Course Listings

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This is a listing of courses the Department of Earth and Planetary Science offers. Not all classes are offered each semester. For a listing of courses offered during a particular semester, please check the Schedule of Courses at http://schedule.berkeley.edu/ or click on the link to the current semester from our home page.

Lower Division Courses:

EPS 2 Gems and Gem Minerals | Course Webpage
EPS 3 The Water Planet
EPS 8 Geologic Record of Climate Change | Course Flyer
EPS c12 The Planets
EPS 20 Earthquakes In Your Backyard | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS 24 Freshman Seminar in EPS | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS 39A Geological Influences in Calif. Society | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS 49A Geology of National Parks
EPS 49B Geology of National Parks
EPS 50 The Planet Earth | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS 80 Environmental Earth Sciences
EPS c82 Introduction to Oceans | Course Webpage
EPS 98 Directed Group Study

Upper Division Courses:

EPS c100 Communicating Ocean Science | Course Webpage
EPS 100A Minerals: Their Constitution and Origin | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS 100B Genesis and Interpretation of Rocks
EPS 101 Field Geology and Digital Mapping | Course Webpage
EPS 102 History and Evolution of Planet Earth | Course Webpage
EPS 103 Introduction to Marine Geochemistry | Course Webpage
EPS 105 Hydrogeology
EPS 106AC Cross Roads of Earth Resources & Society
EPS 107 Global Tectonics
EPS 109 Computer Simulations in Earth and Planetary Science | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS 111 Petroleum Geology
EPS 115 Stratigraphy and Earth History | Course Flyer
EPS 116 Structural Geology and Tectonics | Course Webpage
EPS 117 Geomorphology | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS 118 Advanced Field Course | Course Webpage
EPS 119 Geologic Field Studies | Course Webpage
EPS c120 Analysis of Environmental Data
EPS 122 Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS c129 Biometeorology
EPS 130 Strong Motion Seismology
EPS 131 Geochemistry
EPS c141 Paleoclimatology
EPS c146 Geological Oceanography
EPS 150 Case Studies in Earth Systems | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS c162 Planetary Astrophysics
EPS 170AC Cross Roads of Earth Resources & Society | Course Webpage | Course Flyer
EPS c178 Applied Geophysics
EPS c180 Air Pollution
EPS 181 Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics
EPS 182 Laboratory and Numerical Methods in Atmospheric Science
EPS 185 Marine Geobiology | Course Flyer

Graduate Division Courses:

EPS 200 Problems in Hydrogeology
EPS 202 Thermodynamic Analysis of Chemical Reactions in Natural Processes
EPS 203 Introduction to Marine Geochemistry
EPS 204 Elastic Wave Propagation
EPS 206 Geophysical Inverse Methods
EPS 207 Laboratory in Observational Seismology
EPS 208 Mechanical Properties of Earth Materials
EPS 209 Mineral Thermodynamics
EPS 210 Advanced Ore Petrology
EPS 211 Advanced Digital Mapping and Surveying for Scientists, Engineers and Planners
EPS 212 Advanced Stratigraphy and Tectonics
EPS 214 Igneous Petrology
EPS 216 Active Tectonics | Course Webpage
EPS 217 Fluvial Geomorphology
EPS 218 Seminar in Seismology
EPS 219 Seminar in Geophysics
EPS 220 Advanced Concepts in Mineral Physics
EPS 224 Isotopic Geochemistry
EPS 225 Topics in High-Pressure Research
EPS c241 Geochemical Approaches to Modern and Past Environments and Climates
EPS c242 Glaciology
EPS c246 Geological Oceanography
EPS c249 Solar System Astrophysics
EPS 250 Advanced Topics in Earth and Environmental Sciences
EPS 251 Carbon Cycle Dynamics
EPS 254 Advanced Topics in Seismology and Geophysics
EPS 255 Advanced Topics in Earth and Planetary Science
EPS 256 Earthquake of the Week
EPS 271 Field Geology and Digital Mapping | Course Webpage
EPS 260 Research in Earth Science
EPS 300 Professional Preparation: Supervised Teaching of Geology and Geophysics
EPS 235 Characterization of Minerals and Rocks