Geology (GEOL)
| Freshman | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||
| CHEM 1030 Fundamentals Chemistry I | 3 | CHEM 1040 Fundamental Chemistry II | 3 | ||
| CHEM 1031 Fundamental Chemistry I Laboratory | 1 | CHEM 1041 Fundamental Chemistry II Laboratory | 1 | ||
| Core History I | 3 | Core History II | 3 | ||
| ENGL 1100 English Composition I | 3 | ENGL 1120 English Composition II | 3 | ||
| GEOL 1100 Dynamic Earth | 4 | GEOL 1110 Earth and Life Through Time | 4 | ||
| 14 | 14 | ||||
| Sophomore | |||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||
| BIOL 1020 Principles of Biology | 3 | BIOL 1030 Organismal Biology | 3 | ||
| BIOL 1021 Principles of Biology Laboratory | 1 | BIOL 1031 Organismal Biology Laboratory | 1 | ||
| MATH 1610 Calculus I | 4 | MATH 1620 Calculus II | 4 | ||
| GEOL 2000 Professional Development | 1 | GEOL 2050 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology | 4 | ||
| GEOL 2010 Mineralogy and Optical Crystallography | 5 | Elective | 4 | ||
| 14 | 16 | ||||
| Junior | |||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer | Hours |
| PHYS 1500 General Physics I | 4 | PHYS 1510 General Physics II | 4 | GEOL 3650 Field Camp | 6 |
| Core Fine Arts | 3 | Core Social Science2 | 3 | ||
| Technical Elective1 | 3 | GEOL 3400 Structural Geology | 4 | ||
| GEOL 3200 Introduction to Paleobiology | 3 | GEOL Elective1 | 3 | ||
| GEOL Elective1 | 3 | ||||
| 16 | 14 | 6 | |||
| Senior | |||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||
| GEOG 5830 Geographic Information Systems | 4 | Core Social Science II | 3 | ||
| GEOL 4010 Sedimentary Petrology | 3 | GEOL 4110 Stratigraphy | 3 | ||
| GEOL Elective1 | 3 | GEOL 4740 Senior Seminar | 2 | ||
| Core Humanities | 3 | GEOL Elective1 | 3 | ||
| Core literature I | 3 | Core Literature II | 3 | ||
| UNIV 4AA0 Achieve the Creed2 | 0 | ||||
| 16 | 14 | ||||
| Total Hours: 124 | |||||
Courses in BOLD will be used to calculate GPA in major.
Options for courses labeled CORE are in the Auburn University Bulletin (www.auburn.edu/bulletin) under Core Curriculum.
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Geology Electives: 12 hours required. Geology electives may be selected from the following courses with NO MORE THAN 3 hours coming from the unspecified group (4930 and 4980)
GEOL Electives:
GEOL 3060 (3) Lunar and Planetary Geology
GEOL 4210 (3) Economic Geolog
GEOL 4260 (3) Geochemistry
GEOL 5060 (3) Introduction to Micropaleontology
GEOL 5100 (3) Hydrogeology
GEOL 5220 (3) Geomorphology (also cross-listed as GEOG 5220)
GEOL 5300 (3) Basin Analysis
GEOL 5440 (3) Electron Microprobe Analysis
GEOL 5500 (3) Petroleum Geology
GEOL 5600 (4) Applied Geophysics
GEOL 5840 (3) Climate Change and Society
No more than 3 hours total can count towards your 12 hours of GEOL electives from the following:
GEOL 4930 (1-3) Various Directed Study (no more than 3 hours)
GEOL 4980 (1-3) Undergraduate Research (no more than 3 hours)
Technical Electives: The following courses are approved. Other courses may be permitted with prior approval of the GEOL advisor. Students must meet with their Geology advisor and have technical electives approved in advance. An approval form must be on file in the Dean's office in order to be cleared for graduation.
AGRN 3040, 3100, 5000, 5080, 5150, 5300
ANTH any 2000+ course
BIOL 2015, BIOL 2415, BIOL 2420, BIOL 2425, BIOL 3030, BIOL 3060, BIOL 3075, BIOL 3200, BIOL 4010, BIOL 4020
CIVL 2010, CIVL 3210, CIVL 3310, CIVL 3120, CIVL 4210, CIVL 4310, CIVL 5330, CIVL 5340
CHEM 1110/CHEM 1120, CHEM 1117/CHEM 1127, CHEM 2070, CHEM 3050, CHEM 3200, any 3000-5000 course
COMP 2200, COMP 2210, any 2000-3000 course
GEOG any 3000-5000 course
MATH any 2000-5000 course
MECH any 3000-5000 course
PHYS any 2000-5000 course
STAT any 2000-5000 course
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GEOG 1010 Global Geography is suggested for majors.