| Description | Two binders of student notes, with typescript handouts, on Geology taken by Peter Worsely as an undergraduate at the University College of North Staffordshire, 1959-1962 (Years 2-4). Comprises:
Binder 1
1) Crystallography (Oct 1959)
2) Mineralogy
3) Petrology (+ igneous petrology)
4) Sedimentary petrology
5) Metamorphic petrology (Oct 1961)
6) Geochemistry, Phase diagrams + Metamorphism bibliographic references
7) Structural Geology
8) P1 Mapping Course
Binder 2
9) Notes on oceanic basins & Stratigraphy
10) Statistics
11) Fossils: Trilobites, Echinoids, Coelenterates, Gastropods, Lamellibranchs, Brachiopods, Graptolites, Cephalapoda
Also included are excerpts from the UCNS prospectus from 1961-1962 which gives an overview of the geology course and a copy photograph of the UCNS geology department of 1962, which includes Worsley. |
| Administrative History | University College of North Staffordshire was founded in 1949 and was the brainchild of Lord Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Known as the 'Keele Experiment', its rational was providing a more broad-based university education. The degree course was of 4 years duration and designed to widen a student’s perspective of the western world. Year 1 was the ‘Foundation Year’ and there was a common course of lectures (2 a day) mainly given by all the Professors in turn. These were backed up by weekly tutorials. In parallel, students had to follow 2 three term courses in subjects new to their experience. Worsely could not select geology as he had studied it at A Level. Instead he took American history and Chemistry. In addition, each term a student took a different course usually on subjects taken at ‘A’ level.
In Years 2-4, students took two 'Principal' subjects of equal standing (P1, P2 & P3), Worsley choosing Geology and Geography. In year 2 and year 3 a year-long subsidiary subject was required, Worsely elected to take Chemistry and Economics. All students graduated as BA.
In 1962 UCNS became Keele University.
The student notes are of interest as they were taken during a period when the beginnings of what would become plate tectonics were gradually filtering into the teaching of students. |