The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences aims to foster the intellectual development of its students within a geological perspective, and to prepare them to evaluate critical contemporary issues and problems relating to the earth`s physical environment. For anyone contemplating graduate studies and a professional career in geology, certain ancillary courses are required and others strongly recommended.
Geology majors may (A) choose a traditional curriculum, (B) design their own curriculum, or (C) select an environmental geology track curriculum. These curricula may serve as a preparation for graduate studies or a career in the petroleum or mining industries, environmental geology, oceanology, land-use planning, teaching, business, and law.
Environmental geology also offers graduate studies in several areas of geology; it is possible to obtain the B.A. (or B.S. as an option) and M.S. degrees in five years.
