GEOL at George Mason University

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate GEOL work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 62 GEOL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 44 more GEOL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on GEOL, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in GEOL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at GEOL 305

  1. GEOL 101Physical Geology
  2. GEOL 103Physical Geology Lab
  3. GEOL 102Historical Geology
  4. GEOL 104Historical Geology Laboratory
  5. BIOL 309Oceanography
  6. GEOL 305Environmental Geology

• 3 courses deep, ending at GEOL 120

  1. GEOL 121The Changing Ocean Laboratory
  2. GEOL 120The Changing Ocean

• 3 courses deep, ending at GEOL 412

  1. MATH 114Analytic Geometry and Calculus II.
  2. PHYS 160University Physics I.
  3. GEOL 412Physical Oceanography

• 3 courses deep, ending at GEOL 510

  1. GEOL 308Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
  2. GEOL 401Structural Geology
  3. GEOL 510Advanced Structural Geology

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GEOL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GEOL yet.

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Department events

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