The department offers a program leading to a BS degree in Geophysics with honors. The honors program is open to students with a grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.5 in all courses required for the Geophysics major and a minimum of 3.0 in all university coursework. The guidelines are:

Select a research project, either theoretical, field, or experimental, that has the approval of an advisor.
Submit a proposal to the department, which decides on its suitability as an honors project. Qualified students intending to pursue honors are encouraged to apply to the program during winter quarter of their junior year.
The advisor assigns course credit for the project within the framework of the course Honors Program.
Whether a given independent study project merits an award of honors is made jointly by the department and the student’s advisor. This decision is based on the quality of the honors work and the student’s other work in Earth Sciences.
The work done in the honors program cannot be used as a substitute for regularly required courses.

GEOPH-BS - Geophysics (BS)

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