Specific credit-hour requirements are described in Section 5. The Department currently has no specific curriculum for Ph.D. students, other than credit-hour and foreign language requirements described in Section 5. The specific course requirements in a student's Program of Study are in principle selected to meet the needs and career objectives of the individual. The Program of Study at both M.S. and Ph.D. levels can be changed only through the same process by which it was first formulated, including required approvals, as described above. Colloquia and Brown Bag Series Two particularly important departmental activities are the colloquia series and the Brown Bag series.
Colloquia involve formal presentations by invited speakers.
Colloquia topics involve all fields of the geological sciences, and speakers whose affiliations are international in scope, as well as faculty from Florida State University. The brown bag series involves weekly meetings in Room 104 at noon on Wednesdays. This series is intended to provide an opportunity for students, graduate and undergraduate, and faculty members to make informal presentations of ongoing research or new research ideas, or to lead general discussions of specific topic. Students are expected to participate in these activities.