課程大綱(Course Outline)
英授(Taught in English)

This course is an introduction to fundamental mineralogy and mineralogical principles.  After completing this class, students can identify important minerals and explain why minerals are found where they are found. They are familiar with the fundamentals of mineral properties, optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, crystallography, and the atomic structures of minerals. They can explain mineral systematics and the physics and chemistry that relates all minerals and mineral properties.