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Description
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Our Ph.D. program in
Geosciences offers a number of interdisciplinary courses
designed to provide students with skills useful in a variety
of fields. The courses were developed in recognition of the
fact that a fair number of our graduates will be employed in
fields outside of their discipline and, in many cases,
outside of the field of geosciences. We require all students
(M.S. and Ph.D.) to complete one course per category from a
total of four categories: Geosciences Breadth, Disciplinary
Fundamentals, Quantitative Analysis, and Data
Gathering.
The Geosciences Breadth
category contains courses that demonstrate the ways various
disciplines can contribute to the study of the dynamics of
Earth in space and time. The Disciplinary Fundamentals
category contains courses that present the fundamental
principles and theories of particular geosciences
disciplines. These courses were designed to ensure that our
graduates have a core understanding of their discipline. We
feared that some students; especially those coming to the
geosciences from other fields such as chemistry, physics,
and biology; were graduating with a suite of specialty
courses yet a gap in terms of the fundamentals of
geoscience. The Quantitative Analysis category contains
courses that address the ways in which mathematics can be
utilized in the geosciences. Lastly, the Data Gathering
category contains courses in laboratory and field
techniques.
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