Environmental Geosciences

The following courses outside the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (35 to 38 credits):
All of the following courses (8 credits):
Chemistry Laboratory I
One of the following groups of courses (7 credits):
General and Inorganic Chemistry
General and Descriptive Chemistry
Principles of Chemistry
One of the following courses (3 or 4 credits):
Multivariable Calculus
Statistics for Scientists
One of the following groups of courses (8 credits):
Introductory Physics I
Introductory Physics II
Introductory Physics Laboratory I
Introductory Physics Laboratory II
Physics for Scientists and Engineers I
Physics for Scientists and Engineers II
One of the following courses (3 or 4 credits):
Introduction to Meteorology
One of the following courses (3 or 4 credits):
Remote Sensing of the Environment
Geographic Information Systems
Statistics for Biologists
One of the following courses (3 credits):
Geography of Health and Disease
The following courses in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (31 credits):
Physical and Biological History of the Earth
Mineralogy and Geochemistry
Global Tectonics and Earth Structure (W)
Glacial Geology and the Record of Climate Change
Environmental Geochemistry
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (W)
The completion of GLG 401 satisfies the department’s capstone course requirement.
One course from each of the following areas (9 or 10 credits):
Hydrogeology Component
Engineering Hydrology
Environmental Hydrology for Watershed Management
Environmental Geomorphology
Reservoirs and Aquifers
Geochemical Component
Introductory Physical Chemistry I
Pollutants in the Soil Environment
Environmental Chemistry - Equalibrium Concepts
Igneous and Metamorphic Geochemistry and Petrology
Geobiological Component
Microbiology for Environmental Science and Engineering
Vertebrate Paleontology
Evolutionary Paleontology
Students may not use IBIO 355 to count towards this requirement if used to fulfill requirement 3. a. (7).
Additional credits in Geological Science courses at the 300-400 level to total 40 credits. The credits that are used to satisfy this requirement may be used to satisfy either the requirements for the geological sciences major or the requirements for the environmental geosciences major, but not both of these requirements.
Plant Biology 335 and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics 426 may be used to satisfy either the requirements for the major or the requirements referenced under the heading Graduation Requirements in the College statement, but not both of those requirements.
Principles of Modern Geophysics
Multivariable Calculus
Differential Equations
Physics for Scientists and Engineers I
Physics for Scientists and Engineers II