Geosciences (undergraduate)

The undergraduate course in Geosciences provides basic scientific knowledge about the lithosphere, the hydrosphere and the atmosphere, about biological factors and the interrelationships between these spheres, as well as about environmental and application-related topics and leads to a first professional university degree.

Compulsory modules (examples):

• General inorganic chemistry
• Soil science
• Introduction to exploration geophysics
• Introduction to geophysics
• Experimental physics
• Hydrogeology
• Mapping
• Mechanics
• Petrology
• Environmental geosciences/georessources

Elective modules (examples):

• General paleontology
• Introduction to polarization microscopy
• Geological maps and profiles and exogenous dynamics
• Geobiology
• Geodesy
• Geophysics/data analysis
• Rock-forming minerals
• Rock physics
• Ecology and evolution
• Thermodynamics and phase theory

Practical study content:

• Internships if necessary (e.g. in companies, engineering offices, federal or state geoscientific offices or at the university, possibly also abroad)