The Harquail School of Earth Sciences offers a BSc in Earth Sciences as well as minors in Earth Sciences (Geology). Program objectives, admission requirements, and program requirements are described on the pages below. The Earth Sciences program is designed ensure that students meet the knowledge requirements for professional registration as a geoscientist with Professional Geoscientists Ontario (PGO). Admission into the BSc Environmental Geoscience program is suspended as of April 12, 2021.
This program is designed for students with an interest in obtaining a degree in geology with interests in the physical sciences, chemistry, physics and mathematics, whose career as geologists in the long term will be based in mineral exploration, geological mapping, governmental geoscience or consulting agencies, or who have a desire to advance to a graduate-level program in earth sciences.
Course requirements and GEOL codes
