Students who return failing grades in a trimester amounting to 15 credits, or more, will be identified under the UCD Continuation – Academic Progress policy. Students whose rate of progression and performance over two academic years is deemed unacceptable will be referred to the Governing Board to be reviewed for exclusion from the programme.

Students who fail to progress from the stage of the programme they are registered to for more than two academic years (except where a period of Leave of Absence has been granted for one of those years) will also be contacted under the Continuation – Academic Progress Policy.

As Stages 3 and 4 have the most dynamic components of the programme, and the material studied previously may no longer be relevant, a student who has been away from the programme for a significant period should be required to register again to Stage 3. The upper limit for completion of Stages 3 and 4 should be six years if they choose to do 120 credits with 20 in each year.

Students take two core modules and the remaining 40 credits of options from within the BSc Programme and a further 10 credits as electives. GEOL20200 must be taken in either Stage 2 or Stage 3.

Module ID	Module Title	Trimester	Credits
Stage 2 Core Modules
GEOL20250	Crystals to Sedimentary Rocks	Autumn	5
GEOL20210	Field Geology and Mapwork	Spring	5
Stage 2 Core Modules
Stage 2 Options - B)MIN0OF: Recommended
GEOL20180	Geoscience perspectives on the UN Sustainable Development Goals	Autumn	5
GEOL10050	Earth and Humanity	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
GEOL20110	Global Environmental Change	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
GEOL20240	Medical Geology	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
GEOL10040	Earth, Environment and Society	Spring	5
GEOL20230	History of life on Earth	Spring	5
Stage 2 Options - B)MIN0OF: Recommended
Stage 2 Options - C)MIN0OF: GEOL20200 must be taken in either Stage 2 or Stage 3.
GEOL20200	Dynamic Earth	Autumn	5
Stage 2 Options - C)MIN0OF: GEOL20200 must be taken in either Stage 2 or Stage 3.