MS Geophysics
Semester Credit Hours (Courses)
1 12 CH (4 Compulsory Courses)
2 12 CH (4 Elective Courses)
3 03 CH (Thesis)
4 03 CH (Thesis)
Total Credit Hours 30

Compulsory Courses

Course Code Course Title Credit Hours
GEO 761 Unconventional
energy Resources
3
GEO 748 Advanced Seismic Stratigraphy 3
GEO 781 Advanced Seismic Techniques 3
ESC 701 Research Methodology 3

List of Elective Courses

Course code Course Title Credit Hours
GEO 741 Applications of GIS in
Geoscience
3
GEO 701 Global Tectonics 3
GEO 705 Sedimentary Petrology 3
GEO 766 3D Seismic Data interpretation 3
GEO 770 Applications of
Geostatistics in Geosciences
3
GEO 786  Reservoir Geomechanics 3
GEO 707 Basin Analysis 3
GEO 708  Stratigraphic analysis and Petroleum Prospects 3
GEO 745 Petrophysical Analysis 3
GEO 747 Drilling Operations and Well Site Geology 3
GEO 710  Groundwater development and
management
3
GEO 731  Techniques in Structural Geology 3
GEO 717 Seismic Data conditioning and analysis 3
GEO 715 Advances in Exploration Geophysics 3
GEO 744  Borehole Geophysics 3
GEO 713 Applied Seismology 3
GEO 724  Clastic Sedimentology 3
GEO 725 Non clastic Sedimentology 3
GEO 743  Advanced Earthquake Seismology 3
GEO 714  Mining Geophysics 3
GEO 728  Groundwater Modeling 3
GEO 749 Near Surface Geophysics 3
GEO 730 Advanced Marine Geology 3
GEO 734  Reservoir Geology 3
GEO 763 Gravity and Magnetic
Exploration Techniques
3
GEO 749  Near Surface Geophysics 3
 GEO 757 Electrical Exploration Techniques 3
ENV 740 Climate Crisis Adaption and Mitigation 3
ENV 713  Health Safety and
Environment
3
GEO 702  Geophysical Exploration Technique 3
GEO 719  Coal Geology 3
GEO 760 Practical
Technology Use in the Geoscience
3
GEO 703  Advanced petroleum system Analysis 3
ENV 704  Environmental Impact
Assessment
3
GEO 605 Applications of Geostatistics in Geosciences 3
GEO 716  Environmental Geophysics 3
GEO 771 Engineering Geophysics 3
CSC 719  Machine Learning 3
GEO 712 Mineral prospecting and Exploration 3
THS 799 MS Thesis 6
Any other relevant course from Geology and Environmental Science disciplines