Environmental Geology Professional Certificate Program, 30 hours

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 *	3
GEOL 27111	General Geology Laboratory *	1
	OR
GEOL 27114	General Earth Science *	3
GEOL 27115	General Earth Science Laboratory *	1

Required Environmental Geology Courses (18 hours)

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

Spatial Analysis Requirement (3 hours)

Choose three credit hours from the list below.

GEOG 32207	GPS Fundamentals	3
GEOG 32365	Geographic Information Systems	3
GEOG 32463	Remote Sensing	3

Note: GEOG 32365 has a prerequisite of GEOG 32201 or junior standing and GEOG 32463 has a prerequisite of a GEOG 32201 or permission of the instructor.

Electives (5 hours)

Choose five credit hours from the list below.

BIOL 04420	Environmental Issues	4
GEOG 32401	Conservation of Natural Resources	3
GEOL 27599	Special Investigations in the Earth Sciences	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.