Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Earth Sciences with Concentration in Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoecology

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  • Objectives
    Carleton’s Earth Sciences department offers a field-based comprehensive education that leads to exciting summer and full-time employment.
  • Practical experience
    The curriculum includes a strong hands-on component, with second-year field camps in Ontario (Kingston and north of Kaladar, Ontario), and a fourth-year trip to more exotic places to observe famous geological features at first hand (western Canada, western U.S.A., Hawaii, the Caribbean, Germany, Italy).
  • Academic title
    Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Earth Sciences with Concentration in Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoecology
  • Course description
    Earth Sciences with Concentration in Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoecology B.Sc. Honours (20.0 credits)

       1. Credits Included in the Major CGPA (10.5 credits):

       1. 1.0 credit in ERTH 1006 and ERTH 1007;
       2. 3.0 credits in ERTH 2101, ERTH 2102, ERTH 2311, ERTH 2312, ERTH 2406, ERTH 2801;
       3. 2.0 credits in ERTH 3201, ERTH 3111, ERTH 3112, ERTH 3113;
       4. 0.5 credit in ERTH 4003 or ERTH 4808;
       5. 1.0 credit in ERTH 4908 [1.0];
       6. 3.0 credits from NSCI 1000, BIOL 3104, BIOL 3501, (BIOL 3601 or BIOL 3602), BIOL 3802, BIOL 3605, BIOL 3609, BIOL 3611, BIOL 4500, GEOM 3002, GEOG 3102, GEOG 3104, ERTH 2401, ERTH 2405, ERTH 2802, ERTH 3205, ERTH 3805, ERTH 4005, ERTH 4303, ERTH 4304, ERTH 4305, ERTH 4306, ERTH 4307, ERTH 4802;

       2. Credits Not Included in the Major CGPA (9.5 credits):

       7. 2.0 credits in BIOL 2001, BIOL 2104, BIOL 2600, STAT 2507;
       8. 3.5 credits in BIOL 1003, BIOL 1004, CHEM 1000  [1.0], MATH 1007, MATH 1107, PHYS 1007;
       9. 0.5 credit Science Faculty Electives;
      10. 2.0 credits in Approved Arts or Social Sciences;
      11. 1.5 credits in free electives.

    • ERTH 1001 - Discovering Earth Sciences
    • ERTH 1003 - Natural Disasters
    • ERTH 1006 - Exploring Planet Earth
    • ERTH 1007 - The Dynamic Earth: Plate Tectonics
    • ERTH 2001 - Co-operative Work Term Report 1
    • ERTH 2101 - Geochemistry of Earth Systems
    • ERTH 2102 - Mineralogy to Petrology
    • ERTH 2311 - Earth's Paleogeography
    • ERTH 2312 - Paleontology
    • ERTH 2401 - Dinosaurs
    • ERTH 2402 - Climate Change: An Earth Sciences Perspective
    • ERTH 2403 - Introduction to Oceanography
    • ERTH 2404 - Engineering Geoscience
    • ERTH 2405 - Geophysical Methods
    • ERTH 2406 - Geology and Map Interpretation
    • ERTH 2414 - Applied Geoscience
    • ERTH 2801 - Outcrops to Basins
    • ERTH 2802 - Field Geology
    • ERTH 3001 - Co-operative Work Term Report 2
    • ERTH 3002 - Gemology
    • ERTH 3111 - Vertebrate Paleontology I: Mammalian Paleontology and Evolution
    • ERTH 3112 - Paleontology and Evolution of Lower Vertebrates
    • ERTH 3113 - Geology of Human Origins
    • ERTH 3201 - Applied Sedimentology
    • ERTH 3202 - Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology
    • ERTH 3204 - Mineral Deposits
    • ERTH 3205 - Physical Hydrogeology
    • ERTH 3805 - Geodynamics
    • ERTH 3806 - Structural Geology
    • ERTH 4001 - Co-operative Work Term Report 3
    • ERTH 4003 - Directed Studies in Geology
    • ERTH 4005 - Micropaleontology
    • ERTH 4107 - Geotechnical Mechanics
    • ERTH 4303 - Resources of the Earth
    • ERTH 4304 - High Resolution Stratigraphy
    • ERTH 4305 - Carbonate Sedimentology
    • ERTH 4306 - Resource Basin Analysis
    • ERTH 4307 - Coastal Geology
    • ERTH 4402 - Structural Geology
    • ERTH 4403 - Tectonic Evolution of Canada
    • ERTH 4503 - Crystalline Rock Petrogenesis
    • ERTH 4707 - Engineering Seismology
    • ERTH 4801 - Physics of the Earth
    • ERTH 4802 - Geochemistry and Isotope Geology
    • ERTH 4804 - Exploration Geophysics
    • ERTH 4807 - Field Geology III
    • ERTH 4808 - Vertebrate Paleontology Field Camp
    • ERTH 4908 - Honours Thesis

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