# Geology (GEOL) courses

Berkeley City College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 2 courses

Source: https://bcc.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/39665/39964/39687

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### GEOL 10 — Introduction to Geology

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **C-ID:** GEOL 120
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/geol.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 5; Cal-GETC Area 5A;

Survey of the structure and materials that compose the earth's surface and geologic processes responsible for shaping the earth: Nature and role of rocks and minerals; environmental processes and problems; dynamics of volcanism, earthquakes, plate tectonics, metamorphism, running water, ground water, glaciation, weathering, and erosion. Not open for credit to students who have completed or are currently enrolled in GEOL 1.

### GEOL 10L — Introduction to Geology Laboratory

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** 3 hours lab
- **Prerequisite:** GEOL 010 or
- **Corequisite:** GEOL 010
- **C-ID:** GEOL 120L
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Cal-GETC Area 5C;

The laboratory component of Geology 10: Exercises on plate tectonics, analysis and identification of rocks and minerals, metamorphism, geologic structures, topographic and geologic maps, landscape development, seismology, hydrology, geological oceanography, geologic time, earth history, energy, and climate change.