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Geology minor
A Minor in Geology consists of 18 hours selected from the list below. Six of those 18 hours must be upperdivision (3000 or 4000 level)
Course Number Course title Prerequisites
GEOL 1425 Earth Systems None
GEOL 1426 Earth History GEOL 1425
GEOL 2404 Geologic Hazards GEOL 1425
GEOL 2445 Mineralogy GEOL 1425, CHEM 1441, MATH 1303
GEOL 2446 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology and Petrography GEOL 2445
Upper Division Courses
GEOL 3184 Oceanography Laboratory concurrent registration in GEOL 3301 or permission of instructor
GEOL 3185 Meteorology Laboratory concurrent registration in GEOL 3305 or permission of instructor
GEOL 3301 Introduction to Oceanography six hours of science and junior standing, or permission of instructor
GEOL 3305 Introduction to Meteorology and Climatology six hours of science and junior standing, or permission of instructor
GEOL 3387 Field Geology I GEOL 2446, 3442, 3443
GEOL 3388 Field Geology II GEOL 2446, 3442, 3443, 3387
GEOL 3402 Dinosaurs GEOL 1425
GEOL 3403 Volcanoes and Volcanic Processes GEOL 1425
GEOL 3441 Paleontology GEOL 1425, BIOL 1442
GEOL 3442 Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Petrology and Petrography GEOL 2446 (or concurrent enrollment) and 3441 or permission of instructor
GEOL 3443 Structural Geology GEOL 2446, 3442 (or concurrent enrollment), and PHYS1441, or permission of instructor
GEOL 4302 Plate Tectonics GEOL 3443
GEOL 4308 Enviornmental Geochemistry GEOL 2445 and 3443, CHEM 1441
GEOL 4320 Hydrogeology GEOL 3443 and MATH 2325 or permission of instructor
GEOL 4330 Understanding Geographic Information Systems junior standing or permission of instructor
GEOL 4331 Analysis of Spatial Data GEOL 4330, junior standing, or permission of instructor
GEOL 4332 Global Positioning Systems GEOL 4330, junior standing, or permission of instructor
GEOL 4333 Remote Sensing Fundamentals GEOL 4330, junior standing, or permission of instructor
GEOL 4334 Geographic Data Analysis GEOL 4330, 4331, 4332, 4333