Already! Only one week between finals week and the start of the first of my summer term classes at PSU. It lasts eight weeks (three weeks shorter than a normal term) and is completely online, including all texts/articles. There is an extra small fee for it being online (that has never made any sense to me. It's cheaper too do an online class by far. Why do we pay more?) but textbooks can be expensive so I'm OK with it.
The class is GEOG 311U Climatology. There is a prerequisite of GEOG 201, which I don't have but was able to register for the class anyway, with permission from an Extended Services administrator (I'd rather not even explain what that means). This class has nothing to do with the geography minor I'm trying to get, but it does fulfill the last of the three cluster classes that I needed for my bachelor's degree. I was originally intending to go with the Sustainability cluster, but the two classes I already finished (Environmental Ethics and Environment & History) also applied to two other clusters. The other clusters were Freedom, Privacy, and Technology AND Global Environmental Change, the latter being the cluster I have settled on. Having three clusters to choose from left me a lot more freedom to choose the last class I needed (your cluster can be changed at any time). I looked at the classes available online over the summer and decided this one sounded the most interesting to me. Several others were hard to pass up. The first month will be easy. The last month will be much harder because my second class starts then.
Here is the decidedly vague description of the class from the catalog - A study fo the physical processes which comprise the climatic system, from the global scale to the local scale. Particular attention is given to the nature of climatic variability, its causes, and its implications for human activity.
Class starts on Friday morning at 9am.
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