Required Credit Hours: 36

(or more, depending on options)

Major Computing Requirement:

• GEOL 492 - Senior Research (2) 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 (2) or
• † GEOL 496 - Honors (3)

Core Requirements:

A core for all majors consisting of nine semester courses totaling 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 150W - Freshman Seminar in Geology (4)
• 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 404 - Introduction to Geological Research (1)

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• GEOL 491 - Senior Research (2) and
• GEOL 492 - Senior Research (2)

• or

• † GEOL 495 - Honors (3) and
• † GEOL 496 - Honors (3)

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)

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• GEOL 314 - Watershed Dynamics (4) or
• GEOL 315 - Hydrology (4)

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• 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)