Geology (B.S.)
Administered by Geography and Geosciences
Effective Fall, 2006
The Geology major requires 46 to 48 semester hours of Geoscience courses and 22 semester hours of supporting math and science courses, of which 15 semester hours count towards general education requirements.
Required courses:
GEOSCI.120 Physical Geology
GEOSCI.121 Physical Geology Laboratory (taken concurrently with GEOSCI.120)
GEOSCI.130 Historical Geology
GEOSCI.131 Historical Geology Laboratory (taken concurrently with GEOSCI.130)
GEOSCI.261 Mineralogy
GEOSCI.262 Petrology
GEOSCI.265 Geomorphology
GEOSCI.360 Introduction to Paleontology
GEOSCI.368 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation
GEOSCI.369 Structural Geology
GEOSCI.451 Field Techniques in Earth Science or equivalent 4 to 6 semester hours field course
GEOSCI.460 Aqueous Chemistry or GEOSCI.480 Geophysics
GEOSCI.470 Groundwater Hydrology
GEOSCI.480 Applied Geophysics
GEOSCI.493 Senior Research in Geosciences
Choose one of the following two sets of courses:
MATH.123 Essentials of Calculus and MATH.141 Introduction to Statistics
or
MATH.125 Analysis I and MATH.126 Analysis II
Choose two of the following three courses:
CHEM.115 Chemistry for Sciences I
CHEM.116 Chemistry for Sciences II
CHEM.231 Organic Chemistry I
Choose one of the following two sets of courses:
PHYSICS.111 Introductory Physics I and PHYSICS.112 Introductory Physics II
or
PHYSICS.211 General Physics I and PHYSICS.212 General Physics II
Note: GEOSCI.480 Applied Geophysics may be substituted for the second semester of physics.