• 专业概况
• 所属院系
• 中国学生入学要求
• 课程信息

专业概况

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The Department of Geosciences offers M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs that provide students with a broad background in any of the major areas of geological sciences and intensive research experiences culminating in the preparation of a formal thesis. The goal of the programs is to prepare students for scientific careers in academia, government, or industry. A wide range of faculty interests and exceptional laboratory and other support facilities provide an extensive variety of areas of specialization in which students may choose their course work and research topics, which include: aqueous geochemistry; chemistry and physics of rocks and mineral; geodynamics; global change and earth history; sedimentary geology and paleobiology; solid earth and applied geophysics; surficial processes.

The research of faculty and students is facilitated through the Biogeochemical Research Initiative for Education (BRIE, an NSF-sponsored graduate program in microbial biogeochemistry), the Petroleum Geosystems Initiative (an industry-sponsored, team-based M.S. program) linking the Department of Geosciences and the Department of Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering and the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center (PSARC, an NSF-sponsored interdisciplinary program in the origin and evolution of life in the universe, aimed at understanding the connections between the environment and the biota on Earth, especially during the stages of its evolution) as well as the Environment Institute of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, including the Earth System Science Center, and the Center for Environmental Chemistry and Geochemistry.

In addition to extensive computing and supercomputing facilities developed in association with the Earth System Science Center, students have access to a wealth of analytical, experimental, and field equipment. State-of-the-art analytical equipment is maintained by the department and the Material Characterization Laboratory. The Department of Geography and the Office for Remote Sensing of Environmental Resources have remote sensing facilities.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Upon arrival, students will be advised initially by a committee appointed by the associate head for graduate program and research. The committee in turn will designate an interim adviser. Before the end of the first academic year of residence, the student is expected to develop specific academic and research interests so that an appropriate permanent academic adviser and research supervisor may be chosen. The academic adviser and research supervisor are usually the same person, except when the research supervisor is not a member of the geosciences Graduate Faculty. In such a case, a geosciences program family member serves as the academic adviser.

Master's degree students are required to take 30 credits at the 400, 500, 600, and 800 level, including at least 18 credits at the 500 to 600 level, combined. The 12 to 16 common degree credits described below satisfy the Graduate School minimum of at least 12 credits in course work in the major program.

As part of the M.S. program, each student is required to complete a thesis. The thesis must be defended in an oral examination administered by an M.S. committee. The thesis must be accepted by the advisers and/or committee members, the head of the graduate program, and the Graduate School.

All graduate students in geosciences are expected to acquire breadth of knowledge in the geosciences, a fundamental and advanced knowledge of their subdiscipline, and skills in the areas of data collection and quantitative analysis. Toward that end, all graduate students must select one of the approved courses in each of the following areas:

Geosciences Breadth -- 3-4 credits

Disciplinary Fundamentals -- 3-xad4 credits

Data Gathering -- 3xad-4 credits

Quantitative Analysis -- 3-4 credits

所属院系

进入哪个院系学习？ College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

中国学生入学要求

为来自中国的学生设计 Other English language requirements: TOEFL is 550 for the paper-based test, 213 for the computer-based test.

课程信息

学制：全日制(30 学分)

学费：US$39,216.00 (¥ 249,488) /年

开学时间：预计在八月 2022

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留学地点：Pennsylvania State University Park Campus201 Old Main,UNIVERSITY PARK,Pennsylvania,16802, United States