Marine Related Core Education Courses

OSU's Core Education courses offer plenty of opportunities to "put the ocean" in your major! While Core Education credits are required to complete your degree program, students have the option of choosing which courses fulfill those credits. Depending on your degree program, these courses could also fulfill major requirements (except for Seeking Solutions). Talk to your advisor for more information.

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)

Want to take classes at the coast?

  

 Check out our Coastal Course Roster for courses at Hatfield Marine Science Center!

Still on the Baccalaureate Core Program?

  

There are marine-related Baccalaureate Core classes too! Contact us for more information.