48 monthsProgramme duration
4,245 EURTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Geology
Degree
Other
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
The bachelor's degree in Geology offers the integrated training needed to become a good geologist, with quality lectures, compulsory work placements and fieldwork projects. Lectures are offered at the Faculty of Sciences together with other science degrees and the joint degree in Environmental Science + Geology, which fosters meeting and interacting with students from other bachelor's degrees. Guidance services: students can consult people with experience when choosing their optional credits, solving problems that may come up or planning their future professional careers; each student has a tutor assigned to them for any academic help they may need. Fieldwork: training to become a geologist at the UAB is largely oriented towards gaining practical skills; a total of 41 days out on the field are conducted during the degree:
- 21 days are included in four, 6-credit subjects. In your first year, you will have a fieldwork subject to become familiar with geology in Catalonia. In your second year, there will be a fieldwork subject in Geological Mapping in Móra d’Ebre where you will learn to make geological maps. In your third year, you will work on Variscan orogeny in a transversal E-W from the Picos de Europa to the Ortegal county in Galicia. In your fourth year, you will study the Pyrenees mountains from N-S, starting at the Aragonese Pyrenees and from E-W from the Central pre-Pyrenees range.
- 20 days fieldwork belonging to other subjects.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Geology
Degree
Other
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
The bachelor's degree in Geology offers the integrated training needed to become a good geologist, with quality lectures, compulsory work placements and fieldwork projects. Lectures are offered at the Faculty of Sciences together with other science degrees and the joint degree in Environmental Science + Geology, which fosters meeting and interacting with students from other bachelor's degrees. Guidance services: students can consult people with experience when choosing their optional credits, solving problems that may come up or planning their future professional careers; each student has a tutor assigned to them for any academic help they may need. Fieldwork: training to become a geologist at the UAB is largely oriented towards gaining practical skills; a total of 41 days out on the field are conducted during the degree:
- 21 days are included in four, 6-credit subjects. In your first year, you will have a fieldwork subject to become familiar with geology in Catalonia. In your second year, there will be a fieldwork subject in Geological Mapping in Móra d’Ebre where you will learn to make geological maps. In your third year, you will work on Variscan orogeny in a transversal E-W from the Picos de Europa to the Ortegal county in Galicia. In your fourth year, you will study the Pyrenees mountains from N-S, starting at the Aragonese Pyrenees and from E-W from the Central pre-Pyrenees range.
- 20 days fieldwork belonging to other subjects.
Admission Requirements
Secondary school diploma + University entrance exam (PAU) and CFGS (Advanced professional training)
Weighted subjects pertaining to the PAU specific phase:
- Biology (0.1)
- Earth and Environmental Sciences (0.2)
- Physics (0.2)
- Mathematics (0.2)
- Chemistry (0.2)
University access for people over 25 years
Sciences
Others
- Employment record for people over 40
- Entrance exams for people over 45 (Entrance mark: 5.500)
- Degree holders
- Change of studies and validations
- Candidates are required to submit references or letter(s) of recommendation for acceptance
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