A&O SCI M106
Applied Climatology: Principles of Climate Impact on Natural Environment
Description: (Same as Geography M106.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of knowledge and tools to solve complex problems in contemporary applied climatology, including current practices, influence of climate on environment, and human influence on changing climates. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2020 - Very interesting class, I learned a lot as a non-GEOG/AOS major about climate and its components. The professor cares about student learning and has decent slides and coursereader material. I've never gone to office hours but I'm sure he'll be happy to answer questions, he takes time to explain concepts too. As others have mentioned he does have a pretty heavy accent, but at most you'll have to pay a little more attention, it's not a big deal. I would recommend this class if you have some interest in climate, you don't even need much background. You need the coursereaders for the 2 homeworks (15% each), though I also found that the lectures were based exactly off them so I just mainly studied the coursereader for the final (40%, midterm was 30%) since it was well organized, relatively concise and had all the information taught in lectures anyways. Exams are straightforward and nothing tricky. Some questions are concepts straight from his slides which he explains in class (e.g. diagrams, tables, laws). Overall very managable class with moderate workload, and I like that a lot of what we learned in class was not purely theoretical, but applications and real-world stuff. Text me ********** if you wanna buy my coursereaders at discounted price (almost brand new and I'm pretty sure he's used the same one for years).
Fall 2020 - Very interesting class, I learned a lot as a non-GEOG/AOS major about climate and its components. The professor cares about student learning and has decent slides and coursereader material. I've never gone to office hours but I'm sure he'll be happy to answer questions, he takes time to explain concepts too. As others have mentioned he does have a pretty heavy accent, but at most you'll have to pay a little more attention, it's not a big deal. I would recommend this class if you have some interest in climate, you don't even need much background. You need the coursereaders for the 2 homeworks (15% each), though I also found that the lectures were based exactly off them so I just mainly studied the coursereader for the final (40%, midterm was 30%) since it was well organized, relatively concise and had all the information taught in lectures anyways. Exams are straightforward and nothing tricky. Some questions are concepts straight from his slides which he explains in class (e.g. diagrams, tables, laws). Overall very managable class with moderate workload, and I like that a lot of what we learned in class was not purely theoretical, but applications and real-world stuff. Text me ********** if you wanna buy my coursereaders at discounted price (almost brand new and I'm pretty sure he's used the same one for years).
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