Earth Science Bachelor of Arts degree

Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Earth Science

Core Program:

32 to 34 credit hours in geosciences; 25 to 29 credit hours in related disciplines

GEO 165	Geology I	3
GEO 169	General Geology Lab	1
GEO 210	Geology II	3
GEO 215	Minerals and Rocks	4
GEO 370	Structural Geology	4
GEO 459	Seminar in Geosciences	1

Two of the following four courses:

GEO 150	Moons and Planets	3
GEO 160	Oceanography	3
GEO 311	Global Climate	3
GEO 341	Stars and Galaxies	3

An additional writing-intensive course, chosen from

GEO 330	Geomorphology	4
GEO 335	Geophysics	4
GEO 400	Stratigraphy	4
	One additional course with lab in Geology at the 300-level or 400-level
	A course in Geographic Information Systems
CHEM 115	General Chemistry Lecture I	3
CHEM 116	General Chemistry Lecture II	3
MATH 120	Survey of Calculus I	3
	or
MATH 122	University Calculus I	4
PHYS 230	University Physics I	4
	and
PHYS 231	University Physics II	4
	or
PHYS 121	College Physics I	3
	and
PHYS 122	College Physics II	3
	An additional course in Mathematics
	A course in Statistics at the 200-level or higher
	or
	A course in computer programming