Environmental Science, B.S.

(40 credit hours)

Required:

CORE 140 - Sustainable Systems CR: 3 OR equivalent transfer credit
BIOL 324 - Ecology CR: 4
CHEM 131 - General Chemistry CR: 3
CHEM 141 - General Chemistry Laboratory CR: 1
ECON 101 - Principles of Microeconomics CR: 3
ENVR 205 - Environmental Field Methods CR: 2
ENVR 215 - Environmental Policy CR: 3
ENVR 216 - Mapping and GIS CR: 3
MATH 205 - Applied Statistics CR: 3

Senior Exercise:

ENVR 446 - Evaluation of Environmental Issues CR: 3

Additional ENVR courses:

Choose three additional 300-level ENVR courses, one of which must contain a lab.

Note: one of the following may be used to fulfill one of these requirements:

ENVR 451 - Senior Research in Environmental Science CR: 3
ENVR 377 - Internship CR: 1-3 (3 credits required)
HNRS 399 - Summer Honors Research CR: 3 (environmental science focus)

Choose 1 of the following courses:

Interested in Graduate/Professional Programs?

If you are interested in pursuing graduate or professional programs for environmental science, while there is a great deal of variation in environmental fields, the following courses may be recommended as part of or in addition to the requirements listed above:

BIOL 111 - Introduction to Organisms CR: 4
BIOL 214 - The Plant Kingdom CR: 4
BIOL 217 - Entomology CR: 3
BIOL 218 - Field Natural History CR: 4
CHEM 252 - Introduction to Quantitative and Analytical Chemistry CR: 3
CHEM 253 - Quantitative and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory CR: 1
ENVR 377 - Internship CR: 1-3
Courses in business, data science, economics, engineering, and/or political science