Climate Change Sciences Minor

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

Core:

Choose two of the following courses (only one of the Global Climate Change courses will count). The remaining courses can be used as an elective.

GGY 230 - Introduction to Weather and Climate Credit Hours: 3
OCN 250 - Coasts and Society Credit Hours: 3
Choose from one of the following Global Climate Change courses:
GGY 420 - Global Climate Change Credit Hours: 3 or
GLY 420 - Global Climate Change Credit Hours: 3 or
PHY 420 - Global Climate Change Credit Hours: 3

Total Core Hours: 6

Electives:

Choose 12 credit hours from the classes listed below with at least one course from each of the two categories. At least nine credit hours must be at the 300 level or above.

Current and Future Climate

BIO 378 - Global Environmental Problems Credit Hours: 3
EVS 205 - Global Environmental Issues Credit Hours: 3
EVS 305 - Environmental Impacts of Climate Change Credit Hours: 3
GGY 101 - Modern World Geography Credit Hours: 3
GGY 230 - Introduction to Weather and Climate Credit Hours: 3
GGY 333 - Applied Climatology Credit Hours: 3
GGY 340 - Global Change: Population, Resources, and the Environment Credit Hours: 3
GGY 426 - Environmental Geographic Information Systems Credit Hours: 3
GGY 475 - Water Resources: Science and Policy Credit Hours: 3
OCN 250 - Coasts and Society Credit Hours: 3
OCN 350 - Advanced Oceanography Credit Hours: 3
PHY 107 - Introduction to Climate Physics Credit Hours: 0 To 4

Past Climates

GGY 130 - Geosystems Credit Hours: 4
GGY 420 - Global Climate Change Credit Hours: 3
GLY 125 - Natural Disasters Credit Hours: 3
GLY 132 - The Earth Through Time Credit Hours: 4
GLY 420 - Global Climate Change Credit Hours: 3
GLY 439 - Paleoclimatology Credit Hours: 3
OCN 150 - Introduction to Oceanography Credit Hours: 3
OCN 475 - Marine Biogeochemistry Credit Hours: 3
OCN 485 - Relative Sea Level Credit Hours: 3
PHY 420 - Global Climate Change Credit Hours: 3