101: Earth Science for the 21st Century
Take your first steps into the world of Earth science. Learn about the planet's inner workings past, present, and future. This fall, featuring a unique paleontology lens.
Courses
DEEPS Courses Offered
DEEPS offers courses in a wide variety of subjects, from the Earth's interior to its weather and climate, environmental disasters to sedimentary geology, programming in python to field methodology, and many other topics under the sun (or maybe in a cave). Read about featured courses below, or skip to viewing all courses offered during the 2026-2027 academic year.
Featured Courses
Explore a sampling of some of our course offerings
106: The Ocean, the Atmosphere and Our Climate
Get to know the role of oceans in the earth's climate system through class-time field trips to the beaches of Lake Michigan.
210: Earth Systems Science and Climate Change
Discover how the Earth works on a systems level and how diverse systems interact to create our habitable planet.
215: Physics of the Earth's Interior
Take a look under the hood and learn all about plate tectonics, seismic waves, earthquakes, Earth's composition, and more. Understand and visualize data connected to real-world results.
390: Special Topics: Hydrogeology
Explore the flow of groundwater through ecosystems and its response to climate change and human activities, working with real datasets to develop an individual research poster.
313: Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry
Use your understanding of chemistry to discover the application of radiogenic isotopes in methods including radioactive decay, nucleosynthesis, cosmochemistry, geochronology, mixing processes, and numerical modeling.
373: Microbial Ecology
Discover the role of microbes in natural environments: their cell numbers, metabolisms, and interactions with geochemical cycles enabling microbial populations, organisms, and even our own bodies to thrive.
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