Not as much as I thought I might*, but I had studied a fair chunk of what is supposed to be the hardest part of the course beforehand - I spent 50% of the fourth year of my physics degree doing the Physics of Atmospheres and Oceans, and that was way harder than S330 (which had minimal maths). Oceanography is multidisciplinary, so you have to be able to do physics, chemistry, geology and biology, but I reckon A-level standard is plenty good enough as a background. I took S180 concurrently to help me with the biology (I last did it as part of GCSE combined science over a decade ago).
*They have dire and terrible warnings about not doing it without adequate preparation, and I ignored them and took it anyway.
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Date: December 12th, 2007 05:18 pm (UTC)From:*They have dire and terrible warnings about not doing it without adequate preparation, and I ignored them and took it anyway.