Updated 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog | 20265
Geology minor
Multiple Credentials
Any additional major, minor or certificate in a degree must have at least 6 credits of course work not used to meet the requirements of another major, minor or certificate in the degree.
Any additional major, minor or certificate in a degree must have at least 6 credits of course work not used to meet the requirements of another major, minor or certificate in the degree.
Required Credits: 18
Required GPA: 2.00
I REQUIRED COURSES
Complete the following courses:
- GEOL 1110 Physical Geology (4 credits)
orGEOL 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)
orBIOL 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)