Severe and Unusual Weather (METEO 5) provides a current, relevant, and scientifically accurate description of a wide range of severe and unusual weather.  The four major themes are: hazardous cold-season phenomena (such as blizzards), hazardous warm-season weather (such as thunderstorms), hazardous weather triggered by mountains, and unusual atmospheric optical phenomena such as rainbows and halos.

Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 15) an intensive, rhetorically based experience in reading and writing that will prepare you both to understand the communications that surround you and to succeed in your own communication efforts. Thus, in this course, we will focus specifically on analyzing verbal and visual texts (our reading) as well as on producing such texts (our writing), always in terms of rhetorical principles. ENGL 15 fulfills 3 credits of the writing and speaking requirement for general education.