Undergraduate Curricular Requirements

 GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES (B.S.) - HYDROGEOLOGY OPTION  

The Department of Geological Sciences offers a B.S. Geology degree with a Hydrogeology option.

The Hydrogeology option allows students to concentrate on water related coursework and training 

leading to potential employment upon graduation as a hydrogeologist, or admission into one of 

many water related graduate programs throughout the United States. 

Please contact Jim Osiensky at osiensky@uidaho.edu for more information

Required course work includes the university requirements 

(see regulation J-3) and:

Chem 111  Principles of Chemistry I (4 cr)

Chem 112  Principles of Chemistry II (5 cr)

Engl 317  Technical Writing (3 cr)

Geog 385  GIS Primer (3 cr)

Geol 101 or 111  Physical Geology (4 cr)

Geol 102  Historical Geology (4 cr)

Geol 249  Mineralogy and Optical Mineralogy (4 cr)

Geol 290  Field Geology I (3 cr)

Geol 324  Principles of Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (4 cr)

Geol 326  Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (4 cr)

Geol 345  Structural Geology (4 cr)

Geol 422  Principles of Geophysics (3 cr)

Geol 423  Principles of Geochemistry (3 cr)

Geol 490  Field Geology II (3 cr)

Geol 309  Ground Water Hydrology or Hydr 409  Quantitative Hydrogeology (3 cr)

Geol 410  Techniques of Ground Water Study (3 cr)

Math 170  Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (4 cr)

Math 175  Analytic Geometry and Calculus II (4 cr)

Stat 251  Statistical Methods or 301  Probability and Statistics (3 cr)

Phys 111-112 General Physics I-II or Phys 211-212  Engineering Physics I-II (8 cr)

Plus the completion of at least 9 credits of Hydrogeology 

electives approved by the advisor, and at least 6 of the 9 credits

must be in Hydr courses.

Hydrogeology electives selected from the following:

BAE 351  Hydrology (3 cr) or BAE 450 Environmental Hydrology (3 cr)

CE 421  Engineering Hydrology (3 cr)

ChE 470/570  Hazardous Waste Management (3 cr)

Engr 210  Engineering Statics and Engr 335 Engr Fluid Mechanics (6cr)

Geol 578  Advanced Geochemistry of Natural Waters (3 cr) 

Hydr 409/509  Quantitative Hydrogeology (3 cr)

Hydr 412/512  Environmental Hydrogeology (3 cr)

      Hydr 413/513  Ground Water Resource Evaluation (3 cr)

Hydr 414/514  Ground Water-Surface Water Interaction (3 cr)

Hydr 418/518  Geomicrobiology (3 cr) 

Hydr 464/564  The Geochemistry of Natural Waters (3 cr)

Hydr 468  Aquifer Test Design and Analysis (3 cr)

Hydr 496  Hydrogeology Senior Thesis (3 cr) 

Hydr 576  Fundamentals of Modeling Hydrogeologic Systems (3 cr) 

Math 275  Analytic Geometry and Calculus III (3 cr)

Math 310  Ordinary Differential Equations (3 cr)  

Soil 205, 206 The Soil Ecosystem and Lab (4 cr) and Soil 415 Soil and Environmental Physics (3 cr)

Stat 428 Geostatistics (3 cr)

Please visit the Dept. of Geological Sciences at http://www.geology.uidaho.edu/welcome  

for further information.