The bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree in geosciences requires 65 credits.
Required Courses (30 credits)
21:460:103 Planet Earth (3)
21:460:104 Planet Earth Laboratory (1)
21:460:206 Environmental Geology (3)
21:460:207 Environmental Geology Laboratory (1)
21:460:311 Geologic Field Methods (3)
21:460:314 Stratigraphy (4)
21:460:320 Structural Geology (4)
21:460:323 Rocks and Minerals (4)
21:460:375 Quantitative Methods in the Geosciences (4)
21:460:427 Hydrogeology (3)
Any four of the following required courses (12-16 credits)
21:460:230 Weather and Climate (3) or 21:460:225 Introduction to Oceanography (3)
21:460:309 or 28:460:309 Geomorphology (3)
21:460:311 Oceanography (3)
21:460:325 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (3)
21:460:400 Introduction to Soil Science (4)
21:460:401 Introduction to Geochemistry (3)
21:460:406 Applied Geophysics (3)
21:160:227 Experimental Analytical Chemistry (2)
21:160:331 Organic Chemistry Laboratory (2)
21:160:335 Organic Chemistry I (4)
21:160:336 Organic Chemistry II (4)
28:160:360 or 28:160:361 Environmental Chemistry I and/or II (3)
28:375:385 NJIT Environmental Microbiology (3)
21:120:205 and 206 Foundations of Ecology and Evolution (4)
Required Cognate Courses (26 credits)
one year of General Chemistry with Laboratory (10)
21:460:135 Calculus I (4)
one year of General Biology with Laboratory or Concepts of Biology (120:200) and Foundations of Biology (120:201 and 202)* (8) or one year of General Physics with Laboratory (10)
*Please note: Students wishing to double major in Environmental Science must take 120:200 and 120:201 and 202.
Senior Seminar(1) (must be taken in final year)
21:460:485,486 Seminar in Geology (1,1)
Undergraduate Research Experience
21:460:415,416 Undergraduate Research in Geoscience (BA,BA)
The department strongly encourages students to participate in faculty-led research with the approval of the chair. Students may substitute a maximum of 6 credits toward the environmental science minor with an undergraduate research experience.
