Bachelor of Science - Environmental Geology Concentration

The Bachelor of Science - Environmental Geology Concentration program is designed for those interested in a professional career in environmental geology, including water resources, resource management and energy resources. To obtain the B.S. degree, the student completes courses concerning minerals, rocks, landforms, fossils, structural geology, geochemistry, and field mapping, among others. These courses are supplemented by courses such as introductory chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics.  Download the Roadmap to the B.S. in Geology - Environmental Geology for the official reference to the degree program.

For additional information about our undergraduate program, please contact our undergraduate advisors, Dr. Carrie E. Schweitzer and Dr. Alison J. Smith, Dr. David M. Singer and Dr. Neil A. Wells.

General Requirements (effective academic year 2010-2011)

• At least 42 semester credits must be taken in upper division courses (30000-level and above).
  
• At least 36 semester credits must be taken in Liberal Education Requirements courses.
  
• At least 121 semester credits of approved coursework must be completed successfully.
• GEOL 21062 Environmental Geology or GEOL 21080 Oceanography may be substituted for GEOL 11040 with Departmental permission.
• Requires completion of GEOL 41092, Summer Field Camp.
  
• A 2.00 cumulative grade-point average both overall and in the major, is necessary to graduate.

Required Courses

Course Number	Course Title	Credits
GEOL 11040	Earth Dynamics	3
GEOL 11041	Earth Dynamics Lab	1
GEOL 11042	Earth History	3
GEOL 11043	Earth History Lab	1
GEOL 23063	Earth Materials I	4
GEOL 31070	Earth Materials II	4
GEOL 31080	Structural Geology	4
GEOL 32066	Geomorphology	4
GEOL 34061	Invertebrate Paleontology	4
GEOL 41092	Summer Field Camp	6
GEOL 44070	Sedimentology aStratigraphy	4
GEOL 43040	Principles of Geochemistry	3
	and   9-10 GEOL elective credits	9-10
MATH 12002	Analytic Geometry and Calculus I	5
CHEM 10060 and  CHEM 10062	General Chemistry I (4) and  General Chemistry Lab I (1)	5
CHEM 10061 and  CHEM 10063	General Chemistry II (4) and  General Chemistry Lab II (1)	5
PHY 13001 and  PHY 13021	General College Physics I (4) and  General College Physics Lab I (1)	5
GEOL 42035 or  MATH 30011	Scientific Methods in Geology (3) or  Basic Probability and Statistics (3)	5
BSCI 10110 or  BSCI 20560	Biological Diversity (4) or  Invertebrate Zoology  (4)	4
	Total	77-78

Choose from these GEOL upper division electives (9-10 credit hours)

Course Number	Course Title	Credits
GEOL 42030	Remote Sensing	3
GEOL 42067	Introductory Hydrogeology	3
GEOL 42068	Contaminant Hydrology and Hydrogeology	3
GEOL 42074	Environmental Core and Well Logging	3
GEOL 42078	Engineering Geology	4