Environmental Science Major
The Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science has the following degree requirements.
Degree Requirements
Requirements for a major in environmental science:
| Biology Core Curriculum | 25 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 25 |
Organismal requirement (choose two from Category II)
BIO
| Category II course | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
Ecology/evolution/environmental biology requirement (choose three from Category III)
BIO
| Category III course | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Statistics requirement (choose one)
| BIO 230 | Experimental Design and Biostatistics | 4 |
| or | |
| MAT 201 | Introduction to Statistics | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 4 |
Collateral and prerequisite courses required for the major:
| CHE 310 | Analytical Chemistry | 4 |
| CHE 180 | Environmental Chemistry | 3 |
| WRI 281 | Technical Writing | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 11 |
Electives (choose one):
| COM 224 | Mass Media and Society | 4 |
| or | |
| GEO 202 | Physical Geography | 4 |
| or | |
| GEO 205 | Principles of Resource Utilization | 4 |
| or | |
| PHL 208 | Business Ethics | 4 |
| or | |
| PHL 210 | Environmental Ethics | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 4 |