Geoscience - Environmental Science Option (B.S.)
Administered by Department of Geography and Geosciences
Effective Fall, 2007
The option in Environmental Science requires a total 66 to 68 credits in addition to General Education requirements, depending on choices of electives. A total of 120 credits is required for a bachelor's degree. Required courses include:
GEOG.105 Environmental Issues and Choices
GEOSCI.100 Environmental Geology
GEOSCI.120 Physical Geology
GEOSCI.121 Physical Geology Lab
GEOSCI.255 Meteorology
GEOSCI.259 Oceanography
Choose at least 15 credits from the following:
GEOSCI.260 Earth Materials
GEOSCI.265 Geomorphology
GEOSCI.320 Remote Sensing of the Earth
GEOSCI.360 Paleontology
GEOSCI.368 Stratification and Sedimentation
GEOSCI.369 Structural Geology
GEOSCI.370 Surface Hydrology
GEOSCI.460 Aqueous Geochemistry
GEOSCI.470 Groundwater Hydrology
GEOSCI.480 Applied Geophysics
GEOSCI.496 Internship in Earth Science
or up to nine credits from approved Marine Science courses
Choose two courses from the following:
GEOG.242 Map Skills
GEOG.301 Water Resources Management
GEOG.302 Land Resources Management
GEOG.304 Environmental Valuation
GEOG.342 Geographical Information Systems
GEOG.358 Environmental Conservation
GEOG.462 Techniques of Geographic Measurement
Required Biology courses:
BIOLOGY.114 Concepts in Biology I
BIOLOGY.115 Concepts in Biology II
Choose one course from the following
BIOLOGY.212 Vertebrate Zoology
BIOLOGY.250 Wetlands Ecology
BIOLOGY.252 Field Zoology
BIOLOGY.253 Freshwater Biology
BIOLOGY.260 Marine Ecology
BIOLOGY.351 General Ecology
Choose two from the following three courses:
CHEM.115 Chemistry for Sciences I
CHEM.116 Chemical for Sciences II
CHEM.231 Organic Chemistry I
Required Physics course:
PHYSICS.111 Introductory Physics I or PHYSICS.211 General Physics I
Choose two math courses: A maximum of one of the following two courses:
MATH.112 Trigonometry
MATH.114 College Algebra
Choose a minimum of one course from (both may be chosen from this group):
MATH.113 Pre-Calculus
MATH.123 Essentials of Calculus
MATH.125 Analysis I
MATH.126 Analysis II
MATH.141 Introduction to Statistics