Requirements for a Life and Environments Concentration in Geosciences (BS)

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Select 4 hrs. from the following:		4
GEO 3435	Invertebrate Paleontology
GEO 4430	Vertebrate Paleontology
GEO 4431	Evolutionary History of Plants
Restricted Electives
Select 3 hrs. from the following:		3
Life and Environments Electives - List A
Select an additional 6 hrs. from the following lists:		6
Life and Environments Electives - List A
Life and Environments Electives - List B
Total Hours		13

Life and Environments Electives

List A

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
GEO 3430	Petrology	4
GEO 4317	Sedimentary Geochemistry	3
GEO 4321	Isotope Geochemistry	3
GEO 4322	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	3
GEO 4324	Geomicrobiology	3
GEO 4328	Sedimentary Petrology	3
GEO 4337	Paleoecology	3
GEO 4388	Earth System Science	3
GEO 4429	Organic Geochemistry	4

List B

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
ANT 3331	Human Osteology	3
ANT 4314	Human Biological Variation	3
ANT 4335	The Human Fossil Record	3
BIO 3303	Ecology	3
BIO 3320	Climate Change Biology	3
BIO 3342	Molecular Cell Biology	3
BIO 3350	Genomics and Bioinformatics	3
BIO 3366	Foundations of Evolutionary Biology	3
BIO 4302 & BIO 4102	General Microbiology and General Microbiology Lab	4
BIO 4310	Biogeography	3
BIO 4317 & BIO 4117	Plant Physiology and Plant Physiology Lab	4
BIO 4405	Limnology	4
BIO 4406	Aquatic Biology	4
CHE 3331	Organic Chemistry I	3
CHE 3332	Organic Chemistry II	3
CHE 3238	Organic Chemistry Laboratory	2
CHE 4341 & CHE 4141	General Biochemistry and Modern Biochemistry Laboratory	4
ENV 3387	Environmental Chemistry	3
ENV 4304	Aquatic Chemistry	3
GEO 4300	Senior Thesis	3
GEO 4346	Hydrogeology	3
GEO 4373	Global Soil Systems	3
GEO 4381	Paleoclimatology	3
GEO 4383	Climate Change and Society I	3
GEO 4485	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems	4