Undergraduate
Curriculum
| GSC 110 Physical Earth Systems | 4 |
| GSC 111 Earth History | 4 |
| GSC 260 Earth Materials | 4 |
| GSC 360Depositional Systems | 4 |
| One of: GSC 410 Geochemistry | 3 |
| or GSC 514 Geophysics | |
| GSC 480 Structure | 4 |
| GSC 482 Field Methods | 2 |
| GSC 574 Colloquium | 1 |
| Core Courses | 26 Total |
| Additional requirement for B.Sc. Degree: | |
| GSC 580 Field Geology | 4 |
Elective courses allow concentration in areas described below.
| Credit Hours Electives | Total Credit Hours for Major | |
| For B.Sc. Degree | 9 | 39 |
| For Marine Science/Geological Science Double Major & 5 yr. B.Sc./M.S. | 6 | 36 |
| For B.A. | 3 | 29 |
Sedimentary Processes, Paleontology & Paleoecology: For students preparing for graduate study and professional careers in surficial processes; stratigraphy; coastal zone environments and processes; biotic-substrate interactions; paleoenvironmental reconstruction, historical evolution of environments, documentation of effects of pollution and anthropogenic changes on the environment, landscape and seascape evolution. Elective courses include: Advanced Sedimentary Processes, Paleontology, Micropaleontology, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, Facies Models and Basin Analysis, Diagenesis of Carbonate Sediments, Environmental Remote Sensing, Fluxes of Energy and Matter in the Earth's System, and Scanning Electron Microscopy.
Environmental Earth Science and Hydrogeology: For students preparing for graduate study, professional careers and management/policy careers in landscape/coastal-zone/ocean bottom management, geohazard mitigation, groundwater movement and resources, pollutant migration and containment, radioactive waste storage, and processes affecting water quality and quantity. Elective courses include: Hydrogeology, Environmental Remote Sensing, Isotopes and Nuclear Geology, and Fluxes of Energy and Matter in the Earth's System.
Structure, Tectonics and Geophysics For students preparing for graduate study and professional careers in dynamics of the Earth's crust, detecting and monitoring active geologic processes, economic geology, and geohazard mitigation. Elective courses include: Continental Structure and Tectonics, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Applied Environmental Geophysics, Plate Tectonics, Environmental Remote Sensing, and Fluxes of Energy and Matter in the Earth's System.
Petrology, Volcanology & Geochemistry For students preparing for graduate study and professional careers in studies of formation and differentiation of the Earth's interior, volcanology, economic geology, and high- and low-temperature geochemistry. Elective courses include: Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Economic Geology, Isotopes and Nuclear Geology, Rock Forming Minerals, Volcanoes and Society, and Fluxes of Energy and Matter in the Earth's System.
