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Earth System Science Core Courses


The ESS curriculum requires students to take five core courses starting with ESS 2000, introducing the physical Earth system. This is followed by ESS 3480, which brings human activities into the network. Next, the Earth system is studied in more detail, including computer and conceptual modeling, in ESS4001. Academic credit for ESS 4970 is earned with the required internship, which is overseen and approved by a faculty committee, and usually occurs between the junior and senior years. And, finally, a senior-level capstone course, ESS 4950, includes some hands-on research addressing various interdisciplinary questions about the Earth system.


ESS 1000. The Earth System: 2. [I].
 ESS 2000. Foundations of Geology. 4. [SE].
ESS 3480. Environmental Change. 3. [WB, G].
ESS 4001. Modeling the Earth System. 4.
ESS 4950. Earth System Exploration. 3. [WC].
 ESS 4970. Internship. 2.