Program: Environmental Science: Individual Concentration - University of North Carolina Asheville

Environmental Science majors must fulfill the following requirements:

I. Required courses in the major—16 hours:

One course from:

ENVS 234 - Energy and Society (3)
ENVS 282 - Environmental Geology (3)
ENVS 334 - Environmental Policy (3)
Note: ENVS 334 is required for students completing the Environmental Management and Policy concentration.

At least three hours from:

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

CHEM 111 - General Chemistry Laboratory (1)
CHEM 132 - General Chemistry (3)
CHEM 145 - Quantitative Chemistry Laboratory (1)
MATH 167 - Precalculus (4)
STAT 185 - Introductory Statistics (4)
Note: MATH 191 may be taken in lieu of both MATH 167 and STAT 185.

One course from:

CHEM 231 - Organic Chemistry I (3)
CHEM 233 - Foundations of Inorganic Chemistry (3)
CHEM 236 - General Chemistry II (3)
Note: CHEM 233 or 236 is required for students completing the Geoscience concentration or Earth Science Teacher Licensure.

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