Beginning with the fall 2009 semester, the University of Connecticut will be adding a major in geology to the Bachelor of Science degree. The Department of Geology and Geophysics had been dissolved in 2004. Since that time students were only able to receive a geology degree through the Individulaized Major Program.
The Center for Integrative Geosciences at UConn was formed in 2005. It consisted of classes and professors from many disciplines that overlapped with the geosciences. Many students continued to take geology courses and wanted to pursue a geology degree through the Individulaized Major Program and the Center for Integrative Geosciences, thus it was deemed it necessary to reinstate geology as an official major.
With this change, it will be easier for students to declare a geosciences major and the department will be able to actively recruit students.
To learn more about geosciences at the University of Connecticut please visit http://www.geosciences.uconn.edu/.
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