Prerequisites: admission to University Honors or consent of instructor

Description: Honors course corresponding to GEO 011. Provides an understanding of Earth’s feedback systems that regulate the climate over long- and short-term time scales. Includes oceanic and atmospheric circulation patterns, the major reservoirs and global carbon cycle, and the influence and origin of greenhouse gases. Investigates sustainability, climate change policies, adaptation, and mitigation.

Credit: Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available. Credit is awarded for only one of GEO 011 or GEO 011H.