2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Major in Environmental Geoscience (BA/BS)

68 credits

Core requirements, 56 credits

BIO 112Principles of Biology 2

4

BIO 216Ecology

3

CHEM 111General Chemistry 1

4

CHEM 112General Chemistry 2

4

GEOG 265Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

3

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 315Structural Geology

4

GEOL 350Physical Hydrology

3

GEOL 461Hydrogeology

3

MATH 181Elementary Probability and Statistics

3

METC 230Elementary Meteorology

3

NREM 221Soil Resources

3

6 credits from

GEOL 310Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

3

GEOL 383Field Geology

6

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 462Environmental Geology in the Field and Laboratory

3

GEOL 470Groundwater Geochemistry

3

GEOL 471Volcanology and Volcanic Hazards

3

GEOL 475Glacial Geology

3

NREM 331Energy and Mineral Resources: Issues and Choices

3

6 credits from

EMHS 350Hazardous Materials Health and Safety

3

GEOG 436Introduction to Remote Sensing

3

METC 331Global Climatology

3

NREM 320Wetland Characterization

3

NREM 324Soil Classification and Interpretation

3

Total Credit Hours: 68