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Minor in Geological and Environmental Sciences

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Bachelor of Science in Geological and Environmental Sciences

The minor in GES consists of a small set of required courses plus 12 elective units. A wide variety of courses may be used to satisfy these elective requirements.

REQUIRED COURSES:

GES 1. Dynamic Earth

4

or GES 49N. Field Trip to Death Valley and Owens Valley

3

EESS 2. Earth System History

3

GES 102. Earth Materials

5

ELECTIVES (12 UNITS)

Electives must include at least three courses from the list below:

GES 8. The Oceans

3

GES 90. Introduction to Geochemistry

3-4

GES 103. Rocks in Thin Section

3

GES 110. Structural Geology

5

GES 111A. Fundamentals of Structural Geology

3

GES 130. Soil Physics and Hydrology

3

GES 131. Hydrologically-Driven Landscape Evolution

3

EESS 164. Fundamentals of GIS

4

GES 151. Sedimentary Geology and Petrography

4

GES 170. Environmental Geochemistry

4

EESS 155. Science of Soils

4

GES 180. Igneous Processes

3-5

GES 181. Metamorphic Processes

3-5

GES 185. Volcanology

4

Students pursuing a minor in GES are encouraged to take one of the freshman or sophomore seminars (courses with numbers 38-59) and to participate in the senior seminar (GES 150) and in field research (GES 190). Up to 3 units of Stanford Introductory Seminars may be used in fulfilling the 12-unit requirement above.

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