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Geology BS



Overview

The Geology Bachelor of Science (B.S.) program involves a broad curriculum that prepares students for employment immediately after graduation or for more advanced graduate study in the geosciences. For those students that pursue advanced degrees in geoscience, the undergraduate major prepares them for a wide range of fields, including hydrology and environmental geology, geochemistry and biogeochemistry, igneous and metamorphic petrology, structural geology and tectonics, stratigraphy and sedimentary geology, paleontology, economic geology, geophysics, and archaeological geology.

Lab and Field Exercises: Core classes involve extensive lab work that provides crucial hands-on experience. Field exercises are standard in most core classes and form an indispensable link between lectures and real world observations and analyses. Students may examine coastal processes and organisms on Georgia's barrier islands, the outstanding mineral assemblages at Grave's Mountain in the Inner Piedmont, major fault systems in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the rich fossil assemblages and ancient depositional environments preserved in rocks of the Valley and Ridge and Cumberland Plateau.

Summer Field Courses: Some courses take place entirely in the field, including the department's six-week summer field school (required for the B.S. and the A.B. degree), based in Canon City, Colorado. Projects include field mapping in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, pollution monitoring of streams in the Colorado Plateau, and field trips to Utah and New Mexico. Students gain valuable experience with traditional and computer-based mapping tools, with GIS, and with geochemical analyses. Other, optional, summer field programs include the Honors Interdisciplinary Summer Field Program in Geology, Anthropology, and Ecology, and the study-abroad program in Argentina.

Contact

Dr. Rob Hawman Professor and Undergraduate Advisor (for students with last names beginning with A-J) Room B6, Geography-Geology Building rob@seismo.gly.uga.edu (706) 542-2398

Dr. Doug Crowe Professor and Undergraduate Advisor (for students with last names beginning with K-Z) Room 301B, Geography-Geology Building dcrowe@uga.edu (706) 542-2382

Four-Year Program of Study

Four-Year Program of Study

The following program of study provides a path for students to complete this degree program in four years.

Fall Year 1

Area IV World Language & Global Culture

CHEM 1211-1211D  General Chemistry I 3
    AND  CHEM 1211L  General Chemistry Laboratory I 1
ENGL 1101  English Composition I 3
GEOL 1121  Earth Processes and Environments 3
    AND  GEOL 1121L  Earth Processes and Environments Laboratory 1
MATH 1113  Precalculus 3
Spring Year 1

Area II Life Science

Area IV World Language & Global Culture

ENGL 1102  English Composition II 3
FYOS 1001  First-Year Odyssey Seminar 1
GEOL 1122  Earth’s History of Life and Global Change 3
    AND  GEOL 1122L  Earth's History of Global Change Laboratory 1
Summer Year 1

N/A

Fall Year 2

Area IV World Language & Global Culture

GEOL 3010-3010L  Earth Materials 4
GEOL 3020-3020L  Surficial and Near-Surficial Processes 4
MATH 2250  (Area III) Calculus I for Science and Engineering 4
Spring Year 2

Area IV Humanities and Arts

GEOL 4060/6060-4060L/6060L  Structural Geology 4
GEOL 4500/6500-4500L/6500L  Sedimentary Geology 3
MATH 2260  (Area VI) Calculus II for Science and Engineering 4
Summer Year 2
GEOL 4270/6270  Geology Field School 6
Fall Year 3

Area V Social Science other than History

Fine Arts/Philosophy/Religion (Franklin)

GEOL 4010-4010L  Life and Ecologies of the Past 3

Literature (Franklin College)

Spring Year 3

Area V History

Fine Arts/Philosophy/Religion (Franklin)

General Elective

GEOL 4020-4020L  Internal Earth Processes 3
GEOL 4950/6950  Geology Seminar 1
Summer Year 3

N/A

Fall Year 4

General Elective (upper level)

General Elective (upper level)

GEOL 4950/6950  Geology Seminar 1

Major Elective

Multicultural (Franklin)

Spring Year 4

Area V Social Science other than History

General Elective

Major Elective

PEDB

PHYS 1211-1211L  Principles of Physics for Scientists and Engineers-Mechanics, Waves, Thermodynamics 4
Summer Year 4

University-Wide Requirements

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