Online Climate Change Course, Summer 2009

Earth Sciences 580 is an entirely online 3-credit graduate-level course on climate change offered through the Office of Continuing Education under contract with the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State. As a result of that arrangement, currently-enrolled Ohio State students are not eligible to enroll.

Seventeen people from around the U.S.A. and one person in India participated in the pilot version of the course in Summer 2009. Participants were from Massachusetts, Washington, Texas, Illinois, New Mexico, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Washington D.C. They represented a range of backgrounds and experiences including: three elementary teachers, a lab manager, a greenhouse engineer, a staff person for the Organization of American States (OAS), three high school teachers, two former participants with NSF Polar Programs (ANDRILL and PolarTREC), and a former salesperson for carbon offsets. Some offered comments about the course.

The course will be offered again in WI, SP, and SU terms of the 2009-2010 academic year, under contract with the Office of Continuing Education and the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State.

For more information about the course, please contact .

The OSU Office of Continuing Education and School of Earth Sciences are offering an online graduate course about climate change (3 quarter hours of grad credit) from June 15 - July 24, 2009. The course will be conducted entirely online. It is based on science content that will be provided on DVD (mailed to students prior to the beginning of the course). Current OSU students are ineligible to enroll in this course.

Ten partial scholarships are available for the first offering of the course "Understanding Global Climate Change". Recipients of a scholarship, equaling $460, agree to assist the developers of the course with timely assessments of the course content, implementation, and delivery. The balance of fees and costs for the course ($115) must be paid by June 15, the first day of the course.

Course description

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Table of Contents for the DVD

Please fax page 1 (only) of this application to:
Carol Landis
Byrd Polar Research Center
+1 614-292-4697