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Earth and Environmental Sciences Courses

For an up to date list of courses offered by the department please visit the course catalog at:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/catalogs/undergrad/coursesstudy.html (click on "Earth and Environmental Sciences")

The following is a list of all courses offered by the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Click on the links to view more information about the courses.

            GEOL 100 Environmental Geology
  GEOL 101 Dynamic Earth: Introduction to Geoscience
  GEOL 111 Dynamic Earth Lab
  GEOL 102 Geological History of the Earth
  GEOL 103 Oceanography
  GEOL 113 Oceanography Lab
  GEOL 104 Earth Interactions
  GEOL 106 Marine and Coastal Environments
            GEOL 108 Earth and the Atmosphere
  GEOL 109 Introduction to Geologic Field Methods
  GEOL 110 Geology of National Parks
            GEOL 205 Science, Risk, and Policy
  GEOL 220 Life Through Time
  GEOL 225 Earth Materials
  GEOL 226 Petrology
  GEOL 230 Sedimentology
  GEOL 231 Stratigraphy
  GEOL 240 Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics
  GEOL 257 Hydrogeology
  GEOL 258 Environmental Geochemistry
  GEOL 260 Geochemistry
  GEOL 261 Geomorphology
            GEOL 262 Geochemistry Laboratory
  GEOL 264 Methods in Environmental Geology
  GEOL 279 Problems in Sedimentology and Paleobiology
  GEOL 289A Directed Study
  GEOL 289B Directed Study
  GEOL 291A Independent Study
  GEOL 291B Independent Study
  GEOL 292A Honors Thesis Research
  GEOL 292B Honors Thesis Research
  GEOL 315 Igneous Petrochemistry and Petrogenesis
  GEOL 320 Aqueous Geochemistry
  GEOL 322 Environmental Applications of Geochemical Modeling
  GEOL 369 Master's Thesis Research
  GEOL 390-1 Transport Processes in Earth & Environmental Systems
            GEOL 390-2 Magmatic Processes
            GEOL 390-3 Environmental Mineralogy
            GEOL 390-4 Earth Fluids

In addition, there are many courses offered by other departments that carry graduate credit in Geology. These courses are in most cases very useful and relevant to the Earth sciences. Just a few examples are listed below.

Anthropology

  207.      Energy, Environment, and Culture
  230.      Environment and Archaeology  
 
  Engineering
  CE203. Fluid Mechanics
  CE210. Water Supply & Wastewater Collection
  CE212. Hydrology
  CE243. Soil Mechanics
  CE240. Geotechnical Engineering
  CE259. Geographic Information Systems
  CE269. Radiological Aspects of Environmental Engineering
  EnvE264. Environmental Assessments
  EnvE270. Environmental Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Mass Transfer
  EnvE271. Environmental Chemistry
  EnvE273. Environmental Characterization and Analysis
  EnvE275. Environmental Risk Management
  EnvE276. Groundwater Hydrology
  EnvE312. Pollutant Transport in the Environment
 
  Chemistry
  220a,b. Organic Chemistry
  230, 231. Physical Chemistry
  238. Data Analysis
 
  Biology
  205. Evolution
  238. Ecology
 
  Mathematics
  204. Linear Algebra
  208. Ordinary Differential Equations
  218. Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
 
  Physics
  223. Thermal and Statistical Physics
  227. Intermediate Classical Mechanics
  229. Electricity, Magnetism and Electrodynamics


For more information, please contact The Vanderbilt Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences - 615.322.2976.
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