structure of skeleton in vertebrates. Major information on vertebrate systematics and cladistics. Groups of animals related to vertebrates. Conodonts. Fossil and Recent agnathans. Characteristics of the gnathostomes. Placoderms and acanthodians. Chondrichthyans. General structure and dentition types of elasmobranchs. Euchondrocephalans. Osteichthyans. Problems with cranial bone homology. Vertebrate conquest of the land. Amphibians. The earliest amniotes. Permo-Mesozoic reptiles. Aquatic reptiles. Diapsida: early archosaurs; pterosaurs. Late Triassic exchange of terrestrial faunas. Dinosaurs and birds. The flight and its applications. Synapsids. Modification of mandibula and mandibular hinge in the cynodont-mammalian lineage. Mesozoic mammals. The K-T extinction. Palaeocene explosive radiation of mammals. Primates. Hominids. Concepts on the emergence of modern humans.

• Classes - 30 hours

• Classes - 30 hours

The course teaches identifying most common rocks and rock-forming minerals by a macroscopic method. In the second part of the course, students learn interpreting geological maps and constructing geological cross-sections.

• Monographic lecture - 30 hours

• Monographic lecture - 30 hours

Lecture presents these results of investigations of planets and moons of Solar System, which indicate occurrence of different tectonic processes – in past and present.