Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 5A · IGETC Area 5A · CSU GE Area B1DescriptionThis course surveys the science of whole Earth inquiry and thereby includes the following topics: Scientific method, Earth systems, Earth materials, internal processes, surface processes, oceans, atmosphere, Earth origins, and Earth history. Students are introduced to important contributions to the study of these topics from the fields of geography, geology, oceanography, chemistry, astronomy, physics, and biology with special attention to the cycling of elements such as Carbon through Earth systems within the organizing paradigms of contributory disciplines such as Plate Tectonic Theory, the Theory of Evolution, and the Big Bang. 