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:
- CHEM 103 - Gerneral Chemistry I and CHEM 104 - General Chemistry II
- CHEM 201 - Analytical Chemistry
- One of the following two courses:
- CHEM 271 - Environmental Chemistry
- CHEM 281 - Laboratory in Environmental Chemistry
- One of the following three courses:
- BIOL 123 - The Living World
- BIOL 224 - Cellular and Genetic Systems
- BIOL 345 - Ecosystem Ecology and Management
- GEOL 151 - Introduction to Geology
- GEOL 311 - Geomorphology
- GEOL 312 - Environmental Geology
- One of the following courses:
Cognates
- One of the following course sequences
- Environmental Studies 210
- Environmental Studies 302
- Environmental Studies 395
