400 Level (Advanced Core & Elective Courses for Majors & Minors)

• Credits: By Arrangment
• Prerequisites: Minimum 3.0 cumulative and geology grade-point averages. Adviser's approval required for registration

Topic of study chosen in consultation with a faculty adviser.

• Credits: 3
• Instructor(s): EPS Faculty
• Prerequisites: All courses for EPS majors in their senior year, or by special permission.

History of the solid Earth, oceans, atmosphere, and life over the past 4.5 billion years as narrated by major events in the geological record.

• Credits: 3
• Instructor(s): Prof. Falkowski
• Prerequisites: Introductory Gelogy and Introductory Chemistry, Biology or Physics (or permission of the Instructor).

Integration of atmospheric, oceanographic, geological and biological concepts with an historical perspective to introduce the major processes that have shaped Earth's environment; climatic processes on geological time scales; the evolution of organisms; the cycling of elements; the feedbacks between these processes.

• Credits: 3
• Instructor(s): Prof. Wright, Miller
• Prerequisites: 01:460:300

Current knowledge and approaches to studying the Earth covered by ocean, from  shoreline to deepest trench; depth and form of the seafloor as  lower boundary of  water that moves above it; composition of marine sediments; modes of transport into and within ocean basins plus global cycles and history they record; geologic and geophysical tools used to determine this record and infer properties and evolution of ocean crust