The Earth Science concentration is designed for students who would like to gain significant experience in the geological sciences. This concentration is suitable for students from every division on campus, including humanities, social sciences, arts, and business and policy studies. For instance, an English major might go on to become a technical writer or editor; an art major might be interested in clay and glaze mineralogy or gemology; social scientists may wish to study GIS and mapping techniques; and pre-law students could go on to study environmental law. For majors in the other sciences, physics, chemistry and biology majors could all find the skills learned in the concentration useful to their future careers.  The most important and rapidly growing fields of science are those that are appearing at the boundaries of scientific disciplines.

The Earth Sciences concentration is not available for Geology majors.