Physical Marine Science Concentration

The Physical Marine Sciences track provides training in the physical sciences as they relate to the processes in the ocean, and it allows students to specialize in a subdiscipline such as marine geology, chemical oceanography or physical oceanography.

PLEASE NOTE: This page does not contain listings for required General Education Requirement courses or reflect total credit hours required for the chosen program. Students must work with advisors to ensure correct scheduling of courses and credit hours for the chosen program.  SBS = Semester by the Sea.

 

Physical Marine Science Electives: Choose a minimum of 15 credit hours

Department Code	Course Number	Course Name	Credits
SMS	300*	Marine Ecology	3
SMS	325	Marine Geology	3
SMS	330	Descriptive Physical Oceanography	3
SMS	333	Applied Meteorology	3
SMS	350	SBS: Undergraduate Seminar	1
SMS	352*	SBS: Marine Ecology	4
SMS	410	Marine Physics	4
SMS	460	Climate Change: Understanding the Forecast	3
SMS	481	SBS: Design of Marine Organisms	4
SMS	482	SBS: Human Impacts on the Ocean	3
SMS	490	SBS: Special Topics (Appropriate topics)	1 to 4
SMS	491	Problems in Marine Sciences (Appropriate topics)	Arr.
SMS	520	Chemical Oceanography	3

* Either but not both of SMS 300 and 352 qualify toward the Physical Marine Science Concentration.

Additional Physical Marine Science Electives

Department code	Course Number	Course Name	Credits
CHY	242	Principles of Quantitative Analysis & Solution Equilibrium	5
CHY	251	Organic Chemistry I (AND Lab, CHY 253)	5
CHY	252	Organic Chemistry II (AND lab, CHY 254)	5
CHY	371	Physical Chemistry I	3
CHY	372	Physical Chemistry II	3
CHY	461	Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I	3
ERS	314	Invertebrate Paleontology	3
ERS	315	Principles of Sedimentology & Stratigraphy	4
ERS	534	Coastal Sedimentology	4
MAT	228	Calculus III	4
MAT	258	Intro. to Diff Eqns with Linear Algebra	4
SIE	433	Remote Sensing	4