Undergraduate Bulletin 2011-2013 » Academic Departments and Programs » Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences » 28-29 Credit Major in Earth Science, B.A.
28-29 Credit Major in Earth Science, B.A.
This program is recommended to teacher education students. The required credits are distributed as follows:
16 credits in required courses:
GEO 101 Dynamic Earth (3 hours, 3 credits)
GEO 102 Dynamic Earth Laboratory (2 hours, 1 credit)
GEO 167 Earth Evolution (3 hours, 3 credits)
GEO 168 Earth Evolution Laboratory (2 hours, 1 credit)
GEO 228 Weather and Climate (3 hours, 3 credits)
GEO 229 Weather and Climate Laboratory (2 hours, 1 credits)
GEO 245 Earth Materials (5 hours, 4 credits)
8 credits in to be chosen from the following courses:
GEO 236 Environmental Geology (4 credits)
GEO 340 Natural Hazards and Disasters (3 hours, 3 credits) and GEO 341 Natural Hazards and Disasters (2 hours, 1 credit)
GEO 345 Environmental Hydrology (4 credits)
GEO 350 Topics in Regional Geology and Mapping Techniques (4 credits)
GEO 448 Plate Tectonics (4 credits)
AST 136 Astronomy of the Solar System (5 hours, 4 credits)
(Other courses may be substituted for elective requirements with department permission.)
4-5 credits in a related science or mathematics to be chosen from the following:
BIO 167 Principals of Biology (4 credits)
CHE 166 General Chemistry I (3 credits) and CHE 167 General Chemistry Laboratory I (2 credits)
MAT 123 A Problem-Solving Approach to Mathematics (4 credits) or MAT 132 Introduction to Statistics (4 credits)
PHY 166 General Physics I (5 credits)
(Other courses may be substituted for related science or mathematics requirements with department permission.)
Last modified: 2/22/2013
