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2025-2026 Catalog

Environmental Science: Concentration in Ecology

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. Major competency:

Demonstrated in ENVS 480. A grade of C or higher is required to graduate.

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

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

One course from:

One course from:

ATMS 103 - Introduction to Meteorology (3)
ATMS 326 - Air Pollution Formation and Impacts (ENVS 326) (3)
CHEM 231 - Organic Chemistry I (3) (if not selected to fulfill the departmental chemistry requirement)
ENVS 105 - The Planet Earth (4)
ENVS 106 - Earth History (3)
ENVS 326 - Air Pollution Formation and Impacts (ATMS 326) (3)
ENVS 338 - Principles of Hydrology and Hydrogeology (4)
ENVS 363 - Environmental Geochemistry (3)
ENVS 385 - Soils (4)
PHYS 131 - Introductory Physics I (4)

One 3-4 hour advanced ENVS elective

18 hours of Ecology and Biology electives chosen from:

Note: the 18 hours must include at least three 4-credit courses; and at least 11 of the 18 hours must be taken in ENVS.