Updated 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog | 20265

Geology minor

Required Credits: 18
Required GPA: 2.00

I REQUIRED COURSES

Complete the following courses:

• GEOL 1110 Physical Geology (4 credits)
  or GEOL 1120 Intro to Fossils and History of Planet Earth (4 credits)
• GEOL 2110 Crystals, Minerals and Rocks (4 credits)
• GEOL 3600 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (3 credits)

II REQUIRED ELECTIVES

Select 7-8 additional credits from the following:

• GEOL 2730 Introduction to Planetary Science (4 credits)
• GEOL 3120 Soils (4 credits)
  or BIOL 3120 Soils (4 credits)
• GEOL 3211 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3212 Hydrogeology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3400 Glacial and Pleistocene Geology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3500 Topics in Paleontology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3700 Environmental Geophysics (3 credits)
• GEOL 4300 Global Environmental Change (3 credits)
• GEOL 4910 Directed Independent Study (3 credits)
• GEOG 3226 Cartography (3 credits)