Our faculty offer courses sharing their expertise and enthusiasm with DEEPS concentrators and non-concentrators alike. Most courses offer class discussions/oral presentations, laboratory exercises, and/or field trips that enable students to engage with the course material in a group setting. These courses can be an enjoyable and meaningful part of a liberal arts education at Brown, in part thanks to the Department's strong focus on developing students' communication and critical thinking skills.
If you are considering one of the DEEPS concentrations, EEPS 0220 (taught in semester I) provides an overview of Earth science and is a foundation course in all our concentrations.
DEEPS is active in developing and providing First Year Seminars, which emphasize interdisciplinary pursuits that reach beyond the physical and biological sciences into the humanities and social sciences. These First Year seminars offer such varied course topics as Global Environmental Change; Natural Disasters; Patterns in Nature, in Society; Volcanoes: Windows Into the Deep Earth; and Monsters of the Abyss: Oceanography and Sea Tales.