Geology majors study present-day and past interrelationships between earth components and earth processes -- rocks, minerals, fossils, landforms, structural features, earthquakes, glaciers, magmas, volcanoes, atmospheric gases, surface water, subsurface water, and environmental pollutants. Required coursework in geology is integrated with required or recommended coursework in forestry, soils, hydrology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics.

A total of nine full department courses, including our junior presentations and senior project seminars and coursework in earth history, mineralogy, petrology, paleontology, sedimentology, and structural geology, are required.

The table below shows the requirements for the Geology major. In addition, a summer geology field camp sponsored by another institution and typically run in the western United States is strongly recommended and is required for admission by many graduate schools.