Geology

First Year

Second Year

Third Year

Fourth Year

Geology Group Options (Two courses from the following group)

• ERTH 4070 - Sedimentology/Stratigraphy Credit Hours: 4
• ERTH 4190 - Environmental Measurements Credit Hours: 4
• ERTH 4340 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Credit Hours: 4
• ERTH 4500 - Earth’s Climate: Past, Present and Future Credit Hours: 4
• ERTH 4540 - Organic Geochemistry Credit Hours: 4
• ERTH 4650 - Seismology Credit Hours: 4
• ERTH 4690 - Aqueous Geochemistry Credit Hours: 4
• ERTH 4710 - Groundwater Hydrology Credit Hours: 4
• ERTH 4750 - Geographic Information Systems in the Sciences Credit Hours: 4

Culminating Experience

• ERTH 4970 - Out-of-Classroom Experience in Earth Sciences Credit Hours: 2 to 4
• ERTH 4980 - Undergraduate Researh Thesis Credit Hours: 2 to 4

• Undergraduate Research Program

Electives

• BIOL 4850 - Principles of Ecology Credit Hours: 4
• CHEM 4410 - Macroscopic Physical Chemistry Credit Hours: 4
• CIVL 2630 - Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering Credit Hours: 4
• CIVL 4150 - Experimental Soil Mechanics Credit Hours: 3
• ENVE 4310 - Applied Hydrology and Hydraulics Credit Hours: 4
• ERTH 4200 - Applied Micropaleontology Credit Hours: 4
• MATH 2400 - Introduction to Differential Equations Credit Hours: 4
• MATH 4600 - Advanced Calculus Credit Hours: 4
• MATH 4700 - Foundations of Applied Mathematics Credit Hours: 4
• MATH 4800 - Numerical Computing Credit Hours: 4
• MATH 4820 - Introduction to Numerical Methods for Differential Equations Credit Hours: 4
• MTLE 2020 - Introduction to Ceramic Materials Credit Hours: 3
• MTLE 4100 - Thermodynamics of Materials Credit Hours: 4

Footnotes

1. Biology Requirement: BIOL 1010 if taken in the second year, but may be BIOL 4320 if taken in the third or fourth year.
2. With permission of the Department Head, a student may select another Math course (Course numbers MATH xxxx, MATP xxxx, or courses cross-listed with these numbers).