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Environmental Science
Environmental Science
Minor
Hours
17 Credit Hours
Program Requirements
requirement 1
Complete 2 courses
Environmental science core courses:
PWS 150 - Environmental Biology
3.0
PWS 375 - Environmental Policies and Laws
3.0
requirement 2
Complete 11.0 hours from the following option(s)
Complete a minimum of 11 credit hours from the following course lists. AT LEAST 6.0 HOURS MUST BE FROM GROUP 2.1.
option 2.1
Complete up to 11.0 hours from the following course(s)
Complete at LEAST 6 HOURS of the following supporting core courses:
PWS 282 - (Not currently offered)
PWS 283 - (Not currently offered)
PWS 305 - Soil and Water
3.0
PWS 365 - Environmental Microbiology and Biogeochemistry
3.0
PWS 366 - Environmental Microbiology and Biogeochemistry Laboratory
1.0
PWS 490 - Case Studies
2.0
PWS 494R - Mentored Learning Experience
6.0v
You may take this course up to 1 time.
option 2.2
Complete up to 5.0 hours from the following course(s)
Complete up to 5 hours from the following:
BIO 220 - Biological Diversity: Animals
4.0
BIO 370 - Bioethics
2.0
BIO 441 - Entomology
3.0
CHEM 101 - Introductory General Chemistry
3.0
CHEM 105 - (Not currently offered)
CHEM 106 - (Not currently offered)
CHEM 107 - General College Chemistry Laboratory
1.0
CHEM 223 - Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
4.0
CHEM 227 - Principles of Chemical Analysis
4.0
CHEM 285 - Introductory Bio-organic Chemistry
4.0
CHEM 351 - Organic Chemistry 1
3.0
CHEM 352 - Organic Chemistry 2
3.0
CHEM 353 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory--Nonmajors
2.0v
CHEM 481 - Biochemistry
3.0
ECON 440 - Natural Resources and Environmental Economics
3.0
GEOG 101 - Global Environment: Understanding Physical Geography
3.0
GEOG 212 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
3.0
GEOG 303 - Biogeography
3.0
GEOG 305 - Geography of Landforms
3.0
GEOG 306 - (Not currently offered)
GEOG 307 - Landscape Ecology
3.0
GEOG 310 - Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning
3.0
GEOG 311 - Intermediate Geographic Information Systems
3.0
GEOG 331 - Economic Geography
3.0
GEOG 412 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems
3.0
GEOL 101 - Introduction to Geology
3.0
GEOL 111 - Physical Geology
4.0
GEOL 435 - Introduction to Groundwater
3.0
MATH 112 - Calculus 1
4.0
MATH 119 - Introduction to Calculus
4.0
MATH 302 - Mathematics for Engineering 1
4.0
MATH 303 - Mathematics for Engineering 2
4.0
MMBIO 221 - General Microbiology
3.0
MMBIO 240 - Molecular Biology
3.0
MMBIO 241 - Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory
1.0
PDBIO 360 - Cell Biology
3.0
PHIL 205 - Introduction to Formal Logic
3.0
PHSCS 105 - General Physics 1
3.0
PHSCS 106 - General Physics 2
3.0
PHSCS 107 - General Physics Lab 1
1.0
PHSCS 108 - General Physics Lab 2
1.0
PHSCS 121 - Introduction to Newtonian Mechanics
3.0
PHSCS 123 - Introduction to Waves, Optics, and Thermodynamics
3.0
PWS 100 - Plants in the Environment
3.0
PWS 103 - Residential Landscape Design
3.0
PWS 215 - Principles of Range Management
3.0
PWS 225 - Principles of Wildlife and Fisheries Management
3.0
PWS 288 - (Not currently offered)
PWS 303 - Soils Conservation and Resources
3.0
PWS 306 - Soil and Water Quality Laboratory
1.0
PWS 330 - Rangeland Plant Identification and Ecology
3.0
PWS 331 - Science of Plant Pest Control
3.0
PWS 340 - Genetics
3.0
PWS 355 - Rangeland Vegetation Measurements and Analysis
3.0
PWS 390R - Special Topics in Plant and Wildlife Sciences
3.0v
You may take this course up to 1 time.
PWS 402 - Soils and Water in the Urban Environment
3.0
PWS 405 - (Not currently offered)
PWS 406 - Environmental Chemistry Lab 2
1.0
PWS 411 - Watershed Management
3.0
PWS 416 - (Not currently offered)
PWS 419 - Forest Management and Ecology
3.0
PWS 491R - Undergraduate Seminar
1.0
You may take this course up to 1 time.
PWS 511 - Environmental Biophysics: Soil and Plant Water Relations
4.0
PWS 514 - Soil Microbiology
2.0
STAT 121 - Principles of Statistics
3.0
Program Outcomes
Please contact the individual department for outcome information.
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