EESC5563 · Earth and Environmental Sciences
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course will discuss major climate events through the course of Earth's history, including Snowball Earth; warm Cretaceous; Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum; Pleistocene ice ages, and ongoing climate change in the Anthropocene. We will evaluate the data and evidence documenting these climate events and discuss the underlying governing mechanisms in the context of radiative balance, greenhouse gases, ice sheets, ocean circulation, and biogeochemistry. Formats will include lectures, student presentations and discussion of scientific literature, and a term paper.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.5 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.6 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.6 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.8 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~5
hours per week
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Across time
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Fall 2023
1 sectionFall 2020
1 section