2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Geology Minor
Requirements for a Minor in Geology
Completion of a minor in geology requires 25 to 26 credits including the following:
- GEO elective: One course at the 300- or 400-level (3 to 4 credits) Geology Issues courses (300-level) cannot count toward the geology minor.
- GEO 111 - Exploring the Earth (4 credits) OR GEO 100 - Environmental Geology (3 credits) OR GEO 103 - Oceans (3 credits) OR GEO 105 - Living with the Great Lakes (3 credits)
- GEO 112 - Earth History (4 credits)
- GEO 175 - Research Tools for Geosciences (1 credit)
- GEO 214 - Solid Earth Materials and Systems (4 credits)
- GEO 220 - Earth Surface Materials and Systems (4 credits)
- GEO 311 - Structural Geology (4 credits)
- GEO 486 - Geology Reading Seminar (1 credit)