GES at Hope College

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate GES coursework.

• GES 203Historical Geologyopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• GES 243Mineralogy: Earth Materials Iopens 2 courses (1.5 directly)
• GES 211Local Environmental Systemsopens 1 course (0.5 directly)
• GES 213Global Physical Systemsopens 1 course (0.5 directly)

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 GES 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 27 GES and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 25 more GES courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

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

The longest ladders

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

• 3 courses deep, ending at GES 244

  1. CHEM 125General Chemistry I
  2. GES 243Mineralogy: Earth Materials I
  3. GES 244Petrology: Earth Materials II

• 3 courses deep, ending at GES 351

  1. GEMS 157The Planet Earth
  2. GES 203Historical Geology
  3. GES 351Invertebrate Paleontology

• 3 courses deep, ending at GES 401

  1. CHEM 125General Chemistry I
  2. GES 211Local Environmental Systems
  3. GES 401Advanced Environmental Seminar

• 2 courses deep, ending at GES 215

  1. GEMS 130Introduction to Environmental Science
  2. GES 215Global Change - Humans and Biological Systems

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for GES yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under GES yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

GES does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Hope campus feed.