Earn an environmental science major with a chemistry emphasis
If you want to pursue a career requiring scientific training in environmental problems and their solutions, an environmental studies major will prepare you for jobs in a variety of fields. You can also continue your education through graduate programs such as ecology, environmental science, natural resource management or environmental biology.
Admission to the program
The prerequisite to enter the environmental science program is a minimum average of "C" (2.0) in three college-level science courses and approval by the committee which oversees the environmental science program.
Graduation requirements
To graduate with an environmental science major, you must complete the following courses:
- Chemistry 103 and 104 - General Chemistry I, II
- Chemistry 201 - Analytical Chemistry
- One of the following two courses:
- Chemistry 271 - Environmental Chemistry
- Chemistry 281 - Laboratory in Environmental Chemistry
- One of the following three courses:
- Biology 123 - The Living World
- Biology 224 - Cellular and Genetic Systems
- Biology 345 - Ecosystem Ecology and Management
- Geology 151 - Introduction to Geology
- Geology 311 - Geomorphology
- Geology 312 - Environmental Geology
- One of the following courses:
Cognates
- One of the following course sequences
- Mathematics 132 (or 171) and 143
- Mathematics 171, 172 and 243
- Environmental Studies 210
- Environmental Studies 302
- Environmental Studies 395
