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Undergraduate Bulletin College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Minor in Climate Change Science

Students on Summer 2024, Fall 2024, or Spring 2025 requirements CLCHSCIMIN

Requirements

The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
  1. Introductory Course. One (1) course:
    • EAS-E 105 Earth: Our Habitable Planet
    • EAS-E 116 Our Planet and Its Future
    • EAS-E 122 Earth's Dynamic Atmosphere
    • EAS-E 131 Oceans and Our Global Environment
    • EAS-E 227 Earth Climate and History
    • EAS-X 150 ASURE Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Research Lab
    • COLL-C 105 Critical Approaches to the Natural and Mathematical Sciences (Approved topics: "RECORDS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE" (TPC 16))
    • GEOG-G 109 Weather and Climate
    • GEOG-G 185 Environmental Change: The End of the World as We Know It?
  2. Advanced courses.
    1. 300-level course. One (1) course:
      • EAS-A 315 Climate Engineering
      • EAS-A 332 Atmospheric Thermodynamics & Cloud Processes
      • EAS-A 340 Physical Meteorology and Climatology
      • EAS-A 347 Instrumentation for Atmospheric Science
      • EAS-A 364 Atmospheric Dynamics I
      • EAS-E 341 Natural History of Coral Reefs
      • GEOG-G 304 Physical Meteorology and Climatology
      • GEOG-G 329
      • GEOG-G 349 Holocene Paleoclimate
      • GEOG-G 356 Global Carbon Cycle and Climate
      • PHYS-P 310 Environmental Physics
    2. 400-level course. One (1) course:
      • EAS-A 434 Dynamic Meteorology 2
      • EAS-A 437 Advanced Synoptic Meteorology and Climatology
      • EAS-A 474 Topics in Atmospheric Science
      • EAS-A 476 Climate Change Science
      • EAS-E 488 Paleoclimatology: A Geological Record of Earth's Climate History
      • GEOG-G 405 Ecological Climatology
      • GEOG-G 407
      • GEOG-G 433 Advanced Synoptic Meteorology and Climatology
      • GEOG-G 444 Climate Change Impacts
      • GEOG-G 452 Tree-Ring Science
      • GEOG-G 475 Climate Change
  3. Electives. Two (2) additional courses:
    • Additional courses from the 300-level course list above
    • Additional courses from the 400-level course list above
  4. Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
    1. Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
    2. Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
    3. Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
    4. Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.

Minor Area Courses

  • Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:

    • Any course at the 100–499 level with the EAS subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent
    • Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
    • Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception

This program of study cannot be combined with the following:

  • Minor in Environmental Science (ENVSCIMIN)

Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.