PHSC 114 - Weather Phenomena

3 credits (2 lecture, 2 lab)
This course is an introduction to meteorology for non-science students. Topics included are atmosphere composition, processes causing weather phenomena, elements of weather forecasting, short and long term conditions causing weather/climate change, optical phenomena of the atmosphere and interpretation of weather maps. Conditions permitting, a field trip is included showing the methods used to collect weather data. This course meets the General Education competency of Scientific Reasoning (SR).