Academic Accelerator - Bachelor of Science - Environmental Geology

Program Description

• The right amount of support when you need it.
• A seat in credit-bearing courses, so you can earn a full freshman year’s worth of credits while taking courses tailored to your needs as an international student. This will help you achieve your academic and career goals.
• English-language instruction designed around your social and academic needs.
• Integrated and cohorted courses, so you’ll be in some classes with U.S. students and others with your designated UDayton Global cohort.

The environmental geology program addresses the ever-growing need for environmental professionals through a multifaceted program emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of environmental problems.

To gain an understanding of the broad range of factors relevant to geology and environmental geology, you will take courses such as hydrogeology and geochemistry, along with other courses in biology, chemistry, and civil and environmental engineering. Additional courses with an environmental emphasis are available through the Perspectives in Global Environmental Issues Cluster, which examines environmental issues and their multifaceted scope and global extent.

In addition, you will have opportunities to collaborate with faculty conducting research on diverse issues related to environmental challenges such as the history and impacts of global climate change, wetlands restoration or risk evaluation based on field investigation of fault systems, landslides or volcanic eruptions.

Students with an interest in environmental policy can augment their degree in environmental geology with a minor in sustainability, energy and environment.

As an undergraduate, you can also earn a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS is the science of displaying and analyzing any feature or variable that can be shown on a map, from geologic formations to bodies of contaminated groundwater in an aquifer.