General Education (41 hours)

General Education  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences.

The following courses are required by the program and can satisfy the respective General Education requirement:

• MATH 1530 (Math) and MATH 1710 (Math) required for cognate

Major Requirements (42 hours)

A minimum GPA of 2.00 is required in the major.

• GEOL 1030 - Introduction to Earth Science 3 credit hours AND
• GEOL 1031 - Introduction to Earth Science Lab 1 credit hour

• OR

• GEOL 1040 - Physical Geology 4 credit hours AND
• GEOL 1041 - Physical Geology Lab 0 credit hours

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• PGEO 1030 - Physical Geography 4 credit hours
• PGEO 3401 - Field Studies in Physical Geography 4 credit hours
• PGEO 4000 - Climatology and Climate Change 3 credit hours
• PGEO 4380 - Cartography 4 credit hours
• PGEO 4490 - Remote Sensing 4 credit hours
• PGEO 4511 - Advanced Remote Sensing 3 credit hours
• PGEO 4530 - Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours
• PGEO 4560 - Intermediate Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours
• PGEO 4570 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours
• GEOL 4020 - Geomorphic Regions of the United States 4 credit hours

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• PGEO or GEOL electives 3-5 credit hours

Cognate (18 hours)

• MATH 1530 - Applied Statistics 3 credit hours
• MATH 1710 - College Algebra 3 credit hours
• Natural Science (selected from General Education  list) 4 credit hours
• Mentor-approved College of Basic and Sciences electives 8 credit hours

Electives

• To make 120 hours; Geosciences mentor-approved electives

Freshman

• ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing 3 credit hours (Comm)
• ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing 3 credit hours (Comm)
• COMM 2200 - Fundamentals of Communication 3 credit hours (Comm)
• PGEO 1030 - Physical Geography 4 credit hours
• Social/Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
• Humanities and/or Fine Arts 3 credit hours
• Mathematics 3 credit hours
• Natural Sciences 4 credit hours

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• GEOL 1030 - Introduction to Earth Science 3 credit hours AND
• GEOL 1031 - Introduction to Earth Science Lab 1 credit hour

• OR

• GEOL 1040 - Physical Geology 4 credit hours AND
• GEOL 1041 - Physical Geology Lab 0 credit hours

Sophomore

• ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
• ENGL 2030 - The Experience of Literature 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
• HUM 2610 - Foreign Literature in Translation 3 credit hours (Hum/FA)

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• MATH 1530 - Applied Statistics 3 credit hours
• PGEO 4000 - Climatology and Climate Change 3 credit hours
• PGEO 4380 - Cartography 4 credit hours
• PGEO 4490 - Remote Sensing 4 credit hours
• PGEO 4530 - Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours
• Natural Sciences 4 credit hours
• Cognate elective 3 credit hours

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• Choose 6 hours from:

• HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I 3 credit hours
• HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History II 3 credit hours
• HIST 2030 - Tennessee History 3 credit hours

Junior

• PGEO 4511 - Advanced Remote Sensing 3 credit hours
• PGEO 4560 - Intermediate Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours
• Humanities and/or Fine Arts 3 credit hours
• Social/Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
• Cognate electives 6 credit hours
• General electives 9 credit hours

NOTE:

PGEO 3401  (4-hour field course) is required and offered only during summer.

Senior

• GEOL 4020 - Geomorphic Regions of the United States 4 credit hours
• PGEO 4570 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours
• PGEO or GEOL elective 3 credit hours
• Cognate electives 6 credit hours
• General electives 10 credit hours