Mission/Vision Statement

The mission of the Geoscience program is to provide an excellent scientific education through teaching, scholarship, and service.  Our program offers a number of tracks in the Geosciences that support student career goals and aspirations.  This program has a history of providing students with the knowledge and skills necessary for pursuing professional development and/or advanced education; and in preparation for employment.  

Student Learning Goals

1. Geoscience majors will acquire substantive knowledge of global spatial patterns and concepts central to the study geoscience.
2. Geoscience majors will acquire the analytical and technical skills necessary to perform spatial analysis and research using GIS or other technologies.
3. Geoscience majors will compete successfully in the professional job market or gain admittance to an advanced Geoscience graduate program.

No grade less than a C (2.0) will be accepted in any required School of Natural Science course.

Degree Requirements

See “General Requirements for Undergraduate Degrees at IU Southeast” and “General Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree.”

General Education Component

Note: This is not a re-statement of the University’s General Education Requirement but a list of specific General Education courses which are also requirements or pre-requisites for course work in the school/major.

FOR ALL GEOGRAPHY TRACKS

FOR GEOLOGY TRACK

Geoscience Core Requirements for all Geography and Geology Tracks

Courses required for all Geography Tracks: 

Environmental Geography Track

Additional course work required outside of Geosciences.  Students must select one.

Specific Requirements for Track

Track Electives: Students must select one.

Students must select 6 additional credit hours at the 300-400 level, from Geography and Geology courses, that relate to the track, with approval of the Geoscience advisor.

Capstone

Students must select one capstone course, with approval of the Geoscience advisor.

Geographic Information Science Track 

Specific Requirements for Track

Track Electives: Students must select one.

Electives

Capstone

Students must select one capstone course, with approval of the Geoscience advisor.

Human Geography Track

Specific Requirements for Track - Upper level courses: students must select one.

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  • Electives
  • Capstone
  • Additional course work required
  • Specific Requirements for Track – Upper level courses, students must select one.
  • Track Electives
  • Electives
  • Additional Coursework
  • Specific Requirements for Track

• Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
  GEOG-G	213	Introduction to Economic Geography	3	C
  GEOG-G	307	Biogeography: Distribution of Life	3	C	GEOG-G 107
  GEOG-G	418	Historical Geography	3	C

   

Students must select 6 additional credit hours at the 300-400 level, from Geography and Geology courses, that relate to the track, with approval of the Geoscience advisor.Students must select one capstone course, with approval of the Geoscience advisor.

• Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
  GEOG-G	450	Undergraduate Research and Readings in Geography	3	C	Junior/Senior standing
  GEOG-G	460	Internship Geographical Analysis	3	C	Junior/Senior standing
  GEOG-G	490	Senior Seminar in Geography	3	C	Junior/Senior standing

   
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• Physical Geography Track
• Students must select 5 additional credit hours from approved laboratory courses in Biology, Chemistry, or Physics.
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  Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
  GEOG-G	304	Physical Meteorology & Climatology	3	C	GEOG-G107
  GEOG-G	404	Geography of Soils	3	C	GEOG-G 107 or GEOL-G 107
  GEOL-G	415	Geomorphology	3	C	GEOL-G 100, GEOL-G103, or GEOG-G 107

• Students must select one course, but that course must be different than the one chosen as an upper level course.
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  Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
  GEOG-G	304	Physical Meteorology & Climatology	3	C	GEOG-G 107
  GEOG-G	308	Disasters: Natural/Human Induced			6 credits in physical/bio sciences
  GEOG-G	404	Geography of Soils	3	C	GEOG-G107 or GEOL-G100
  GEOL-G	415	Geomorphology	3	C	GEOL-G 100, GEOL-G103, or GEOG-G 107
  GEOL-G	451	Principles of Hydrogeology	3	C	GEOL-G 100, GEOL-G103, or GEOG-G 107

• Students must select 6 additional credit hours at the 300-400 level, from Geography and Geology courses, that relate to the track, with approval of the Geoscience advisor.Students must select one capstone course, with approval of the Geoscience advisor.
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  Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
  GEOG-G	450	Undergraduate Research and Readings in Geography	3	C	Junior/Senior standing
  GEOG-G	460	Internship Geographical Analysis	3	C	Junior/Senior standing
  GEOG-G	490	Senior Seminar in Geography	3	C	Junior/Senior standing

• Geology Track
• Additional coursework selected from approved laboratory courses in Biology, Chemistry, or Physics.  It is recommended that students take a 10 credit hour sequence from one Natural Science Discipline approved by the Geoscience Advisor.

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  • Upper level courses, students must select one.
  • Track Electives – Students must select one course.
  • Electives
  • Capstone

• Dept e.g. ENG-W	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
  GEOL-G	221	Introductory Mineralogy	4	C	P or C: GEOL-G 100 or GEOL-G 103
  GEOL-G	222	Introduction to Petrology	4	C	GEOL-G 221
  GEOL-G	334	Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy	4	C	GEOL-G  222
  GEOL-G	415	Geomorphology	3	C	GEOL-G 100, GEOL-G 103, or GEOG-G 107

  Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
  GEOG-G	304	Physical Meteorology and Climatology	3	C	GEOG-G107
  GEOG-G	404	Geography of Soils	3	C	GEOG-G107 or GEOL-G100
  GEOL-G	415	Geomorphology	3	C	GEOG-G107 or GEOL-G100

  Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
  GEOG-G	404	Geography of Soils	3	C	GEOG-G107 or GEOL-G 100
  GEOL-G	300	Environmental and Urban Geology	3	C	One 100 level course in Geology or Geography
  GEOL-G	451	Principles of Hydrogeology	3	C	GEOL-G 100, GEOL-G103, or GEOG-G 107

•  Students must select 6 additional credit hours at the 300-400 level, from Geography and Geology courses, that relate to the track, with approval of the Geoscience advisor.Students must select one capstone course, with approval of the Geoscience advisor.
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  Dept.	Course Number	Title	Credit Hours	Minimum Grade	Co-Reqs or Pre-reqs
  GEOL-G	410	Undergraduate Research in Geology	3	C	GEOL-G 222 and dept. consent.
  GEOL-G	460	Internship in Geology	3	C	Consent of Dept./Instructor