Geology with a Secondary Discipline

GEOL 1201 Principles of Geology I (4)

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: Credit or registration in MATH 1021, MATH 1022, MATH 1023, MATH 1550, or MATH 1551. Credit will not be given for this course and for GEOL 1001 and GEOL 1601 or GEOL 1002 and GEOL 1601. 3 hrs. lecture, 3 hrs. lab. For Geology majors and minors. Principles of physical geology with a focus on plate tectonics and on applying mathematics to solve geologic problems.

GEOL 1202 Principles of Geology II (4)

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: GEOL 1001 and GEOL 1601 or GEOL 1201 and credit or registration in MATH 1022, MATH 1023, MATH 1550 or MATH 1551. Credit will not be given for this course and GEOL 1003 and GEOL 1602 or GEOL 1004 and GEOL 1602. 3 hrs. lecture, 3 hrs. lab. For geology majors and minors. Principles of and techniques used in reconstructing Earth’s history.

CHEM 1201 General Chemistry I (3)

[LCCN: CCEM 1123, Chemistry I (Science Majors)] This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: credit or registration in MATH 1022, MATH 1023, MATH 1431, MATH 1550 or MATH 1551. Credit will not be given for this course and CHEM 1421. For science/engineering curricula. Modern chemical theories and principles; quantitative approach and problem solving; descriptive chemistry of selected elements and compounds.

CHEM 1202 General Chemistry II (3)

[LCCN: CCEM 1133, Chemistry II (Science Majors)] This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: CHEM 1201 or CHEM 1421. Credit will not be given for both this course and CHEM 1422. For science/engineering curricula. Continuation of CHEM 1201. Additional theory with emphasis on solution chemistry and a quantitative approach; descriptive chemistry of selected elements and compounds from the main groups and the first transition series.

MATH 1550 Differential and Integral Calculus (5)

[LCCN: MAT 2115, Calculus I] This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. An honors course, MATH 1551, is also available. Prereq.: An appropriate ALEKS placement score. MATH 1530 and MATH 1540, together, cover the material of MATH 1550.Credit will not be given for this course and MATH 1431, MATH 1510, MATH 1530, MATH 1540, or MATH 1551. Limits, derivatives, and integrals of algebraic, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions, with applications.

BIOL 1001 General Biology (3)

[LCCN: CBIO 1013, General Biology I] This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Credit will not be given for this course and BIOL 1201. For nonscience majors. Not for degree credit for a student majoring in a biological science. General concepts in cell biology, genetics, ecology and evolution.

ENGL 1001 English Composition (3)

[LCCN: CENL 1013, English Composition I] This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Placement by department. Introduction to analytical writing and research-based inquiry.

Soc. Sci.: Integrative Learning Core (General education) courses (3)

Total = 15 Credits

Total = 13 Credits

Semester 3 (Fall)

Semester 4 (Spring)

GEOL 2081 Mineralogy (4)

Prereq.: GEOL 1201 or GEOL 1601; CHEM 1201 or consent of instructor. Credit will not be given for this course and GEOL 3200. 3 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Elementary crystallography; mineral identification; general chemical and physical properties of minerals; environments of minerals.

GEOL 2XXX (3): E.g., GEOL 2001 or GEOL 2002

GEOL 2900 Introduction to Research in Geosciences (2)

 Prereq.: GEOL 1201 or GEOL 1601 or permission of department. 1 hr. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Introduction to the breadth of professional and research opportunities within geosciences.

PHYS 2002 General Physics II (3)

[LCCN: CPHY 2123, 2124, Physics II (Algebra/Trig Based)] This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: PHYS 2001 and MATH 1022 or MATH 1023 or MATH 1550 or MATH 1551. Credit will not be given for this course and PHYS 1202 or PHYS 2112, PHYS 2113. 3 hrs. lecture/demonstration. Mechanics, heat, sound, light, electricity and magnetism; topics in modern physics.

PHYS 2001 General Physics I (3)

[LCCN: CPHY 2113, 2114, Physics I (Algebra/Trig Based)] This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: MATH 1022 or MATH 1023 or MATH 1550 

PHYS 2002 General Physics II (3)

[LCCN: CPHY 2123, 2124, Physics II (Algebra/Trig Based)] This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: PHYS 2001 and MATH 1022 or MATH 1023 or MATH 1550 or MATH 1551. Credit will not be given for this course and PHYS 1202 or PHYS 2112, PHYS 2113. 3 hrs. lecture/demonstration. Mechanics, heat, sound, light, electricity and magnetism; topics in modern physics.

2nd Discipline Course (3)

CSC 1240 (3) or EXST 2201 (4)

CSC 1240 Statistics and Graphics with MATLAB (3)

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: MATH 1021 or placement in MATH 1022, MATH 1023, MATH 1431, MATH 1550 or MATH 1551. Credit will not be given for both this course and CSC 2262 or CSC 2533 or OCS 2011. Not for degree credit for computer science majors. 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Introduction to MATLAB programming with applications in statistics and graphics.

EXST 2201 Introduction to Statistical Analysis (4)

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: MATH 1021 or equivalent. 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Descriptive statistics; inferential statistical methods including confidence interval estimation and hypothesis testing for one and two population means and proportions; one-way analysis of variance; simple linear regression and correlation; analysis of categorical data.

2nd Discipline Course (3)

ENGL: any 2xxx level Integrative Learning Core (General education) courses (3)

Example: ENGL 2000 English Composition (3)

[LCCN: CENL 1023, English Composition II] This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: ENGL 1001 or equivalent and 39 total credit hours earned by the time of enrollment. Practice in argument writing and research-based inquiry.

2nd Discipline Course at 2XXX, 3XXX, or 4XXX level (3)

Total = 15 Credits (6 in 2nd Discipline)

Total = 18-19 Credits (3 in 2nd Discipline)

Semester 5 (Fall)

Semester 6 (Spring)

GEOL 3032 Introduction to Sedimentology and Depositional Environments (4)

Prereq.: GEOL 1202 or GEOL 1602; credit or registration in GEOL 2081 or consent of instructor. Credit will not be given for this course and GEOL 3200. One field trip and one field exercise in nearby area. 3 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Sediment types, textures, sedimentary structures and major minerals used to understand sedimentary processes leading to different depositional environments.

GEOL 3XXX or 4XXX level course (3)

GEOL 3061 Evolution of the Biosphere (4)

Prereq.: GEOL 1202 or GEOL 1602; credit or registration in GEOL 2081; BIOL 1201 or BIOL 1001. One or two field trips required.  3 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Characteristics and geologic history of selected taxa with significant fossil records; use of paleontologic data (paleobiologic, paleoenvironmental, geochemical and biostratigraphic) in geology and evolutionary studies; influence of the biosphere on Earth over geologic time.

GEOL 3XXX or 4XXX level course (3)

Art: any Integrative Learning Core (General education) courses (3)

For. Lang.: any Integrative Learning Core (General education) courses (4)

Soc. Sci.: any 2xxx level Integrative Learning Core (General education) courses (3)

2nd Discipline at 3XXX or 4XXX level (3)

2nd Discipline at 3XXX or 4XXX level (3)

Total = 14 Credits

Total = 16 Credits (6 in 2nd Discipline)

Semester 7 (Fall)

Semester 8 (Spring)

GEOL 3XXX or 4XXX level (3)

GEOL 3XXX or 4XXX level course (3)

GEOL 3XXX or 4XXX level (3)

GEOL 3XXX or 4XXX level course (3)

2nd Discipline at 4XXX level (3)

Humanities: any Integrative Learning Core (General education) courses (3)

2nd Discipline at 4XXX level (3)

Free Electives (8)

Humanities: any Integrative Learning Core (General education) courses (3)

Total = 15 Credits (6 in 2nd Discipline)

Total = 17 Credits

Semester 3 (Fall)

Semester 4 (Spring)

GEOG 4045 Environmental Remote Sensing (3)

May be taken for elective geology credit. Basic energy and matter relationships; principles of primary remote sensors; environment studied via remote sensing techniques.

GEOG 2040 Geospatial Technology (3)

Introduction to concepts and applications of modern geospatial technologies to various disciplines. Discusses the collection, input, storage, analysis, and visualization of spatial and attribute data

GEOG 4047 Geographic Information Systems (3)

Geographic information systems used in land resource management and planning; data structures and algorithms for automated retrieval and analysis of spatial data; structuring cartographic data into spatial data; integration of remotely sensed data into geographic information systems.

Semester 5 (Fall)

Semester 6 (Spring)

GEOG 4020 Aerial Photo Interpretation and Image Processing (3)

Credit will not be given for both this course and ANTH 4024. Analysis and mapping of geological features, hydrological process, land forms, cultural features, natural resource, and environmental phenomena from aerial photographs and satellite images.

GEOG 4046 Web GIS (3)

Visualizing, analyzing, and distributing spatial data via web technologies. Emphasis placed on how the technologies of web servers, geographic information system software, and database management systems interact to make map-enabled websites possible.

Semester 7 (Fall)

Semester 8 (Spring)

GEOG 4048 Methods of Spatial Analysis (3)

Mathematical, statistical and spatial analytical methods for handling and interpreting data related to geography.

GEOG 4044 Computer Cartography (3)

Semester 3 (Fall)

Semester 4 (Spring)

OCS 2007 Introduction to Marine Sciences: Geological and Physical (3)

No prereqs. Geological and physical processes in marine and aquatic environments; including their influence on coastal Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere

OCS 2005/2006 Gulf of Mexico (3)

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. An Honors course, OCS 2006, is also available. The four fields of oceanography (geological, chemical, physical and biological) as they relate to the Gulf of Mexico.

OR

OCS 2050 Coastal Systems Ecology and Ecosystem Design (3)

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Fundamental principles of systems ecology to instruct “systems thinking” to link natural and built infrastructure, processes, and ecosystem dynamics with focus on deltaic coasts; creating innovative methods to frame the complexity of designing more resilient coastal ecosystems (ecosystem design).

OCS 2008 Introduction to Marine Sciences: Life Processes (3)

No prereqs. Marine organisms, communities, ecological processes in marine and aquatic settings in coastal Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.

Semester 5 (Fall)

Semester 6 (Spring)

OCS 4210 Geological Oceanography (3) 

Prereq.: two-semester introductory course in geology. Principles of marine geology; sediments and sedimentation in the marine environment from the near shore zone to the abyssal plain; geological effects of bottom currents; sea-level history; geophysical techniques; continental drift and sea-floor spreading; tectonic history of the oceanic crust

OCS 4128 Wetland Hydrology and Hydrodynamics (3)

Prereq.: MATH 1550, MATH 1552, GEOL 1001 or equivalent. Basic surface water and ground water hydrology in wetland environments with an emphasis on hydrologic principles, application of hydrologic techniques to wetlands and understanding of hydrodynamics in these ecosystems.

Semester 7 (Fall)

Semester 8 (Spring)

OCS 3103 Global Environmental Cycles (3) 

Prereq.: CHEM 1201 and MATH 1550; credit or registration in BIOL 1201. Major hydrologic and elemental cycles on the planet, global change and processes, energy balance, including problems associated with climate, pollution, population and resources.

OCS 4170 Physical Oceanography (3)

Prereq.: two semester course in Physics and MATH 1552 or MATH 1554; or consent of instructor. Physics of the ocean; with emphasis on dynamical problems; general circulation of the ocean; physical properties of sea water; flow dynamics in the earth’s rotating coordinate system, estuarine and coastal ocean dynamics.

OR

OCS 4465 Coastal Zone Management (3)

Prereq.: permission of instructor. Field trips. Students are responsible for paying some expenses for field work. 2 hrs. lecture; 1 hr. lab. The science of restoration ecology and the practice of ecological restoration.

Semester 3 (Fall)

Semester 4 (Spring)

ACCT 2000 Survey of Accounting (3)

Prereq.: MATH 1021 or MATH 1029 or equivalent. Credit will not be given for both this course and ACCT 2001 or ACCT 2002. Students in nonbusiness curricula are advised to enroll in ACCT 2000 if they are given the option of ACCT 2000 or ACCT 2001, unless they plan to pursue a business degree at a subsequent date. All students in the E. J. Ourso College of Business are required to take ACCT 2001. Introduction to the meaning of the values presented in financial statements; management accounting concepts and internal decision making; fundamentals of individual income taxes.

FIN 3715 Business Finance (3)

Prereq.: ECON 2000 and ECON 2010, or ECON 2030; and ACCT 2000 or ACCT 2001. Credit will not be given for this course and FIN 3716. Not open to students in the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Finance function within the business enterprise; techniques of financial management, concepts of capital structure and dividend policy, working capital management, capital budgeting, institutional and international environment of the firm

ECON 2030 Economic Principles (3)

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. An honors course, ECON 2031, is also available. Credit will not be given for both this course and ECON 2000 or ECON 2010 or ECON 2031. Economic understanding of both micro- and macro-economic principles; problems associated with monetary policy, fiscal policy, public finance, government and business, labor, international trade, economic growth and comparative economic systems.

Semester 5 (Fall)

Semester 6 (Spring)

MGT 3200 Principles of Management (3)

Human Resource Management (Upper Level)] Management functions, including planning, organizing, staffing/human resource management, leading/interpersonal influence and controlling in both domestic and international spheres.

ECON 4325 Applied Resource Economics (3)

Prereq.: ECON 2000 and ECON 2010; or ECON 2030. Analysis of environmental and resource problems; cost-benefit and other empirical techniques used to examine these problems.
 

Semester 7 (Fall)

Semester 8 (Spring)

MKT 3401 Principles of Marketing (3)

An honors course, MKT 3402, is also available. Credit will not be given for both this course and MKT 3402. Lecture-discussion, case analysis, marketing-simulation game; the field of marketing; marketing environment, functions, and institutional structure at a macro level; marketing strategy and policies at a micro level; problems of cost and productivity; view points of society, consumer and marketing manager.

ECON 4320 Environmental Economics (3)

Prereq.: ECON 2000 and ECON 2010; or ECON 2030. Market failure and government failure, benefit cost analysis, the economics of energy, the efficient allocation of pollution, stationary and mobile source air pollution, water pollution and toxic wastes.

Semester 3 (Fall)

Semester 4 (Spring)

BIOL 1202 Biology for Science Majors II (3)

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Prereq.: BIOL 1201. Primarily for students in science, agriculture or education. Credit will not be given for this course and BIOL 1002. General concepts in evolution, ecology and the function of organisms.

(ASSUMES STUDENTS TAKE BIOL 1201 INSTEAD OF BIOL 1001 AND HAS ALREADY TAKEN BIOL 1208 LAB)

BIOL 2153 Principles of Genetics (4)

Prereq.: credit in BIOL 1202 and enrollment or credit in BIOL 1209, or credit in BIOL 1503; and enrollment or credit in CHEM 1202. 3 hrs. lecture, 1 hr. recitation. Fundamental laws of heredity.

BIOL 1209 Biology Lab for Science Majors II (1)

Prereq.: credit in BIOL 1208; credit or registration in BIOL 1202. Credit will not be given for this course and BIOL 1005. Primarily for students majoring in science, agriculture or education.

BIOL 2051 General Microbiology (4)

Prereq.: BIOL 1202, BIOL 1209 and CHEM 1202. Credit will not be given for both this course and BIOL 1011 or BIOL 1012. 3 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Structure and function of microbial cells and their relationship to people and the environment.

Semester 5 (Fall)

Semester 6 (Spring)

BIOL 3040 Evolution (3)

Prereq.: BIOL 2153. EXST 2201 recommended. Principles and processes in evolutionary biology.

BIOL 4253 Principles of Ecology (3)

Prereq.: BIOL 1202, BIOL 1209 and MATH 1552 or MATH 1554 or EXST 2201. Fundamental ecological principles governing the structure and function of populations, communities, and ecosystems; comparative habitat ecology.

Semester 7 (Fall)

Semester 8 (Spring)

BIOL 4262 Marine Communities (3)

Prereq.: BIOL 2153. Marine biology; ecology of benthic, planktonic, nektonic, estuarine, oceanic, coral and mangrove communities; emphasis on Louisiana’s coastal environments.

BIOL 4263 Marine Communities Laboratory (1)

Prereq.: Credit or concurrent enrollment in BIOL 4262 and permission of department.  Field service fee. 3 hrs. lab. Laboratory experiences in marine communities.

BIOL 4308 Plants in Coastal Environments (3)

Also offered as OCS 4308. Prereq.: one-semester course in biology or ecology or consent of instructor.  Weekend field trips as needed. Ecology of Louisiana’s major coastal plant communities; emphasis on influence of environmental factors controlling plant distribution and productivity; physiological, morphological and anatomical mechanisms aiding plant survival; man’s impact on Louisiana’s coastal plant communities.