Courses
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) at CU-Boulder offeres a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses. Below are brief descriptions of all courses offered by ATOC. The links to the right provide details on courses offered this semester, next semester, and courses approved for the Natural Science requirement of the College of Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum. Please refer to the University Catalog for further details.
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Undergraduate Courses
Enrollment is managed through Extraordinary Programs, Office of Continuing Education, University of Colorado Boulder. This class is held offsite: Aurora, CO (classroom and labs at CU Anschutz Medical Campus) and Golden, CO (field site at Camp Granite Lake). Each session of this course spans 13 consecutive days including the weekend in between. The course is offered in three sessions per year: late May/early June, August, and January. The schedule on most days starts at 8:00 AM and ends late in the evening (see complete sample schedule below). The course involves 51 contact hours of classroom instruction during the first week, followed by a week in the field. Total contact hours estimated at 135.
Karnauskas (Associate Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) and Lemery (Associate Professor, Dept. of Emergency Medicine and Section Chief, Wildnerness and Environmental Medicine) serve as course Co-Directors. Prof. Karnauskas serves as the Instructor for students enrolled for undergraduate credit through CU Boulder Continuing Education. Other instructors based out of CU Anschutz include Elaine Reno, M.D. (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Emergency Medicine) and Todd Miner, Ed.D.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructors.
More information: https://www.coloradowm.org/courses/pre-med/colorado-emergency-wilderness-medicine/
Graduate Courses
NOTE: Most ATOC graduate level courses require one year of college chemistry and calculus-based physics, and math up through differential equations.