Geology - B.S. Program Requirements

• Geology semester-by-semester Roadmap
• Environmental Geology concentration 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 (56 credits)*  Courses count in major GPA
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	BSCI	10110 30560	Biological Diversity (4) or Invertebrate Zoology (4)	4
KAD	CHEM	10060	General Chemistry I	4
KBS		10062	General Chemistry Laboratory I	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
		31080	Structural Geology	4
WIC		34061	Invertebrate Paleontology**	4
		41092	Summer Field Camp	6
		44070	Sedimentology and Stratigraphy	4
	GEOL MATH	42035 30011	Scientific Methods in Geology (3) or Basic Probability and Statistics (3)	3
KMC	MATH	12002	Analytic Geometry and Calculus I	5
KBS	PHY	13001	General College Physics I	4
KBS		13021	General College Physics Laboratory I	1
III.	ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (42-44 credits)
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	Foreign Language***			8-10
	Kent Core Additional (must be from two categories)			2
	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
	General Electives (minimum 3 upper-division credit hours) Credits required depends on meeting minimum 121 credit hours and minimum 42 upper-division credit hours			11-13
IV.	CONCENTRATION OR  ADDITIONAL MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (20-22 credits) counts in major GPA
	Geology - Additional Major Requirements (20)
	Environmental Geology concentration (21-22)
MINIMUM TOTAL				121

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

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

*** Fulfills College General Requirement.

 

Geology

For semester-by-semester course sequencing for this program, view the 2011-2012 Roadmap.

I.	ADDITIONAL MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (20 credits)* courses count in major GPA
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	Upper-division Geology courses**			15
	Choose one of the following series			5
KBS	CHEM	10061	General Chemistry II (4)
KBS		10063	General Chemistry Laboratory II (1)
		or
KBS	PHY	13002	General College Physics II (4)
KBS		13022	General College Physics Laboratory II (1)
MINIMUM SUBTOTAL				20

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

**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.

 

Environmental Geology concentration

For semester-by-semester course sequencing for this program, view the 2011-2012 Roadmap.

I.	CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (21-22 credits)* courses count in major GPA
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	CHEM	10061	General Chemistry II	4
		10063	General Chemistry Laboratory II	1
	GEOL	32066	Geomorphology	4
		43040	Principles of Geochemistry	3
	Choose from the following upper-division courses:			9-10
	GEOL	42030	Remote Sensing (3)
		42067	Introduction Hydrogeology (3)
		42068	Contaminant Hydrology and Hydrogeology (3)
		43040	Environmental Geology and Well Logging (3)
		32066	Engineering Geology (4)
MINIMUM SUBTOTAL				21

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