Requirements

Environmental Studies

Requirements

R-MWC Major (B.A.) in Environmental Studies

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES MAJOR

Notes:

	Students will take five core courses and senior seminar as well as courses from all three distribution groups
	Two of the eight courses needed to satisfy all of the distribution requirements must be at the 300 level.
	One-time-only and special topics courses may be proposed on a course-by-course basis to fulfill a distribution requirement with permission of the chair of environmental studies.

Core courses: 5 courses, 15 credit hours

Courses Course Title Credit hours

EVST 101 Introduction to Environ. Studies I: Science 3

EVST 102 Introduction to Environ. Studies II: Social Science & Humanities 3

EVST 201 Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems 3

EVST 202 Environmental Policy 3

ECON 102R Principles of microeconomics 3

Distribution groups

I. Natural science: 4 of the following 13-16

	Four courses from at least two different departments. Up to two of the four courses may be at the 100 level.
	The four science courses total between 13 and 16 credits depending on the credit hour value of each course

Courses Course Title Credit hours

BIOL 103,100LR Introductory Biology and lab 4

BIOL 108,100LR Human biology and lab 4

BIOL 118 Evolution 3

BIOL 201-201L Zoology and lab 4

BIOL 202-202L Botany and lab 4

BIOL 319-319L Ecology and lab 4

BIOL 321 Animal behavior 3

BIOL 324-324L Ornithology-Mammalogy and lab 4

BIOL 328, 328L Plant diversity, evolution, and env. and lab 4

BIOL 329 Economic botany 3

CHEM 105-105L General chemistry and lab 4

CHEM 106-106L General chemistry and lab 4

CHEM 205-205L Organic chemistry and lab 4

CHEM 206-206L Organic chemistry and lab 4

CHEM 210-210L Analytic chemistry and lab 4

CHEM 286-286L Environmental chemistry and lab 4

CHEM 307, 308 Physical chemistry 3, 3

CHEM 335-335L Biochemistry and lab 3

EVST 315 Energy and Society 3

EVST 325-325L Global change and earth interactions and lab 4

PHYS 105-105L Introductory physics and lab 4

PHYS 106-106L Introductory physics and lab 4

PHYS 115-115L General physics and lab 4

PHYS 116, 116L General physics and lab 4

PHYS 251, 252 Modern physics 3, 3

PHYS 334 Electronics and modern physics laboratory 3

II. Social Science: 2 of the following 6

ECON 101R Principles of macroeconomics 3

ECON 220 Environmental economics 3

POL 113 Introduction to International studies 3

POL 322 Foreign Policy of the United States 3

POL 330 International Law and Organizations 3

POL 360 American Public Policy 3

PSYC 320 Environmental Psychology 3

SOAN 216 Contemporary Social Problems 3

SOAN 230 Technology and Social Change 3

III. Humanities: 2 of the following 6

AMC 106 Science and American Culture 3

AMC 202 The U.S. Cultural Environment 3

EVST/ENGL 305 Environmental literature 3

EVST/ENGL 306 Environmental writing 3

EVST 324 Worldviews, religion and the environment 3

EVST 326 Environmental Problems: History and Culture 3

PHIL 361 Environmental Philosophy 3

Senior seminar:

EVST 497 Senior Seminar 3

Total for B.A. Degree in Environmental Studies 43-46

RECOMMENDED COURSES:

Communication 211, 330; English 261R, 264; Mathematics 113R, 119R, 149R, 150R, 227; Philosophy 133, 214

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CONCENTRATION: six courses

Four of the following: (12 credits)

EVST 101 Introduction to Environ. Studies I: Natural Science

EVST 102 Introduction to Environ. Studies II: Social Science & Humanities

EVST 201 Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems

EVST 202 Environmental Policy

ECON 102R Principles of Microeconomics

…Plus one course from two of the three environmental studies distribution groups, one of which must be at or above the 200 level (6-7 credits, depending on credit hour value for courses from the science distribution group)

Total for the concentration in Environmental Studies: 18-19 credits

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