Elective courses | BSc in Earth Science, by distance
You are welcome to choose any elective geoscience course that you would like, from the following courses that we offer.
You may follow one of our suggested packages of courses, or you may mix and match to build your own package of electives.
(A clickable full list of electives is further down the page.)
If you would like to follow a broad package of electives, we recommend that you take the core courses listed under each package above.
You are also entitled to take our on-campus courses and include these as geoscience electives in your degree. You may also take up to 15 hp of Introductory Courses (lifelong learning) in your degree, and these may be used towards your Year 3 free elective courses.
Find out about our campus courses and our introductory courses in Geological Sciences and in Physical Geography
Our full list of elective courses, 2025–26:
- Mineralogy (7.5 credits) given for the final time in VT26
- Climate Variability (7.5 credits) Autumn term
- Geochemistry (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
- Structural Geology (7.5 credits) Spring term
- Igneous Petrology (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
- Metamorphic Petrology (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
- Sedimentology (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
- Biogeography (7.5 credits) Spring term
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
- Cartography and Graphic Design (15 credits, course page only in Swedish) Spring term
- Marine Geophysics (7.5 credits) Spring term
- Marine Petrophysics (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
- Paleoclimatology and the ocean system (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
- Critial steps in the Evolution of Earth and life (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
- Tectonics (7.5 credits) Spring term
- Petrogenesis (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
- Geology of Sweden (7.5 credits) Autumn/Spring term
Last updated: 2025-08-28
Source: Department of Geological Sciences