General Education		Semester Hours
ACAD 101	Principles of the Learning Academy	1
Shared Skills and Proficiencies
Writing and Critical Thinking
WRIT 101	Composition	3
HMXP 102	Human Experience	3
CRTW 201	Critical Reading, Thinking & Writing	3
Oral Communication	See approved list; may be met by other requirement	0-3
Technology	Met in major with GEOG 305 or 308	0
Intensive Writing	Met in major with ENVS 490	0
Constitution Requirement	See approved list; may be met in major with ECON 103	0-3
Physical Activity	See approved list	1
Thinking Critically Across Disciplines*
Global Perspectives	See approved list; maybe met in major	0-3
Historical Perspectives	See approved list; may be met in major	0-3
Introducing Students to Broad Disciplinary Perspectives*
Social Science	See approved list; must include 2 designators; may be met in major	0-6
Humanities and Arts	See approved list; must include 2 designators; may be partially met in major	3-6
Quantitative Skills and Natural Science*	(3 courses)
Quantitative Skills	Met in major with MATH	0
Natural Science	Met in major with BIOL 220/222 and CHEM 201 or CHEM 211	0
Subtotal		14-35
Requirements in the Major		62-74
ENVS 101	Intro to Environmental Issues	3
ENVS 220	Environmental Career Exploration	1
ENVS 350	Special Topics in the Environment	3
ENVS 490	Senior Seminar in Environment	3
BIOL 220/222	Cell & Molecular Biology and lab	4
BIOL 221/223	Ecology, Evolution, Biodiversity and lab	4
CHEM 201 and 202, or CHEM 211 CHEM 204	General Chemistry General Chemistry Lab	4-7 2
GEOG 305 or 308	Intro to Geographic Info Systems, Intro to Geospatial Tech	3
GEOL 110 and 113	Physical Geology and Lab	4
MATH 101 or 151	Alg & Trig for Calculus, Applied College Algebra	3-4
PHYS 201 or PHYS 211	General Physics, Physics with Calculus	4
One course in statistics: MATH 141, QMTH/BSAN 205, PLSC 350 or PSYC 301		3-4
Environmental experiential learning: ENVS 461, 462, 463, or 495		0-3
Science/Math Electives Select additional courses numbered above 199 from at least 2 designators in BIOL, CHEM, ENVS 375, 376, GEOL, MATH, NUTR, PHYS or SCIE. (BIOL 300 is recommended.)		12-16
Environmental electives Select at least three courses with at least two designators from the following:		9
ANTH 326	Native Peoples and Environment	3
ANTH 350	Special Topics (when titled Food & Culture)	3
ANTH 540	Human Ecology	3
ECON 103 or 215, 343	Introd to Political Economy, Principles of Microeconomics, Environmental Economics	3
ENVS 350 or510	Special Topics (when different titles)	3
ENVS 375, 376	Field Studies in Environment, lab	4
GEOG 101 or 201	Human Geography, Geography of World Regions	3
GEOG 302	Geog Info Systems	3
GEOG 320	Remote Sensing/Environment	3
GEOG 305, 308, 315	Intro to Geog Info Syst, Intro to Geospatial Tech, Global Sust Development	3
HIST/PEAC 502	Social Movements in US Since 1960	3
PHIL 340	Environmental Ethics	3
PLSC 321, 325	Public Policy & Policy Analysis, Environmental Politics	3
PSYC 311	Ecological Psychology	3
SOCL 310	Sociology of the Environment	3
SUST 102, 300	Intro to Sustainability, Topics in Applied Sust	3
MGMT 330	Sustainable Business Practices	3
Foreign Language Requirement		3-8 ^
General Electives		3-41
Total		120

*Note: Because this is an interdisciplinary major, the two course rule is not in affect for these areas.

**Recommended

^This requirement may be met by a satisfactory score on a recognized examination or by passing any foreign language course numbered 102 or any course with 102 as a prerequisite.

BS-ENSC - Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science

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