The Associate of Science degree in Geology is designed for students planning to transfer to a four-year college or university and pursue a Baccalaureate Degree Program in the Earth Sciences. The curriculum approximates the freshman and sophomore general education requirements of most four-year colleges and universities. As part of this degree program, students must complete the requirements of the Ohio Transfer Module in order to graduate.
Communicate effectively with others in various ways: oral, written, listening, reading, computer literacy; with diverse audiences.
Recognize the complexity of global resource sustainability issues, and natural hazard management in the context of geologic knowledge and application of geologic concepts.
Make observations, analyze and synthesize data from various sources and make interpretations. Identify Earth materials and make interpretations in-line with geologic concepts.
Careers in the Earth Sciences are highly diverse and in global demand. They can be found at local, state and federal levels, in private industry, and in education. Natural resource sustainability, global climate change, natural hazard management, water supply issues, and contamination remediation are continuing to be pressing, global issues that require involvement from Earth Scientists. Earth scientists also play an important role in the development of environmental policies and regulations.