The location of Laurentian University in Sudbury offers ready access to a wide variety of geological environments embracing Archean volcanic and sedimentary belts, a Proterozoic sedimentary/volcanic belt, Grenville metamorphic terrains, and lower to middle Paleozoic sequences. This wide diversity of geological environments offers excellent opportunities for studies in economic geology, mineralogy, igneous and metamorphic petrology, stratigraphy, paleoecology, sedimentation, and structural geology. The Department offers graduate programs focusing on topics related to Precambrian mineral deposits, Archean greenstone belts, Southern Province geology (Huronian), and Paleozoic biostratigraphy-paleontology. For more detailed and accurate program requirements and descriptions please read below or you may visit http://calendar.laurentian.ca.
Professional Associations - Free membership dues for students
Association of Professional Geoscientists (APGO) - http://www.apgo.net/
Please visit the APGO website for more information on registration requirements.
Undergraduate Program Course Calendars
Contact Dr. Michael Schindler, mschindler@laurentian.ca, for more information on the Earth Sciences B.Sc. program and the new Environmental Geosciences stream.
B.Sc. Earth Sciences
This program applies to all students who enrolled in the Earth Sciences program after July 2008. It is designed for students with a strong background and interest in the physical sciences, chemistry, physics, and mathematics whose careers as geologists in the long term will be based in mineral exploration, the mining industries, governmental agencies, or the petroleum industry.
Current calendar
Earth Sciences B.Sc. flow chart - Download PDF
APGO Requirements
GEOL Codes
B.Sc. Environmental Geosciences Stream - NEW!
This field-based program is designed for students who are interested in the environmental component to the geosciences. It integrates such disciplines as Geology, Biology, Geography and Chemistry and prepares students for a long-term career within the environment (mining and the environment and environmental geochemistry).
Environmental Geosciences flow chart - Download PDF
Coop B.Sc. Option
The Coop Option in Geological Exploration is a limited enrolment program. Admission to the program is based on academic records and individual interviews through which such factors as motivation, interpersonal, and communication skills are evaluated. Entrance into the Coop Option in Geological Exploration occurs at the end of the winter term in second year of the 4-year B.Sc. Earth Sciences program. Interested students should indicate their interest in the program to the Chairman of the Department by the end of the first term in the student’s second year. Students entering the Coop Option within the 4-year B.Sc. Earth Sciences program must have a similar suite of courses to those in the listed program with a minimum grade point average of 70%, or be prepared to undertake additional courses on recommendation of the Undergraduate Advisor or Coop Coordinator. The deadline for application is December 31st. The following information is required for an application to the Coop B.Sc. Option:
Please send all applications to Dr. Harold Gibson (hgibson@laurentian.ca) or bring the application to room B8022.
The B.Sc.Enviornmental Earth Science Coordinator is Dr. Michael Schindler, please contact him at mschindler@laurentian.ca for all questions regarding the ENES program.