Environmental Science and Sustainability, BS

Required Courses

Students must take all courses listed below

• BIOL 1410 - Environmental Science and Sustainability 4 hour(s)
• BIOL 1402 - General Biology II 4 hour(s)
• BIOL 1401 - General Biology I 4 hour(s)
• CHEM 1401 - General Chemistry I 4 hour(s)
• CHEM 1402 - General Chemistry II 4 hour(s)
• BIOL 2455 - General Ecology 4 hour(s)
• BIOL 3100 - Seminar in Environmental Science and Sustainability Careers 1 hour(s)
• BIOL 4490 - Environmental Science Internship 4 hour(s)

Additional Courses

Choose seven (7) of the courses below:

• ANTH 2351 - Cultural Anthropology 3 hour(s)
• BIOL 3450 - Environmental Toxicology 4 hour(s)
• BIOL 4481 - Research and Writing 4 hour(s)
• CMAS 4320 - Women, Gender and Migration 3 hour(s)
• ECON 2302 - Principles of Economics II 3 hour(s)
• HIST 5370 - Special Issues: World History 3 hour(s)
• MGMT 4308 - Sustainability in Business 3 hour(s)
• PHIL 4352 - Global Justice 3 hour(s)
• POLS 4351 - Environmental Policy and Law 3 hour(s)
• SOCI 3319 - Mapping the Social World 3 hour(s)
• SOCI 4327 - Environmental Sociology 3 hour(s)
• BIOL 3413 - Vascular Plants 4 hour(s)
• BIOL 3442 - Marine Biology 4 hour(s)
• BIOL 3465 - Evolution 4 hour(s)
• BIOL 3481 - General Microbiology 4 hour(s)
• COMM 4360 - Communication Theory and Research 3 hour(s)
• ENGL 3314 - Fundamentals of Professional and Technical Writing 3 hour(s)
• ENGL 3333 - Grant Writing 3 hour(s)
• ENGL 3345 - Technical Editing and Writing 3 hour(s)
• MKTG 3331 - Principles of Marketing 3 hour(s)
• SOCI 1319 - Introduction to Public Health 3 hour(s)

Required General Education Courses

• BIOL 1402 - General Biology II 4 hour(s)

• and

• CSCD 2341 - American Sign Language I 3 hour(s)

• and

• CSCD 2342 - American Sign Language II 3 hour(s)

• or

• SPAN 1411 - Elementary Spanish I 4 hour(s)

• and

• SPAN 1412 - Elementary Spanish II 4 hour(s)

• or two semesters of the same foreign language.

• and

• MATH 1304 - College Algebra 3 hour(s)

• or

• MATH 1404 - College Algebra with Lab 4 hour(s)

Collateral Courses

Some courses in the list of electives require prerequisite courses not already included in the degree plan. These courses are listed below. The student may have to take all or some of these courses depending on choices of electives. Some may be built into GE credit. For example, ECON 2301  or POLS 1301  can be taken towards the SOCIAL SCIENCE GE requirement, and then ECON 2302  or POLS 4351  may be chosen from the elective list, respectively. Also note: BIOL 4481  requires an additional 7 credit hours in biology as a prerequisite. 

• ECON 2301 - Principles of Economics I 3 hour(s)
• MKTG 3331 - Principles of Marketing 3 hour(s)
• POLS 1301 - American Government 3 hour(s)
• PHIL 2321 - Introduction to Philosophy 3 hour(s)

Suggested Sequencing of Major Courses:

Required for Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Sustainability

Note(s):

The following components are required in all degrees:
General education, major, and validation of completion of:

• overall semester hours - 120
• institutional semester hours - 45
• overall advanced hours - 36
• institutional advanced hours - 24

Required General Education courses:
BIOL 1402, MATH 1304 or MATH 1404   

SPAN 1411, SPAN 1412, CSCD 2341 , CSCD 2342 , or any two semesters of the same foreign language