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Each year the Geology Program offers more than $42,000 in scholarship support to qualifying UL students

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Critical Courses

As part of your degree, you must take classes within and outside the School of Geosciences, in addition to some courses in other colleges. Find out which courses are critical to your geology education here:

Geology Courses

  • GEOL 111 Physical Geology
  • GEOL 112 Historical Geology
  • GEOL 291 Mineralogy
  • GEOL 292 Petrology
  • GEOL 314 Structural Geology
  • GEOL 330 Field Methods
  • GEOL 339 Sedimentary Petrology
  • GEOL 341 Stratigraphy
  • GEOL 400 Summer Field Camp
  • GEOL 420 Geophysics
  • GEOL 437 Computer Methods
  • GEOL 435 Analysis of Geologic Data
  • GEOL 499 Undergraduate Seminar

Science and Math Courses

  • MATH 270 Calculus I
  • MATH 301 Calculus II
  • CHEM 107 General Chemistry
  • BIOL 110 Fundamentals of Biology
  • BIOL 112 Fundamentals of Biology Lab
  • PHYS 207 Introduction to Physics I
  • PHYS 208 Introdcution to Physics II
  • PHYS 215 Introduction to Physics I Lab
  • PHYS 216 Introduction to Physics II Lab
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