1- Programme Title: ………Geology…………………………………………

2- Programme Type: Single ü Double Multiple

3- Department (s): Geology…………………………………………………

4- Coordinator:…Dr. Adel Waheed Felesteen………………………………

5- External Evaluator(s)…………………………………………….

6- Last date of programme specifications approval:………………

Professional Information

1- Programme Aims

To produce geologist who are capable

- to participate in carrying out geological survey of an area;

- to determine different types of minerals and rocks in field;

- to identify various types of fossils and to use them in dating and correlating stratigraphic successions in a region and

- to use various geological, geophysical and geochemical methods and tools in mineral, groundwater and petroleum exploration.

2- Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

a- Knowledge and Understanding:

a1- Recognition of different types of minerals, rocks and fossils.

a2- Studying the various types of geological, geophysical and geochemical mapping and how to construct and interpret them to understand the geologic setting of the stratigraphic successions.

a3- Knowledge of the various methods and tools used in mineral, ground water and petroleum exploration.

a4- Studying the earth’s major structural features produced by tectonic processes.

a5- Studying the main types of sedimentary environments.

b- Intellectual Skills

b1- Discrimination between the characteristic features and minerals for the different rock types.

b2- Using of fossils in dating and correlating stratigraphic successions.

b3- Interpretation of the geologic events and processes affected the earth’s surface in the past.

b4- How to infer the paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretations using the various types of fossils.

b5- Using different geological, geophysical and geochemical methods and tools in detecting economic ore deposits, petroleum accumulations and groud water aquifers.

c- Professional and Practical Skills

c1- Using the geophysical instruments to measure the various geophysical parameters.

c2- Using the surveying data to prepare maps and sections.

c3- Using well logs and samples for identifying various subsurface rock types.

c4- Collection and isolation of the various types of fossils.

c5- Studying the different types of rocks, minerals and fossils.

c6- preparation and interpretation of geological, geophysical and geochemical maps.

c7- Using of subsurface maps in studying the geological setting of subsurface strata and determination of their potential petroleum traps.

d- General and Transferable Skills

d1- Working in team and communication with the society organizations, especially the geological and environmental ones.

d2- Oral communication during class and lab activities as well as in the field trips.

d3- Using the computer in the preparation of geologic maps, figures, tables and diagrams.

d4- using the internet for collecting information about the various earth sciences.

3- Curriculum Structure and Contents

3.a- Programme duration: 4 years

3.b- Programme structure

3.b.i- No. of hours per week: Lectures: 134 Lab./Exercise: 126 total: 260

3.b.ii- No. of credit hours: Compulsory 260 Elective Optional

3.b.iii-No. of credit hours of basic sciences courses: No.: 256 % 98.5

3.b.iv- No. of credit hours of courses of social sciences and humanities: No.: 4 % 1.5

3.b.v- No. of credit hours of specialized courses: No.: 144 % 55.4

3.b.vi- No. of credit hours of other courses: No.: 116 % 44.6

3.b.vii Practical/Field Training: ……………………………………………

3.b.viii-Program Levels (in credit-hours system):