Applicants for this program are expected have either an undergraduate degree in Geology or an Education degree with significant coursework in the Earth and other sciences. Students with minimal geological backgrounds need to consult with their advisor regarding a course of study. The following undergraduate level courses, or equivalents, are required, or must be completed as deficiencies that do not fulfill course requirements of the M.S. degree:
   ¤ Introduction to Geology (GEOL 101)
   ¤ Historical Geology (GEOL 255)
   ¤ three additional 300 or 400 level courses

Graduate Requirements
The Geoscience Education option requires the completion of a minimum of eight letter-graded graduate courses plus a thesis in geoscience education. At least six of these courses must be courses offered through the Department of Geological Sciences (including the core course, listed below). Courses taken outside of the department must be approved by the faculty as fulfilling course requirements for the M.S. degree.

Geoscience Education Core Course:
   ¤ GEOL 569 Education Theory and Practice for Scientists

Focus Courses (five are required):
   ¤ GEOL 505 Modeling and Computational Methods in Geology
   ¤ GEOL 527 Water Geochemistry
   ¤ GEOL 528 Physical Geochemistry
   ¤ GEOL 529 Contaminant Geochemistry
   ¤ GEOL 532 Origin & Classification of Soils
   ¤ GEOL 543 Advanced Invertebrate Paleontology
   ¤ GEOL 546 Earth Systems Evolution
   ¤ GEOL 548 Paleoecology
   ¤ GEOL 551 Diagenesis
   ¤ GEOL 552 Depositional Environments (facies models)
   ¤ GEOL 553 Physical Limnology
   ¤ GEOL 554 Fluvial Sedimentology
   ¤ GEOL 555 Limnogeology
   ¤ GEOL 557 Petroleum Geology
   ¤ GEOL 564 Regional Tectonics
   ¤ GEOL 566 Geodynamics
   ¤ GEOL 567 Tectonophysics
   ¤ GEOL 571 Advanced Environmental Geology
   ¤ GEOL 576 Subsurface Methods
   ¤ GEOL 580 Principles of Hydrogeology
   ¤ GEOL 581 Groundwater Flow Modeling
   ¤ GEOL 582 Transport Processes in Grounwater
   ¤ GEOL 585 Introduction to Applied Geophysics
   ¤ GEOL 586 Applied Seismology
   ¤ GEOL 653 Sequence Stratigraphy
   ¤ GEOL 661 Advanced Structural Geology
   ¤ GEOL 665 Basin Teconics and Hydrocarbon Exploration
     Additional courses can be substituted with the approval
      of the faculty.

Please contact Julie Libarkin for more information and discussion of possible research topics.