Environmental Science: four-year plan

How to read this plan

This is a sample path to the B.S. in Environmental Science in four years at about 15–16 credits per term. Your actual plan depends on placement, transfer credit, a chosen concentration, and when courses are offered — build it with your adviser and check it against your degree audit. Course numbers link to the catalog.

Year 1 · Fall 14 credits

• UNIV 1000 First-Year Seminar (1 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)
• MATH 1400 Precalculus (4 cr)
• GEOG 1000 World Regional Geography (3 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)

Year 1 · Spring 16 credits

• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
• MATH 1600 Introductory Statistics (3 cr)
• GEOL 1010 Physical Geology (4 cr)
• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
• COMM 1100 Public Speaking (3 cr)

Year 2 · Fall 18 credits

• MATH 2400 Calculus I (4 cr)
• GEOL 1020 Historical Geology (4 cr)
• ENVS 1500 Introduction to Environmental Science (4 cr)
• Fine Arts elective (3 cr)
• Humanities elective (3 cr)

Year 2 · Spring 17 credits

• ENVS 2100 Environmental Chemistry (4 cr)
• GEOL 2100 Mineralogy (4 cr)
• Social Science elective (3 cr)
• Global Perspectives elective (3 cr)
• PHIL 2300 Ethics (3 cr)

Year 3 · Fall 12 credits

• GEOG 2100 Physical Geography (4 cr)
• GEOG 2200 Human Geography (3 cr)
• ENVS 2300 Geographic Information Systems (3 cr)
• Wellness elective (2 cr)

Year 3 · Spring 16 credits

• GEOL 2300 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (4 cr)
• GEOG 2300 Cartography and Map Design (3 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)
• COOP 2000 Cooperative Education (recommended) (0 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)

Year 4 · Fall 13 credits

• ENVS 2500 Ecology (4 cr)
• GEOG 2500 Introduction to GIS (3 cr)
• ENVS 3100 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)

Year 4 · Spring 13 credits

• GEOL 3100 Structural Geology (4 cr)
• GEOG 3100 Remote Sensing (3 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)
• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)