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2015 - 2016 Undergraduate Catalog

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2015 - 2016 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Geology, General Geology Concentration, BS

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Required Credit Hours: 36

(or more, depending on options)

Major Computing Requirement:

GEOL 492 - Senior Research (1) or
GEOL 496 - Honors (3)

Major Writing Requirement:

Students must receive a grade of C- or better to satisfy the requirement.

GEOL 492 - Senior Research (1) or
GEOL 496 - Honors (3)

Core Requirements:

A core for all majors consisting of nine semester courses totalling 25 or more credits, which are:

GEOL 101 - The Dynamic Earth: Physical Geology (3) or
GEOL 110 - Earth’s Environmental Systems: Physical Geography (3) or
GEOL 160 - Investigating the Earth: Introductory Geology Laboratory (1)
GEOL 320 - Earth Surface Processes (4)
GEOL 321 - Rock-Forming Minerals (4)
GEOL 322 - The Sedimentary Record (4)
GEOL 323 - Earth Structure & Dynamics (4)
GEOL 403 - Introduction to Geological Research I (1)
GEOL 404 - Introduction to Geological Research II (1)
GEOL 491 - Senior Research (3) and
GEOL 492 - Senior Research (1)
or
GEOL 495 - Honors (3) and
GEOL 496 - Honors (3)

Choose (two courses and associated laboratories) from the following list of five choices:

CHEM 103 - General Chemistry I (3) and
CHEM 103L - General Chemistry Laboratory I (1)
CHEM 206 - Organic Chemistry I (3) and
CHEM 206L - Organic Chemistry Laboratory I (1)
CHEM 308 - General Chemistry II for Life Sciences (3) and
CHEM 354 - General Chemistry Laboratory II (1)
PHYS 101 - General Physics I (3) and
PHYS 101L - General Physics I Laboratory (1)
PHYS 102 - General Physics II (3) and
PHYS 102L - General Physics II Laboratory (1)

Additional Information:

A year of calculus, a year of chemistry, and year of physics, and a field camp experience are recommended for a career in the earth sciences.

The Geology Option:

Elective courses totaling at least eleven credits selected from:

GEOL 303 - Age of Dinosaurs (3)
GEOL 305 - Environmental Geology (3)
GEOL 307 - Planetary Geology (3)
GEOL 310 - Regional Field Geology (1-3)
GEOL 311 - Field Methods in the Earth Sciences (3)
GEOL 312 - Weather, Climate, and Change (3)
GEOL 314 - Watershed Dynamics (4) or
GEOL 315 - Hydrology (4)
GEOL 316 - Environmental Geochemistry (3)
GEOL 422 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (3)
GEOL 423 - Paleontology (3)
GEOL 424 - Sedimentology Seminar (1-3)
GEOL 425 - Structural Geology Seminar (1-3)
GEOL 426 - Paleobiology Seminar (1-3)
GEOL 427 - Surface Processes Seminar (1-3)
GEOL 428 - Geochemistry Seminar (1-3)
GEOL 429 - Hydrology Seminar (1-3)
GEOL 437 - Special Topics Seminar (1-3)
INTR 204 - GIS In the Earth and Environmental Sciences (3)
MSCI 401C - Fundamentals of Marine Geology (2) and
MSCI 401R - Fundamentals of Marine Science Recitation (1)