Overview
With 4.6 billion years’ worth of records, as well as significant influences into modern global challenges, Geoscience has plenty to tell us. In this major, you’ll discover how our planet came to be what it is, the secrets hidden below its surface, and how this affects everything from ancient and modern climate, all the way to current interactions between the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere, implications for life on Earth through time, and our transition to a sustainable future. This will be accomplished through an exciting blend of field-based classes, laboratory analysis case studies and more.
Explore the origins of our planet and the processes that shaped it, and how these processes continue to change our planet, sometimes dramatically. You’ll be able to read the landscape at a whole new level, using several layers of information to comprehensively interpret the world around us, and even processes beyond our own planet.
Our economy, lifestyles, and even our health, rely in a large part on surface processes and the resources that lie below us. Through Geoscience you will be well equipped for career opportunities in research, environmental assessment and remediation, the minerals and energy industries, government, consulting, policy-making and beyond.