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)

•  

• 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)

•  

• 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)