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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

Environmental Science: Concentration in Ecology


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Environmental Science majors must fulfill the following requirements:


One course from:


II. Required courses outside the major—12-16 hours:


One course from:


III. Departmental Competency


Major competency is satisfied in ENVS 480, which must be completed with a grade of C or higher.

IV. Special departmental requirements—28–31 hours, depending on concentration:


Concentration in Ecology—at least 28 hours distributed as follows:


One 3-4 hour advanced ENVS elective


Liberal Arts Core (LAC)


For additional information about the Liberal Arts Core and the specific courses that fulfill the requirements, visit the Office of the Registrar website, https://registrar.unca.edu/liberal-arts-core.

Liberal Arts Core Requirements

Courses that satisfy some of the following LAC requirements can be found throughout the curriculum and may be used to fulfill multiple requirements.
 

Requirement Credits
First-Year Seminar 3-4
Academic Writing and Critical Inquiry 4
Humanities 12
Laboratory Science 4
Scientific Perspectives 3-4
Quantitative Perspectives 4
Social Science 3-4
Second Language (proficiency through the 2nd semester) 0-8
Arts and Ideas 3-4
Senior Capstone 4
Diversity Intensive (DI and DI-R) 6-8

 

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