Geology and Environmental Studies Major, BS - Paleontology Concentration

College Requirements

Arts and Sciences 

Prerequisites

• A. Complete:

• EEPS 101 - The Dynamic Earth 4 Credit Hours
• EEPS 102 - Earth, Life, and Time 4 Credit Hours

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  B. Select one sequence:

• BIOL 150 - Organismal and Ecological Biology 3 Credit Hours
• BIOL 159 - Skills of Biological Investigation 2 Credit Hours
• BIOL 160 - Cellular and Molecular Biology 3 Credit Hours

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  or

• BIOL 113 - Introductory Plant Biology I 3 Credit Hours
• BIOL 114 - Introductory Plant Biology II 3 Credit Hours
• BIOL 115 - Introductory Plant Biology Laboratory 2 Credit Hours

Corequisites

• A. Select one Chemistry Lecture / Lab Combination:

• CHEM 102 - Principles of Chemistry 3 Credit Hours
• CHEM 103 - Principles of Chemistry Laboratory 1 Credit Hours

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  or

• CHEM 122 - General Chemistry I 3 Credit Hours
• CHEM 123 - General Chemistry I Laboratory 1 Credit Hours

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  or

• CHEM 128 - Honors: General Chemistry I 4 Credit Hours

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  B. Select two courses:

• STAT 201 - Introduction to Statistics 3 Credit Hours

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• STAT 207 - Honors: Introduction to Statistics 3 Credit Hours

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  and

• MATH 141 - Calculus I 4 Credit Hours

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  or

• MATH 147 - Honors: Calculus I 4 Credit Hours

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  or

• MATH 151 - Mathematics for the Life Sciences 3 Credit Hours

Concentration Requirements

This concentration consists of 41 - 42 credit hours.

• A. Complete (15 credit hours):

• BIOL 260 - Ecology 2 Credit Hours
• BIOL 269 - Ecology Field-Based Laboratory 2 Credit Hours
• BIOL 280 - Evolution 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 340 - Earth Sedimentary Processes 4 Credit Hours

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• B. Field Geology (5-6 Credit Hours):

• You may use a combination of courses to reach a minimum of 5 credit hours to include:

  1) EEPS 301 Field and Laboratory Methods in the Geosciences (3 credits) + EEPS 440 Field Geology (3 credits).

  2) EEPS 440 Field Geology (3 credits) + EEPS 440 Field Geology (3 credits). Note: these two courses must involve different field destinations/topics.

  3) Take an external field geology course for at least 5 credits and transfer those hours as EEPS 440.

• EEPS 301 - Field and Laboratory Methods in the Geosciences 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 440 - Field Geology 3-5 Credit Hours

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• C. Complete 9 hours:

• EEPS 406 - Taphonomy 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 420 - Trace Fossils: Behavior, Environment, and Applications 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 421 - Vertebrate Paleontology 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 422 - Evolution of Life 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 423 - Paleoecology 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 426 - Biospheric Change and the Fossil Record 3 Credit Hours

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• D. Complete 3 hours:

• EEPS 493 - Independent Study 1-12 Credit Hours

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• E. Complete 9 hours:

• ANTH 329 - Skeletal Collections and Curation 1 Credit Hours
• ANTH 431 - Isotope Ecology 3 Credit Hours
• ANTH 471 - Vertebrate Osteology 4 Credit Hours
• ANTH 490 - Primate Evolution 4 Credit Hours
• ANTH 495 - Hominin Paleobiology 4 Credit Hours
• EEB 401 - Natural History Collections Research 1 Credit Hours
• EEB 330 - Field Botany 3 Credit Hours *
• EEB 330S - Field Botany 3 Credit Hours *
• EEB 353 - Comparative Vertebrate Biology 4 Credit Hours
• EEB 404 - Ecosystem Ecology 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 410 - Ecological and Evolutionary Developmental Biology 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 411 - Biostatistics 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 424 - The Evolution of Plant Diversity 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 426 - Plant-Animal Interactions 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 433 - Plant Ecology 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 464 - Macroevolution 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 473 - Herpetology 3 Credit Hours
• EEB 474 - Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution of Fishes 4 Credit Hours
• EEB 484 - Conservation Biology 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 205 - Age of the Dinosaurs 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 320 - Paleobiology 4 Credit Hours
• EEPS 310 - Mineralogy 4 Credit Hours *
• EEPS 370 - Earth Structure and Geophysics 4 Credit Hours
• EEPS 424 - GIS for Geoscientists 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 425 - Data Analysis for Geoscientists 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 456 - Global Climate Change 3 Credit Hours
• EEPS 459 - Introduction to Oceanography 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 430 - Global Environments of the Quaternary 3 Credit Hours
• GEOG 431 - Environmental History from Lake Sediments 4 Credit Hours

Notes:

* Satisfies Volunteer Core   Requirements