2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Major in Geology (BA/BS)

67-69 credits

Required Courses (51 Credits)

CHEM 111General Chemistry 1

4

CHEM 112General Chemistry 2

4

GEOL 101Planet Earth's Geological Environment

3

GEOL 105Laboratory in Physical Geology

1

GEOL 201Earth, Life, and Time

3

GEOL 207Environmental Geology - Geological/Geochemical Cycles

3

GEOL 220Earth Materials

3

GEOL 240Geomorphology

3

GEOL 308Sedimentary Geology

3

GEOL 310Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

3

GEOL 315Structural Geology

4

GEOL 350Physical Hydrology

3

GEOL 383Field Geology

6

PHYC 110General Physics 1

4

PHYC 112General Physics 2

4

12 credits from Advanced Geology Courses

GEOL 409Micropaleontology

3

GEOL 411Advanced Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

3

GEOL 412Sedimentary Petrology

3

GEOL 413Experimental Petrology

3

GEOL 416Geology of Hazards and the Environment

3

GEOL 420Oceanography

3

GEOL 425Geophysics

3

GEOL 434Applied Biostratigraphy

3

GEOL 435Sequence Stratigraphy

3

GEOL 440Karst Environments and Carbonate Geology

3

GEOL 461Hydrogeology

3

GEOL 462Environmental Geology in the Field and Laboratory

3

GEOL 470Groundwater Geochemistry

3

GEOL 471Volcanology and Volcanic Hazards

3

GEOL 475Glacial Geology

3

4-6 credits in Mathematical Sciences

MATH 161Applied Calculus 1

3

MATH 181Elementary Probability and Statistics

3

MATH 165Calculus 1

4

Take either MATH161 and MATH 181, or take MATH 165

Total Credit Hours: 67-69