Marine Related Core Education Classes

The core education classes required by OSU offer plenty of opportunity to put the ocean in your major! Depending on your major, these courses could also fulfill major requirements (except for Seeking Solutions). Talk to your advisor for more information.

Want to take classes at the coast?

  

The Coastal Course Roster has classes at Hatfield Marine Science Center!

Still on the Baccalaureate Core Program?

  

There's marine related Baccalaureate Core classes too!

 

Foundational Core

  • Introduction to Pacific Island Studies (ES 260)

  • Ocean, Coasts, and People (OC 203)
  • Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy (AEC 250)

  • Introduction to Biological Oceanography (OC 202)

  • The Blue Planet: The Worlds Oceans (OC 101)

  • Dynamic Planet (GEOG 102)

  • Climate Science (ATS 201)

  • Oceanography (OC 201)

  • Introduction to Environmental Science and Sustainability (SUS 102)

Signature Core

  • Food from the sea (FW 324)
  • Global Crises in Resource Ecology (FW 325)
  • Endangered Species, Society, and Sustainability (FW 350)
  • Minerals, Energy, Water, and The Environment (GEO 306)
  • Sustainability for The Common Good (GEOG 300)
  • Sustainable Communities (SUS 350)
  • Frozen: Our Icy Planet in Climate and Societal Context (ATS 342)