29 courses with the subject GEOL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Students explore popular depictions of natural disasters to assess their geologic plausibility. Not open to students who have taken GEOL 117 or GEOL 203 or GEOL 250.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Origin, development, and use of natural resources for energy production with an emphasis on petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear energy and their impact on the environment. Not open to students who have taken GEOL 117, GEOL 203, or GEOL 250. Only open to first-years and sophomores.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Geologic environmental hazards. Emphasis on hazards recognition and assessment in seminars, and field applications. Topics include: soils, slopes, floods, fans, earthquakes, land use, coastal, and groundwater hazards. Preference given to first-years and sophomores. Not open to Geology majors, except by permission of instructor, or students who have taken GEOL 108 or GEOL 316.
Offered Summer Session Only; Lecture hours:3,Other:2Earth and the Environment examines the fundamental geological processes that govern how the earth works. The topics include plate tectonics, types of rocks and minerals, the rock cycle, volcanism, seismicity, surface processes and introduction to geologic mapping. Finally, it examines the human impact on the geological environment.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Introduction to Earth's dynamic systems, plate tectonic processes that make Earth a unique planet, and human interaction with Earth. Geologic factors and limitations that affect use or management of the environment. Not open to students who have taken GEOL 250. Prerequisite: first- or second-year status, others by permission.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Introduction to the evolution of life, climate, plate tectonics, and catastrophes through time provides perspective for making decisions about ongoing and future environmental change. Preference given to first-years and sophomores.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:2Course is designed for students without prior exposure to geoscience, to learn how to detect subsurface features (walls, roads, groundwater, bedrock). Students learn how to collect geospatial data over the earth’s surface, present/analyze data in a GIS environment. Not open to students who have taken GEOL 230 or GEOL 334.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:4Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in geologic mapping, environmental monitoring, and hydrologic modeling. Introduction to global positioning,(GPS), environmental databases, spatial analyses, and terrain modeling.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Basic principles, including properties of rocks and soils, hydrology, surface processes, rock mechanics, environmental parameters, geological hazards, and engineering case histories. Not open to students who have taken GEOL 203. GEOL 250 is restricted to first- and second-year civil and environmental engineering students and others by permission.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:3Principles of crystallography and mineralogy; crystal morphology, structure, chemistry, physical properties, genesis, occurrence, and identification of important minerals by various techniques including chemical analysis. Prerequisite: GEOL 203 or GEOL 204 or GEOL 250 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Composition of natural waters and sediments, basic thermodynamics and kinetics, acid-base and oxidation-reduction reactions, chemical weathering, stable and radioactive isotopes, carbon and nutrient cycles, anthropogenic impacts on geochemical cycles. Prerequisites: CHEM 203 or CHEM 205 or CHEM 207 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as GEOL 605.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Principles and techniques of the study of depositional processes and environments. Emphasis on semester-long sedimentary basin analysis project including analysis of Paleozoic outcrops near campus. Prerequisite: GEOL 204.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:3Introduction to GIS applied to studying landscape processes and solving geologic problems, including coastal, volcanic, and desert landscapes, and geologic resource mapping. Course focuses on mastery of basic skills using ESRI ArcGIS software and using geologic spatial datasets. Not open to students who have taken GEOL 230.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Orientation and geometric analyses of rock structures, kinematics and mechanics of rock deformation at all scales. Prerequisite: GEOL 203 or GEOL 250 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as GEOL 614.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Physical processes shaping the Earth's surface and evolution of resulting landforms. Emphasis on linkages between landscape components and understanding complex relationships between process and form. Prerequisite: GEOL 203 or GEOL 204 or GEOL 250 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as GEOL 616.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Principles of evolution and ecology applied to investigation of ancient life. Emphasis on analysis of field collections of marine invertebrate fossils from Paleozoic outcrops near campus. Prerequisites: (BIOL 203 or BIOL 204) or (GEOL 203 or GEOL 204) and permission of the instructor.
Topics course,Offered Summer Session Only; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableResearch course for qualified students in any branch of geology. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableResearch course for qualified students in any branch of geology. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Topics course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableResearch course for qualified students in any branch of geology. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall Semester Only,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Lab:Varies; RepeatableInvestigation, report, or discussion on currently significant topics in geology. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Topics course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatableInvestigation, report, or discussion on currently significant topics in geology. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as GEOL 622.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:Varies; RepeatableIndependent study course for qualified students in any branch of geology. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Introduction to geophysical principles and methods (seismic, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic and GPR) applied to both near-surface and solid earth studies. Emphasis placed on active learning by hands-on geophysical data collection focused on environmental and engineering applications. Prerequisites: (One 200-level geology course and MATH 201) or PHYS 211P. Crosslisted as GEOL 634.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Water properties, fundamental flow equations, surface and subsurface flow, well hydraulics, regional flow, and contamination. Prerequisites: GEOL 203 or GEOL 250 and MATH 192 or MATH 201, or permission of the instructor.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Surviving on a complex and dynamic earth surface. Understanding environmental problems and geologic hazards with geologic principles set in a multidisciplinary framework. Prerequisites: GEOL 316 and permission of the instructor.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4This class examines the mineralogy, petrography, geochemistry, origin and tectonic significance of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Prerequisite: GEOL 304.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Students will learn how karst systems and associated landforms, like caves, form. We will explore the geochemistry and hydrogeology of karst aquifers and other topics using collected data, computer modeling, peer-reviewed literature and group projects. Students will be required to attend at least one of two weekend field trips.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Lab:4Course will focus on current questions in paleoclimatology and local paleoclimate history through the production of novel paleoclimate records. Survey of paleoclimate archives and proxies, geological controls on climate, Quaternary glacial cycles, warm periods as analogs for modern climate change, millennial-scale climate oscillations, Holocene and Common Era climate.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:1.5Geosciences majors (BS & BA) will take this course as their culminating experience. Also appropriate for any student interested in geosciences-related careers or graduate education. Students will explore career and graduate school options in the geosciences by way of guest speakers, resume workshops, alumni contacts and preparation for geologist-in-training certification.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
