Oceanography Minor

The Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences offers a minor Oceanography. Because oceanography is a truly integrative and synthetic field which continues to become more technological and global in its approach, the oceanography minor requires students to develop basic proficiencies in a variety of oceanography related fields, while allowing students to focus on their specific interests through selection of appropriate elective course work.

Requirements for a Minor in Oceanography:

Requires a minimum of 18 credit hours including 7 hours of core courses and 11 hours of electives. At least 9 hours of electives must be in courses at the 300 level or above.

Required courses:

OCN 150 - Introduction to Oceanography Credit Hours: 3
OCNL 150 - Introduction to Oceanography Laboratory Credit Hours: 1
OCN 350 - Advanced Oceanography Credit Hours: 3

Electives

Students must also complete a minimum of 11 hours of electives, 9 of which must be above the 299 level. Students may select from the following and any additional OCN course.

BIO 318 - Invertebrate Zoology Credit Hours: 3
BIO 362 - Marine Ecology Credit Hours: 3
BIO 367 - Antarctic Ecology, Geology, History, and Policy Credit Hours: 3
BIO 434 - Coastal Marine Ecology Credit Hours: 3
BIO 462 - Deep Sea Biology Credit Hours: 3
CHM 377 - Environmental Chemistry Credit Hours: 3
CHM 475 - Chemical Oceanography Credit Hours: 3
CHML 377 - Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Credit Hours: 1
EVS 472 - Coastal Protected Areas Management Credit Hours: 3
GGY 322 - Introduction to Remote Sensing Credit Hours: 3
GGY 333 - Applied Climatology Credit Hours: 3
GGY 424 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems Credit Hours: 3
GGY 426 - Environmental Geographic Information Systems Credit Hours: 3
GGY 428 - Advanced Remote Sensing Credit Hours: 3
GGY 433 - Weather Analysis and Forecasting Credit Hours: 3
GLY 390 - Field Methods in Geosciences Credit Hours: 2
GLY 420 - Global Climate Change Credit Hours: 3
GLY 426 - Geohydrology Credit Hours: 3
GLY 439 - Paleoclimatology Credit Hours: 3
GLY 450 - Geological Oceanography Credit Hours: 4
GLY 454 - Coastal Geomorphology Credit Hours: 3
GLY 465 - Introduction to Geophysics Credit Hours: 3
GLY 472 - Introduction to Geochemistry Credit Hours: 3
GLY 473 - Isotope Geochemistry Credit Hours: 3
PHY 475 - Physical Oceanography Credit Hours: 3
PHY 477 - Observational Methods in Physical Oceanography Credit Hours: 3
PHY 478 - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Credit Hours: 3
PHY 479 - Ocean Circulation Systems Credit Hours: 3
PHY 480 - Coastal And Estuarine Systems Credit Hours: 3

Total: 18 hours

Additional Information:

Students must have an overall “C” (2.00) average in courses counted toward the minor.