Master of Science in Geology

30 credits

Degree requirements

Requires 30 credits of graduate courses. Each student must register for the 1-credit Research Colloquium during each fall and spring semester of full-time graduate study, and write a thesis, which fulfills 6 credits of the 30-credit requirement. In a normal course of study, students are required to determine the thesis topic by the end of the second semester. The completed thesis document is subject to approval by the committee following a public oral defense.

Geology seminar requirement, 9 credits from

GEOL 605	Seminar in Stratigraphy	3
GEOL 610	Seminar Sedimentary Petrology	3
GEOL 626	Seminar in Tectonics	3
GEOL 660	Seminar in Hydrogeology	3
GEOL 670	Seminar in Envir Geochemistry	3
GEOL 671	Seminar in Geomorphology	3
Total Credits:		9

Thesis requirement

THES 698	Thesis	1 TO 6
Total Credits:		6

Approved graduate electives in geology, including up to three credits from GEOL 500

Total Credits:

6

Approved major or minor in a second discipline or GEOL and/or other approved electives

Total Credits:

9

Total Credits: 30