The concepts presented are developed and supported with minimal mathematics. Designed as a science elective for business, humanities, and social science students. This introductory course is designed to provide a primarily descriptive survey of the weather and climate for non-science majors. Subjects covered include composition and structure of the atmosphere, solar and terrestrial radiation, temperature, atmospheric stability, forms of condensation and precipitation, pressure and wind systems, weather analysis and forecasting methods, severe weather, air pollution, world climates, the changing climate, and optical phenomena in the atmosphere.
Laboratory is a separate course.
Three hours lecture. Enrollment limited to non-science majors. This course is designed to provide a primarily descriptive survey of the universe for non-science majors. Subjects covered include early Greek astronomy, gravity, the nature of light, space travel, the Earth-Moon system, planets, comets, meteors, the Sun, stars and stellar evolution, the Milky Way, galaxies, and cosmology. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory.