Environmental Science Major

Curriculum Effective for Majors Declaring during or after the Fall Semester, 2011

Courses Required Outside EEBIO and EENS (Five Courses)

• MATH 1210 – Calculus I
• MATH 1220 – Calculus II
• CHEM 1070/1075 – General Chemistry I and General Chemistry Laboratory I
• CHEM 1080/1085 – General Chemistry II and General Chemistry Laboratory II
• CHEM 2410/2415 – Organic Chemistry I and Organic Chemistry Laboratory or CHEM 2500 – Environmental Chemistry

Foundational Courses (Two Courses)

• EEBIO 1010/1015 – Diversity of Life and Diversity of Life Laboratory
• EENS 1300/1305 – Earth as a Living Planet and Earth as a Living Planet Laboratory

Core Courses (Seven Courses)

• EBIO 2020 – Theory and Methods of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• EBIO 2050 – Global Change Biology
• EENS 2070 – Weather and Climate
• EENS 3170 – Geomorphology
• EBIO 3040/3045 – General Ecology and Laboratory
• EENS 4020 – Geostatistics
• EENS 3150/3151 – Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Elective (Five Courses)

• Any four EENS courses
• Capstone experience: Environmental Science Capstone Course (EENS 4940) or Environmental Science Research Capstone (EENS 4950), or Environmental Field Study (EENS 3980) or Honors thesis (EENS 4990-5000)