Earth and Environmental Geoscience, B.S.

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Earth and Environmental Geoscience offers a highly relevant, integrative, scientific avenue of study for managing our interactions with the environment, providing adequate resources, ensuring the safety of the built environment in the face of natural hazards, and solving the complex history of earth and its continuing evolution. We make extensive use of the extraordinary geology of the Appalachians and other locales around the globe, including Iceland, the Colorado Plateau, Hawai’i, Belize, New Zealand, Indonesia, and Greece. We offer many research opportunities using scientific computing, field programs, laboratory analyses, and GIS mapping.

Core Requirement

Complete the following course:

EEG 200 - Building a Planet

General Science Requirements

Complete the courses in the following list:

200-Level Laboratory Courses

Choose at least four courses (sixteen credits) in 200-level EEG laboratory courses.

300-Level Courses

Choose at least three EEG courses (9-12 credits) in 300-level (excluding EEG 390 and EEG 395 ).

Earth and Environmental Geoscience Electives

Choose additional EEG courses at the 100, 200, or 300-level to reach the 36 credit EEG requirement. Only one 100-level EEG laboratory course may count toward the major.

Mathematics

Choose one course from the following list:

Electives

Choose additional credits (not already applied) from the following list to reach the total 52 credit hours required:

EEG (any level, excluding summer research credits);
ENGN 178 - Introduction to Engineering or higher
MATH 102 - Calculus II or higher
BIOL 105 - Introduction to Behavioral Ecology or higher
CHEM 110 - General Chemistry or higher
CSCI 111 - Introduction to Computer Science or higher
PHYS 111 - General Physics I or higher
ECON 203 - Econometrics
or one of the following courses not used above:
BUS 202 - Fundamentals of Business Analytics
CBSC 250 - Statistics and Research Design
ECON 202 - Data Analytics for Economics
POL 202 - Applied Statistics
SOAN 218 - Basic Statistics in the Social Sciences

Capstone

Complete the following course:

EEG 390 - Geoscience Senior Seminar Workshop: Crafting Portfolios

Portfolio

Complete a capstone portfolio of coursework.

Total Major Requirements 52 Credits

Total of 52 credits with at least 36 credits in Earth and Environmental Geoscience courses.