Bachelor of Arts Curriculum

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)

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)

 * or any comparable course approved by the department undergraduate advisor

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 or 21:460:486  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.