Earth Sciences Admission Requirement
Admission Requirement
Admission Requirements for Earth Sciences
PROGRAMME OFFERED
(i) B.Sc. (Hons.) Geology
(ii) B.Sc. (Hons.) Applied Geophysics
PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES
The undergraduate programmes in Geology and Applied Geophysics are designed to equip students with the basic skills needed for serving in a professional capacity in most of the fields in which highly qualified geologists and geophysicists are needed in Nigeria and other countries of the world.
This objective is achieved by providing effective, practically oriented and academically sound programmes (in teaching and supervised independent field work) in specialized areas such as geological mapping, hydrogeology, engineering geology, petroleum geology, geochemistry, economic geology, sedimentology, micropaleontology, palynology, mineral exploration, groundwater investigation and development, foundation-engineering (dam-site, road, and building), geothermal resources exploration, earth movements and earthquake engineering, nuclear waste-storage site evaluation and environmental pollution.
In addition to requiring students to take the compulsory foundation and departmental courses, the programme broadens their knowledge by making them select appropriate elective courses from other departments within and outside the Faculty of Science.
The Department also exists to offer mission-oriented consultancy service to its immediate constituency in Ondo State (endowed with crude oil, bitumen and tar sand) in particular and Nigeria in general.
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