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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

Environmental Science: Individual Concentration


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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:


Individual Concentration in Environmental Science


In consultation with their academic advisor, students may select an individual course of study in areas such as Environmental Communications, Agriculture, Water Resources, and Human Ecology. Students interested in an Individual Concentration request an application from the department chair and work with their ENVS advisor to develop a course of study of at least 30 hours for the proposed concentration.

At least 15 of the 30 hours must be ENVS courses. Of the 15 hours in ENVS, 12 hours must be upper-level ENVS courses, and 7 hours must be field- or laboratory-based ENVS courses. Applications and course listings must be approved by the student’s ENVS advisor, the ENVS department chair, and submitted at the time the major is declared. The Individual Concentration requires the completion of all other requirements for the ENVS major as listed in I, II and III above.

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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