Environmental Science Concentration

Core:

A major in biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, mathematics/physics, or physics and six additional courses as described below:

• Four science courses in two sciences outside the student’s major including two or three units in one science and one or two in another. Only two courses can be at the introductory level, which means they lack prerequisites. Courses are to be selected from the list below and in consultation with the department chair and the student’s major department. It is possible to substitute other upper-level science courses, depending on the interests of the student.
• One unit selected from the “Society and Culture” or “Language, Idea and Image” lists in the environmental studies major or one additional upper-level science course not in the student’s major.

• BIOL 195: Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity (1 Unit)
• BIOL 216: Vascular Plants (1 Unit)
• BIOL 225: Invertebrate Zoology (1 Unit)
• BIOL 227: Vertebrate Zoology (1 Unit)
• BIOL 237: Ecology (1 Unit)
• BIOL 332: Microbiology (1 Unit)
• BIOL 240: Conservation Biology (1 Unit)
• BIOL 365: Environmental Microbiology (1 Unit)
• CHEM 152: Principles of Chemistry (1 Unit)
• CHEM 154: Organic Structure and Reactivity (1 Unit)
• CHEM 200: Chemistry and Social Problems (1 Unit)
• CHEM 206: Chemical Analysis (1 Unit)
• CHEM 212: Organic Reactions and Mechanism (1 Unit)
• CHEM 327: Advanced Physical and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory (1 Unit)
• CHEM 337: Biochemistry (1 Unit)
• GEOL 101: Introductory Geology (1 Unit)
• GEOL 302: Ground Water (1 Unit)
• GEOL 205: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy (1 Unit)
• GEOL 208: Geomorphology (1 Unit)
• GEOL 211: Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (1 Unit)
• GEOL 216
• GEOL 306: Glaciers and Climate Change (1 Unit)
• GEOL 307: Environmental Geochemistry (1 Unit)
• GEOL 311: Advanced Geographic Information Systems (1 Unit)
• MATH 209: An Introduction to Statistics (1 Unit)
• MATH 141: Calculus of a Single Variable I (1 Unit)
• MATH 143: Calculus of a Single Variable II (1 Unit)
• CS 171: Introduction to Computer Science I (1 Unit)
• CS 173: Introduction to Computer Science II (1 Unit)
• PHYS 115: General Physics (1 Unit)
• PHYS 116: General Physics (1 Unit)
• PHYS 167: Analytical Physics I (1 Unit)
• PHYS 168: Analytical Physics II (1 Unit)

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• ENVN 220: Economics, Politics, and Environmental Policy (1 Unit)

Experiential Requirements:

• Attendance at a series of departmental colloquia each semester. In these, students who completed internships the previous semester will report on them, and other items of general interest, such as graduate schools and careers, will be discussed.
• An environmental research project, service project or internship. Students should have prior approval of the department chair, and must make a presentation in the collquium and submit a paper summarizing the experience.