Environmental SciencesMajor

FOUNDATION COURSES (All required)

• ENVS 130*: Environmental Sciences
• ENVS 131**: Intro to ENVS Field Studies
• ENVS 390: Seminar in Environmental Issues

*ENVS 120 or ENVS 140 may be substituted for ENVS 130
**ENVS_OX 131 fulfills the requirement of both ENVS 130 and ENVS 131

INTERMEDIATE BREADTH REQUIREMENTS: (Four courses, one from each area)

Methods (pre-requisite for all: QTM 100)

• ENVS 250: Fundamentals of Cartography and GIS
• ENVS 260: Quantitative Methods in ENVS
• ENVS 270: Environmental Data Science

Ecology, Conservation, and Health

• ENVS 232: Fundamentals of Ecology w/lab
• ENVS 240 or ENVS 240 w/lab: Ecosystem Ecology
• ENVS/BIOL 247: Ecology

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

• ENVS 222: Evolution of the Earth w/lab
• ENVS 229: Atmospheric Science w/lab
• ENVS 230: Introductory Geoscience w/lab
• ENVS 235: Environmental Geology
• ENVS 239: Physical Oceanography

Social Science and Policy

• ENVS 224: Economy and the Environment
• ENVS 225: Institutions and the Environment
• ENVS/POLS 227: Environmental Policy

UPPER LEVEL ELECTIVE COURSES

Choose any 4 departmental courses that are 200 level of above and at least three credit hours. At least two courses must be 300 level or above.

Note: 2 courses from Intermediate Breadth and/or Elective Categories must be field and/or lab courses

INDEPENDENT STUDY REQUIREMENT: Choose one, must be at least 4 credit hours

• ENVS 491: Service Learning in ENVS
• ENVS 494: Individual Research
• ENVS 495: Honors Research
• ENVS 497: Undergraduate Internship
• ENVS 498: Individual Directed Reading
• ENVS 499: Advanced Independent Research

CAPSTONE REQUIREMENT: Must take in final semester

ENVS 490: ENVS Senior Capstone Portfolio