Academic Year:
DEGREE: BACHELOR OF ARTS
MAJOR: GEOLOGY
These university-level, college-level and breadth requirements apply to all programs is the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.
UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS
COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS
A second writing course involving significant writing experience including two papers with a combined minimum of 3,000 words to be submitted for extended faculty critique of both composition and content. This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours. Appropriate writing courses are normally designated on the registrar's course search page.
| Foreign Language (minimum grade of D-) |
0-12 |
Completion of the intermediate-level course (107 or 112 or 214) in a given language. Number of credits needed and initial placement will depend on number of years of high school study of foreign language. Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination.
| Mathematics: (one of the following four options with a minimum grade of D-) |
0-4 |
OPTION ONE:
| MATH 113 |
Contemporary Mathematics (designed for students who
do not intend to continue the study of mathematics) |
| or |
|
| MATH 127 |
Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning |
OPTION TWO:
| MATH 114 |
College Mathematics and Statistics (designed for students who
do not intend to continue the study of mathematics) |
| or |
|
| MATH 115 |
Pre-Calculus (designed for students who intend to continue the
study of mathematics) |
| or |
|
| MATH 117 |
Pre-Calculus for Scientists and Engineers |
OPTION THREE:
Successful completion of any mathematics course at or above the 200-level except MATH 201, MATH 202, MATH 205, MATH 250, MATH 251, MATH 252, MATH 253, MATH 266, MATH 300 or MATH 450.
OPTION FOUR:
Successful performance on a proficiency test in mathematics administered by the Department of Mathematical Sciences. (0 credits awarded)
COLLEGE BREADTH REQUIREMENTS
These requirements apply to all College of Earth, Ocean & Environment Bachelor of Arts degrees. College breadth courses when combined with University breadth courses must represent at least two departments or appropriate instructional units in each category.
If the grade earned is sufficient, a course may be applied toward more than one requirement (e.g., breadth and major requirements), but the credits are counted only once toward the total credits for graduation. If all but one course in a group has been taken in one department or program, a course cross-listed with that program will not satisfy the distribution requirement.
Understanding and appreciation of the visual and performing arts, of aesthetic forms, designs, or craftsmanship, or of literary, philosophical, and intellectual traditions. Courses may focus on a single aesthetic form or intellectual tradition, or cross-cultural comparisons.
Understanding of the sources and forces of historical changes in ideas, beliefs, institutions, and cultures. Courses may address social, cultural, intellectual, economic, technological, artistic, scientific, and political development, changes in a discipline, or globalization and its effects.
Understanding of the behavior of individuals and social groups in the context of their human and natural environments. Courses emphasize the empirical findings, applications, and methods of the social and behavioral sciences.
Understanding of fundamental and/or applied concepts and phenomena from mathematics, logic, natural or physical sciences, and technology including quantitative reasoning and methods used to approach and solve problems.
Courses taken to fulfill this category (university and college breadth) must include a minimum of one course with an associated laboratory
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS:
One of the following:
and
| GEOL 300 |
Earth's Materials I: Minerals |
4 |
| GEOL 302 |
Earth's Materials II: Rocks |
4 |
| GEOL 303 |
Earth's Surface I: Surficial Processes |
4 |
| GEOL 304 |
Earth's Surface II: Stratigraphy |
4 |
| GEOL 305 |
Earth Lithosphere I: Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics |
4 |
| GEOL 306 |
Earth's Lithosphere II: Field Geology |
4 |
| GEOL 307 |
Earth's History I: Paleobiology |
4 |
| GEOL 308 |
Earth's History II: Earth System Science |
4 |
| CHEM 103 |
General Chemistry I |
4 |
| CHEM 104 |
General Chemistry II |
4 |
| PHYS 201 |
Introductory Physics I |
4 |
| PHYS 202 |
Introductory Physics II |
4 |
ELECTIVES
After required courses are completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.
| CREDITS TO TOTAL A MINIMUM OF |
124 |
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