This course introduces the history of oceanography, the origin of the earth-its oceans and life in the ocean, marine provinces, the origin of ocean basins-global plate tectonics, marine sediments, the nature of water, air-sea interaction, ocean circulation, waves, tides, the shore, the coastal ocean, the marine habitat, biological productivity-energy transfer, animal of the pelagic environment, animal of the benthic environments, food from the ocean, and marine pollution.