The 8th Symposium on Education

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PROVIDING NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN UNDERGRADUATE METEOROLOGY EDUCATION- AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

Claude E. Duchon, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK



Leaders in the private sector of meteorology have stressed the need for their new B.S. employees to have an understanding of areas of study outside of, but related to, meteorology. In response, the School of Meteorology has recently designed and implemented three different undergraduate programs, called Areas of Concentration, in the Colleges of Business, Engineering, and Architecture. The Areas of Concentration in the respective colleges are Business and Management Information Systems, Computer Science, and Weather Influence on Architectural Design. Twelve credit hours in our standard meteorology curriculum are exchanged for 12 credit hours in each Area of Concentration. The credit exchange is valid only when all the course requirements in the Area of Concentration are fulfilled. Satisfactory completion of the requirements is noted on the student's transcript. I will describe the courses in each Area of Concentration and the way in which they were selected, procedures for obtaining university approval of these programs, and some issues associated with meteorology students taking upper division courses in other degree programs.


The 8th Symposium on Education