his course is designed for the third and fourth grade undergraduate or graduate students whose major are not in the Geosciences. The content of this class includes Earth & Ocean, historical development in marine geology, sea floor morphology, undersea topography around Taiwan Island, geophysical exploration, magnetic anomaly, paleo-magnetism, sea-floor spreading, plate tectonics, oceanic crust, continental margin, coast an beaches, classification and distribution of oceanic sediments, and sediment coring and sampling.