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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Geology - Environmental Geosciences (BS) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus

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The curriculum for this major assumes students enter college prepared to take Calculus.

      
First Year Hours K-State Core  
Semester 1      
GEOL 100   - Earth in Action   3      
GEOL 103   - Geology Laboratory   1      
CHM 210  - Chemistry I   4   KSC 040  
MATH 220   - Analytic Geometry and Calculus I   4   KSC 030  
DAS 101   - Discover, Create, and Thrive: Arts and Sciences Orientation   1      
Total Credits: 13      
       
Semester 2      
GEOL 200   - Earth Through Time   3      
CHM 230   - Chemistry II    4    
ENGL 100   - Expository Writing I   OR 3   KSC 010  
ENGL 210   - Honors English   3      
COMM 106   -Public Speaking I   3   KSC 020  
Total Credits: 13      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
GEOL 502   - Mineralogy   3      
GEOL 360   - Quantitative Methods in Geoscience   3      
PHYS 113   - General Physics I   4      
ENGL 200   - Expository Writing II   3   KSC 010  
Social & Behavioral Science Requirement 3 KSC 050  
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 2      
GEOL 503   - Petrology   3      
Outside Concentration 3    
Arts & Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Ethical Reasoning Overlay 3    
Social & Behavioral Science Requirement 3 KSC 050  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
GEOL 530   - Structural Geology   3      
GEOL 605   - Introduction to Aqueous Geochemistry   3      
Non-Quantitative Social Science 3    
Arts & Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Outside Concentration 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
GEOL 630   -Sedimentology and Stratigraphy   3      
GEOL 560   - Field Methods   3      
PHYS 114   - General Physics II  4      
Outside Concentration 3    
Free Elective 2    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 3      
GEOL 680   - Field Geology   3      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
GEOL 520   - Geomorphology   3      
GEOL 540   - Geologic Record of Climate Change   3      
US Multicultural Overlay 3    
Fine Arts or Humanities Course 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
GEOL 512   - Earth Science    3 ​  
GEOL 650   - Geomicrobiology   3      
Global Perspectives Overlay 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Free Elective 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Total Program Hours: 120      

 

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