Within the College of Arts and Science, the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment is one of only two institutions in the Southeast that offers a geophysics undergraduate degree. The department boasts a large and diverse faculty with broad scientific expertise.

The following courses fulfill some of the course requirements for a Bachelor of Science in Geophysics:

  • Internal Earth
  • Mountain Building: Structure and Tectonics
  • Plate Tectonics
  • Applied Seismology
  • Elementary Seismology
  • Seismic Reflection Interpretation
  • Introduction to Groundwater Modeling
  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Environmental Geophysics