Schedule of Classes

The earth in space; weather, earth materials, and geological processes that control development of the earth's surface.

Laboratory related to GES 101. One two-hour laboratory per week.

Introduction to scientific oceanography and its relationship to human life. History of oceanography and its technology; crustal movements; the ocean as a source of mineral resources; the variety of ocean life such as jellyfish and sharks, and their danger; whales and the human perspective of "lower" life; sound and submarine warfare, waves and their potential energy and destructive capacity; human pollution.