Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2145 - Missouri Board of Geologist Registration
Chapter 2 - Licensure Requirements
Section 20 CSR 2145-2.020 - Educational Requirements
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment clarifies the educational requirements.
(1) To be eligible for licensure, an applicant must have received a degree at the baccalaureate, master's, or doctoral level from a school, college, university, or other institution of higher education in the United States; which, at the time the applicant was enrolled and graduated, was accredited by a regional accrediting commission recognized by the United States Department of Education.
(2) Upon request by the board, the applicant shall furnish to the board competent and substantial evidence that the college or university is accredited by a regional accrediting commission recognized by the United States Department of Education. Regional accrediting commissions acceptable to the board are as follows:
(3) A school, college, university, or other institution of higher learning outside the United States which, at the time the applicant was enrolled and graduated, shall maintain a standard of training substantially equivalent to the standards of training of those institutions accredited by one (1) of the regional accrediting commissions recognized by the United States Department of Education and acceptable to the board.
(4) The applicant shall have completed at least thirty (30) semester hours or forty-five (45) quarter hours of credit in a course of study in geology, wherever it may be administratively housed. The course of study shall be clearly identified and designed to teach fundamentals of geology, including, but not limited to, the following areas of study: physical geology, earth materials, structural geology, and stratigraphy and sedimentation. The course of study shall also be designed to teach principles and practices of geology, including field camp or equivalent field study, and shall be designed to train the student to engage in the practice of geology.
(5) The following criteria shall be used by the board in evaluating the applicant's academic credentials:
(6) It shall be the applicant's burden to demonstrate his/her academic course work and training constituted a program of study in geology. The applicant shall request the school or university forward official transcripts and any other supporting evidence necessary to document the fact that these educational requirements have been met. A final determination of whether the program of study or course work which forms the basis of the applicant's thirty (30) semester hours or forty-five (45) quarter hours of credit in a course of study in geology is within the discretion of the board including, but not limited to, whether the courses or their equivalents stated in section (4) above are present.
*Original authority: 256.462, RSMo 1994 and 256.468, RSMo 1994, amended 1997, 2005.