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Earth, Environmental, & Atmospheric Sciences Living Learning Community


 

The Earth, Environmental, & Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS) Living Learning Community is for first-year students with majors in environmental, geographic, geological, meteorological, emergency management/disaster, and sustainability sciences.

 


This LLC provides a residential environment that fosters peer networking and academic success for first-year students.  Students in the EEAS LLC enroll in up-to-two courses each semester, engage with their LLC Fellow, and benefit from programming tailored to their needs and interests. 

 

Located in Regents Hall*

*Subject to change


Satisfies major and general education requirements

 

Fall Semester

GEOL 111    The Earth    3 Hours

The study of Earth including rocks, mineral resources, energy, soils, surface geologic processes, earthquakes and Earth's interior, global tectonics, hydrology, and environmental geology. Students electing to meet their general education laboratory requirement through GEOL 113 must simultaneously enroll in the GEOL 111 lecture course. Laboratory is required for Geology majors and some prospective science teachers, but is optional for most others. Colonnade/Statewide General Education Code E-NS | NS

Recent Term(s) Offered: winter 2024; spring 2024; summer 2024; fall 2024; winter 2025; spring 2025; summer 2025; fall 2025; winter 2026; spring 2026; summer 2026; fall 2026

 

Spring Semester

GEOL 112    Earth's Past and Future    3 Hours

Deep time study of Earth, life, and climate to understand how the plantet - our only home - has changed in the past and what this means for the future of human species. Students electing to meet their general education laboratory requirement through GEOL 114 must simultaneously enroll in GEOL 112. Laboratory (GEOL 114) is required for Geology majors and some prospective science teachers, but is optional for most others. Colonnade/Statewide General Education Code E-NS | NS

Recent Term(s) Offered: spring 2024; fall 2024; spring 2025; fall 2025; spring 2026; fall 2026

 

 

WKU Department of Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences

Contact: llc@wku.edu

Living Learning Community options and locations may be subject to change.

 

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