Geology — Earth System Science Option (ESYS)
| Freshman | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 14 | 14 | ||||
| Sophomore | |||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||
| BIOL 1020 Principles of Biology & BIOL 1021 Principles of Biology Laboratory | 4 | BIOL 1030 Organismal Biology & BIOL 1031 Organismal Biology Laboratory | 4 | ||
| GEOL 2010 Mineralogy and Optical Crystallography | 5 | BIOL 3030 Evolution and Systematics | 3 | ||
| MATH 1610 Calculus I | 4 | ESS Elective | 4 | ||
| CORE LITERATURE I | 3 | ESS Elective | 4 | ||
| 16 | 15 | ||||
| Junior | |||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer | Hours |
| PHYS 1500 General Physics I | 4 | PHYS 1510 General Physics II | 4 | ESS Elective* | 4 |
| GEOL 3060 Lunar and Planetary Geology | 3 | BIOL 3060 Ecology | 4 | ||
| GEOL 3200 Introduction to Paleobiology | 3 | GEOG 5210 Climatology | 3 | ||
| GEOL 5220 Geomorphology | 3 | CORE SOCIAL SCIENCE1 | 3 | ||
| CORE FINE ARTS | 3 | ||||
| 16 | 14 | 4 | |||
| Senior | |||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||
| ESS Elective | 3 | ESS Elective | 3 | ||
| ESS Elective | 3 | ESS Elective | 4 | ||
| GEOG 5830 Geographic Information Systems | 4 | GEOL 4740 Senior Seminar | 2 | ||
| CORE HUMANITIES | 3 | CORE SOCIAL SCIENCE II | 3 | ||
| CORE LITERATURE II | 3 | ||||
| 13 | 15 | ||||
| Total Hours: 121 | |||||
*ESS Elective (BIOL 3075 Introduction to Oceanography, offered at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in summer, is recommended)
1GEOG 1010 Global Geography is suggested for majors.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE ELECTIVES
GEOL 2050 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
GEOL 3400 Structural Geology
GEOG 5400 Geography of Natural Hazards
GEOL 4010 Sedimentary Petrology
GEOL 4260 Introduction to Geochemistry
GEOG 5510 Human-Environment Interaction
GEOL 4300 Geodynamics
GEOG 5550 Geography of Water Resources
GEOL 4930 Directed Studies in Undergraduate Research
GEOG 5600 Global Resources and the Environment
GEOL 5100 Hydrogeology
GEOG 5820 Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing
GEOL 5600 Applied Geophysics
BIOL 2500 Human Anatomy and Physiology I
BIOL 3040 Biology of Marine Systems
BIOL 3075 Introduction to Oceanography (Dauphin Island Sea Lab)
BIOL 3100 Plant Biology
BIOL 3200 General Microbiology & BIOL 3201 General Microbiology Laboratory
BIOL 4010 Invertebrate Biodiversity
BIOL 4020 Vertebrate Biodiversity
BIOL 5090 Conservation Biology
BIOL 5150 Community Ecology
CHEM 2030 Survey of Organic Chemistry
CHEM 2071 Organic Chemistry I Laboratory
CHEM 2080 Organic Chemistry II
CHEM 2081 Organic Chemistry II Laboratory
CHEM 3050 Analytical Chemistry
CHEM 3160 Survey of Physical Chemistry
PHYS 3500 Physics of the World Around Us
NATR 5050 Urban Ecology
NATR 5310 Environmental Ethics
CIVL 3220 Water and Waste Treatment