Undergraduate Geology Education—The Carleton College Experience | NSTA

Undergraduate Geology Education—The Carleton College Experience

Journal of College Science Teaching—March/April 1997

At Carleton, students who discover geology as sophomores can start majoring by selecting from several courses in the second level and continuing on in a track that works. It also means that students who do not major in geology have an opportunity to do the same. Students have said that this distinguishing characteristic of the geology curriculum has given a great deal of freedom to design the sequence of courses that best fit their own circumstances.

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