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Degree Requirements for Geosciences - Geology Emphasis

Freshman Year

CLASS

TITLE

CREDIT

CHEM 105

College Chemistry I

4

CHEM 108*

College Chemistry II

4

ENGL 111 1

Intro to College Comp

3

ENGL 112*

Comp & Research

3

GEOL 105

Physical Geology

4

GEOL 106*

Historical Geology

4

MATH 107 and 109* or

College Algebra, Plane Trigonometry

4-6

MATH 118

Precalculus

 

HLTH 101

Wellness for Life

3-4

or Activity P Ed

 

 

V&PA or S&BS 1

see list below

3

 

Sophmore Year

CLASS

TITLE

CREDIT

GEOL 203*

Crystallography & Mineralogy

4

E S 220

GIS for the Sciences

3

ENGL (need 1)

210*, 220*, 240*, 250*

3

PHYS 104/105 or

Physics I and II

8

BIOL 120/121

Biology I and II

 

HYDR 110 2

Intro to Hydrology

3

MATH 120 or 209* or

Calculus I or Calculus II

4

MATH 300 or 350

Statistics or Biostatistics

 

GEOL (see Jr/Sr year for required classes)

3

POLS 201*

American National Gov’t

3

POLS 202*

Texas Government

3

 

1 English: Students will be placed into English courses in accordance with the University’s Placement and Continuing Enrollment Rules. Students must enroll in English during their first semester at Tarleton. Following initial English enrollment, students must enroll in English every regular semester thereafter until s/he has successfully completed the freshman-level English sequence [i.e., ENGL 111 and 112].

 Mathematics: Students will be placed into mathematics courses in accordance with the University’s Placement and Continuing Enrollment Rules. Students must enroll in mathematics during their first semester at Tarleton unless they are eligible for placement into college-level mathematics [MATH 107 or higher]. Students eligible for placement into college-level mathematics may choose to postpone initial mathematics enrollment until their second regular semester at Tarleton. Following initial mathematics enrollment, students must enroll in mathematics every regular semester thereafter until the freshman mathematics core curriculum requirement has been satisfied.

 V&PA: 3 hours of visual and performing arts. These core curriculum requirements may not be selected from the student’s major field. Visual and performing arts course must be historical, appreciative, or theoretical in nature; it may not be an applied or performance course. Courses that meet this requirement are ART 131, 231, 232, 331; FA 101, 135, 160, 401; IT 340; MUSC 213, 313, 324, 326, 327, 328, THEA 105, 207, 208, 404.

 S&BS: 6 hours of social and behavioral sciences 5,7 from SOC 101, 201, 303; PSY 101; PHIL 101,201, 301; ECO 101, 201; A EC 105; ARCH 201; ENGR 303; GEO 110, 120, 201; HIST 101, 102. These core curriculum requirements may not be selected from the student’s major field. The two courses to fulfill this requirement must be chosen from different academic disciplines.

2 HYDR 110 offered in Fall

Junior and Senior Years

CLASS

TITLE

CREDIT

   

 

COMS (need 1)

 

3

101 or

Fundamentals Of Speech Communication

 

102 or

Public Speaking

 

301

Business & Professional Speech

 

GEOL 205 Field Geology
3

GEOL 305 (a)

Paleontology

3

GEOL 306 (a)

Igneous & Metamorphic Petrology

4

Geol 312 (a)

Structural Geology

3

GEOL 313 (b) Stratigraphy & Sedimentary
4
GEOL 411 (a) Economic Geology
3

Geology field class**

 

6

2 classes from the GEOL list below

 

6

GEOL 310 (b) Geomorphology

GEOL 314* (b)

Geochemistry

 

GEOL 320* (a)

Hydrogeology

 

GEOL 412* (b)

Subsurface Methods

 

HIST 201

US History through 1877

3

HIST 202

US History since Reconstruction

3

Advanced Electives

 

16 hrs

V&PA or S&BS 1

 

6

* Denotes class with prerequisites

Upper level GEOL and E S classes are typically offered on a two year rotation. Students should be aware of this and take classes as they are offered. (a) courses are typically offered even-odd (e.g. FA 06-SP 07) academic years and (b) courses for odd-even (e.g. FA 07-SP 08) academic years.

**An approved geology field course of 6 hrs offered by an approved University to be taken during the summer between junior and senior years.

 

 

 

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