Environmental Geology Professional Certificate Program, 30 hours

Location(s): On Campus

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CIP: 400601

Designed to equip students with a common set of background skills required by an environmental geologist such as, water and soil sampling, rock and mineral identification, geospatial methods and mapping, hydrogeological and geophysical methods, data analysis, presentation and scientific writing, to enable to take the lead in environmental consultation.

This certificate program is intended to be completed in conjunction with a Bachelor’s degree; it is not a stand-alone program.

Requirements

Required Introductory Geology Courses (4 hours)

GEOL 27110 - General Geology Credit Hours: 3 AND
GEOL 27111 - General Geology Laboratory Credit Hours: 1
OR
GEOL 27114 - General Earth Science Credit Hours: 3 AND
GEOL 27115 - General Earth Science Laboratory Credit Hours: 1

Required Environmental Geology Courses (18 hours)

GEOL 27340 - Introduction to Hydrogeology Credit Hours: 3
GEOL 27360 - Environmental Geology Credit Hours: 4
GEOL 27424 - Geochemistry Credit Hours: 3
GEOL 27455 - Geologic Field Methods Credit Hours: 3
GEOL 27515 - Environmental Regulations Credit Hours: 2
GEOL 27595 - Geologic Data Analysis and Scientific Writing Credit Hours: 3

Electives (5 hours)

Choose five credit hours from the list below.

BIOL 04420 - Environmental Issues Credit Hours: 4
GEOG 32401 - Conservation of Natural Resources Credit Hours: 3
GEOL 27599 - Special Investigations in the Earth Sciences Credit Hours: 1 to 3

Note:

BIOL 04420 has prerequisites of BIOL 04106 and BIOL 04107 with a minimum grade of C and CHEM 24114 and CHEM 24115 .

Spatial Analysis Requirement (3 hours)

Choose three credit hours from the list below.

GEOG 32365 - Geographic Information Systems Credit Hours: 3
GEOG 32463 - Remote Sensing Credit Hours: 3