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Admissions

All Graduate School students must utilize the Graduate Student Portal in MyUW to add, change, or discontinue any doctoral minor. To apply to this minor, log in to MyUW, click on Graduate Student Portal, and then click on Add/Change Programs. Select the information for the doctoral minor for which you are applying.

ATM OCN courses assume a prerequisite background in college physics (two semesters), calculus (three semesters), and chemistry (one semester).

Requirements

The graduate chair or any other professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences may serve as a minor professor on a PhD committee. The graduate chair will certify that the minor course requirements have been met.

Required Courses

The minor requirement is 9 or more credits of any ATM OCN courses numbered 400 or above. Overall GPA for the minor must be at least 3.0.