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Program Sample Plan

Program name: Earth Sciences M.S. (Program focus: Plan A)
Sample Plan: Earth Sciences M.S. Sample Plan
Total Credits: 141.0
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Year 1 - Fall Semester: 78.0 cr
EES 8200 - Professional Issues in Earth and Environmental Science : 1.0 cr
EES 4180 - Teaching Assistant Experience : 1.0 cr
EES 4201 - Watershed Hydrology : 3.0 cr
EES 4250 - Hydrogeology : 4.0 cr
EES 4311 - Igneous Petrogenesis : 3.0 cr
EES 4355 - Economic Geology : 4.0 cr
EES 4356 - Ore Deposits and Economic Geology : 3.0 cr
EES 4450 - Structural Geology : 4.0 cr
EES 4800 - Principles of Geophysics : 4.0 cr
EES 5095 - Earth & Environmental Special Topics (Various Titles to be Assigned) : 1.0 cr
EES 5100 - Seminar : 1.0 cr
EES 5103 - Geological Paleolimnology : 3.0 cr
EES 5201 - Watershed Hydrology : 3.0 cr
EES 5210 - Glacial and Quaternary Geology : 4.0 cr
EES 5310 - Advanced Petrology : 3.0 cr
EES 5311 - Igneous Petrogenesis : 3.0 cr
EES 5321 - Theory, Practice of Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis in Lectures : 3.0 cr
EES 5355 - Economic Geology : 4.0 cr
EES 5356 - Ore Deposits and Economic Geology : 3.0 cr
EES 5450 - Structural Geology : 5.0 cr
EES 5460 - Tectonics : 3.0 cr
EES 5601 - Introduction to Stream Restoration : 3.0 cr
EES 5603 - Stream Crossing Design : 2.0 cr
EES 5815 - Exploration Geophysics : 4.0 cr
EES 5820 - Global Geophysics : 3.0 cr
EES 8094 - Research in Earth & Environmental Science : 1.0 cr
EES 8200 - Professional Issues in Earth and Environmental Science : 1.0 cr
EES 8777 - Thesis Credit: Master's : 1.0 cr
Year 1 - Spring Semester: 57.0 cr
EES 4102 - Environmental Assessment : 3.0 cr
EES 4270 - Field Methods in Snow Hydrology : 1.0 cr
EES 4280 - Principles of Soil Science : 3.0 cr
EES 4360 - Geologic, Geophysical, and Geochemical Methods of Exploration : 4.0 cr
EES 4400 - Astrogeology : 3.0 cr
EES 4550 - Tectonic Geomorphology : 3.0 cr
EES 4710 - Geochemistry : 4.0 cr
EES 4839 - Coral Reef Geology : 3.0 cr : GLOBAL PER
EES 4863 - Ecosystems Ecology and Biogeochemistry : 3.0 cr
EES 5150 - Organic and Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry : 3.0 cr
EES 5250 - Hydrogeology : 4.0 cr
EES 5260 - Fluvial Geomorphology : 3.0 cr
EES 5270 - Field Methods in Snow Hydrology : 1.0 cr
EES 5360 - Geologic, Geophysical, and Geochemical Methods of Exploration : 4.0 cr
EES 5400 - Astrogeology : 3.0 cr
EES 5711 - Geochemistry : 4.0 cr
EES 5730 - Geochronology : 3.0 cr
EES 5863 - Ecosystems Ecology and Biogeochemistry : 3.0 cr
EES 8602 - Stream Restoration Practice : 2.0 cr
Year 2 - Fall Semester: 0 cr
Year 2 - Spring Semester: 0 cr
Year 3 - Fall Semester: 0 cr
Year 3 - Spring Semester: 0 cr