Geoscience Undergrad Core Courses

100-level course work

Most of the 200-level classes have pre-requisites of introductory courses such as GEOL103/105 or BIO107. See course catalog for more details.

200-level course work

All of the following courses are required for the Integrative Geosciences Major (16 cr total):

GEOL250 - Earth History and Global Change (3cr)
GEOL251 - Earth Surface Processes (3cr)
GEOL252 - Earth Structure (3cr)
GEOL253 - Earth Materials (4cr)
GEOL290W - Geoscience and Society (capstone course to be taken last semester of study - 3cr)

Choose one course from the following group (3 or 4cr):

GEOL228 - Applied Geophysics for Geologists and Engineers (3cr)
GEOL229 - Engineerign and Environmental Geology (3cr)
GEOL234 - Introduction to Ground-Water Hydrology (4cr)

Choose one course from the following group (3 or 4cr):

GEOG246 - Introduction to GIS (4cr)
NRME219 - Introduction to Geomatics (4cr)
NRME277 - Natural Resource Applications of GIS (3cr)

Total credits: 22 to 24

In addition to these required courses for all geoscience majors, students must choose an individualized track to follow and take the coursework specific for that track. See the following links for more details on each track we currently offer:

Geobiology

Earth Surface Processes

Physics of the Earth