Geology Major (B.Sc.)

66 credits · Faculty of Science · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Required Courses (30 credits)

  • EPSC 210 Introductory Mineralogy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 212 Introductory Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 220 Principles of Geochemistry (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 231 Field School 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • EPSC 233 Earth and Life Through Time (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 240 Geology in the Field (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 303 Structural Geology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 320 Elementary Earth Physics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 340 Earth and Planetary Inference (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • MATH 222 Calculus 3 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter

Complementary Courses (36 credits)

15 credits of advanced earth science (15 credits)

15 credits of advanced earth science

  • EPSC 355 Sedimentary Geology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 423 Igneous Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 425 Sediments to Sequences (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 445 Metamorphic Petrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 452 Mineral Deposits (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

3 credits of environmental and ore-forming processes (3 credits)

3 credits of environmental and ore-forming processes

  • EPSC 519 Isotopes in Earth and Environmental Science (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 325 Environmental Geochemistry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 549 Hydrogeology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 561 Ore-forming Processes (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 590 Applied Geochemistry Seminar (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 305 Soils and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

18 credits of other specializations can be drawn from the categories above or from: (18 credits)

18 credits of other specializations can be drawn from the categories above or from:

  • EPSC 331 Field School 2 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • EPSC 334 Invertebrate Paleontology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 470D1 Undergraduate Thesis Research (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 470D2 Undergraduate Thesis Research (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 482 Research in Earth and Planetary Sciences (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 501 Crystal Chemistry (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 520 Earthquake Physics and Geology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 522 Advanced Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 525 Microbiology of the Earth System (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 530 Volcanology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 547 Modelling Geochemical Processes (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 548 Igneous Petrogenetic Mechanisms (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • EPSC 567 Advanced Volcanology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

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