This course is designed to provide undergraduate students in materials science and engineering an introduction to degradation of metals and alloys at both low and high temperatures. The fundamentals of electrochemistry and electrode kinetics pertinent to metallic corrosion, corrosion control, gas-metal reactions, and mechanisms and kinetics of oxidation are presented. Topics include: Introduction to corrosion and oxidation, review on electrochemistry, pourbaix diagrams, corrosion kinetics, mixed potential theory, passivity, predicting corrosion behavior, corrosion rate measurements, galvanic corrosion, localized corrosion, stress, corrosion, hydrogen damages, corrosion prevention, mechanisms and kinetics of oxidation, alloy oxidation, other metal gas reactions.