Environmental Science and Studies
Environmental Geology Track
The major in Environmental Science and Studies with an Environmental Geology track requires 74-78 units. Students select this area of specialization if their primary interests are in the substrates, the water, soil and minerals, that control various processes of natural world. Students graduating from this area are prepared for graduate programs, or careers in environmental consulting, hydrological modeling, environmental compliance, watershed protection, and with environmental monitoring and protection agencies and other such fields.
Required Courses
| Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics (47-49 units) |
| BIOL |
202 |
Introduction to Ecology, Evolution & Behavior (4 units) |
CHEM
CHEM |
110
or
131, 131L |
General Chemistry I (4 units)
General Chemistry I (3 units Lec, 1 unit Lab) |
CHEM
CHEM |
111
or
132, 132L |
General Chemistry II (4 units)
General Chemistr II (3 units Lec, 1 unit Lab) |
| CHEM |
210 |
Introduction to Analytical Chemistry (5 units) |
| GEOL |
121 |
Physical Geology (4 units) |
| GEOL |
305 |
Environmental Geology (4 units) |
| GEOL |
331 |
Mineralogy (4 units) |
| GEOL |
415 |
Hydrogeology (4 units) |
| GEOL |
321 |
Structural Geology (4units) |
| or |
| GEOL |
443 |
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (4 units) |
| PHYS |
211 |
Physics I (4 units) |
One of the following: |
| MATH |
119 |
Pre-Calculus (4 units) |
| MATH |
211 |
Calculus for Applications (3 units) |
| One of the following: |
| MATH |
231 |
Basic Statistics (3 units) |
| MATH |
237 |
Elementary Biostatistics (4 units) |
| GEOG |
375 |
Quantitative Methods in Geography (3 units) |
| ECON |
205 |
Statistics for Business and Economics (3 units) |
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| Social Sciences/Humanities (18 units) |
| One of the following Advanced Writing courses: |
| ENVS |
337 |
The Chesapeake Bay and Its Watershed (3 units) |
| ENGL |
318 |
Advanced Informational Writing (3 units) |
| One of the following: |
| PHIL |
255 |
Environmental Ethics (3 units) |
| HLTH |
451 |
Introduction to Environmental Health (3 units) |
Two, two courses sequences: [2, 6 unit sequences--an upper-level and a lower-level course in the same discipline--from two disciplines] |
| ECON |
201 |
Microeconomic Principles (3 units) |
| ECON |
375 |
Environmental Economics (3 units) |
| or |
| ECON |
376 |
Natural Resource Economics (3 units) |
| GEOG |
101 |
Physical Geography (3 units) |
| GEOG |
410 |
Environmental Geography (3 units) |
| POSC |
103 |
American National Government (3 units) |
| or |
| POSC |
207 |
State Government (3 units) |
| POSC |
421 |
Politics and Environmental Policy (3 units) |
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| Applications (3 units) |
| One of the following: |
| ENVS |
482 |
Environmental Research (3 units) |
| ENVS |
485 |
Environmental Internship (3 units) |
| ENVS |
491 |
Senior Seminar (3 units) |
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Elective (6-8 units) |
| One of the following courses and one additional course selected from among any of the Environmental Science and Studies tracks: |
| GEOL |
323 |
Geomorphology (4 units) |
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| GEOG |
315 |
Geomorphology (4 units) |
| GEOL |
333 |
Petrology of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks (4 units) |
| GEOL |
357 |
Physical Oceanography (3 units) |
| GEOL |
451 |
Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks (3 units) |
Environmental Science and Studies Program
Administration Building, Room 213
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: 410-704-4920
Fax: 410-704-3959
E-mail: jwolfson@towson.edu
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