Geology - B.A. Program Requirements

• Geology semester-by-semester Roadmap

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity and writing-intensive requirements.

I.	DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE  (1 credit)
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	US	10097	Destination Kent State: First Year Experience	1
II.	MAJOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (49 credits)*  Courses count in major GPA
Type	Course		Title	Credits
KBS	BSCI	10110 30560	Biological Diversity (4) or Invertebrate Zoology (4)	4
KAD	CHEM	10060	General Chemistry I**	4
KBS		10062	General Chemistry I Laboratory	1
KBS	GEOL	11040	Earth Dynamics	3
KBS		11041	Earth Dynamics Laboratory	1
KBS		11042	Earth History	3
KBS		11043	Earth History Laboratory	1
		23063	Earth Materials I	4
		31070	Earth Materials II	4
WIC		34061	Invertebrate Paleontology****	4
		3/4xxxx	GEOL Elective (upper division)+	15
KMC	MATH	11010	Algebra for Calculus	3
		11022	Trigonometry	2
III.	ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (71 credits)
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	Foreign Language***			14-20
	Kent Core Additional (must be from two categories)			3
	Kent Core Composition			6-8
	Kent Core Humanities and Fine Arts (minimum one course from each)			9
	Kent Core Social Sciences (must be from two disciplines)			6
	College General Requirements (must be from Kent Core Social Sciences)*****			3
	General Electives (upper division) Credits required depends on meeting minimum 121 credit hours and minimum 42 upper-division credit hours			30
MINIMUM TOTAL				121

* All courses taken from the list of major program requirements are used in the calculation of the major GPA.

** CHEM 10060 General Chemistry I fulfills College General requirements.

*** Fulfills College General Requirement

****A minimum C (2.0) grade must be earned to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.

*****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Social Sciences courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Applied Conflict Management (CACM), Geography (GEOG), Criminology and Justice Studies (JUS), Political Science (POL), Psychology (PSYC) or Sociology (SOC). The course may not be from the student's major.

+ GEOL 41092 Summer Field Camp is recommended as an upper-division GEOL elective

Minimum 15 credit hours must be applied toward upper-division GEOL course electives. The following courses may not satisfy major requirements: GEOL 41073 Geology of Ohio, GEOL 41077 Geology of the National Parks and GEOL 41079 All About Dinosaurs.