The major in Environmental Science and Studies with an Informal Environmental Education track requires 77-81 units. Students select this track if their interest is educating the public, especially children, about the environment. This major prepares graduates to help the public appreciate the importance of our natural systems and understand the threats these systems face. Students completing this track are prepared for positions as park naturalist/educators working in federal, state and local parks as well as careers educating the public in the private sector.
Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics (46-48 units) |
| BIOL |
201 |
Cellular Biology and Genetics (4 units) |
| BIOL |
202 |
Introduction to Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (4 units) |
| BIOL |
205 |
Botany (4 units) |
| BIOL |
207 |
Zoology (4 units) |
| BIOL |
301 |
Field and Natural Science (3 units) |
| BIOL |
304 |
Natural History Interpretation and Public (3 units) |
| CHEM |
104 |
Introduction to Environmental Chemistry (4 units) |
| ENVS |
485 |
Environmental Internship (3 units) |
| GEOL |
121 |
Physical Geology (4 units) |
| SCIE |
380 |
Methods of Teaching Science (3 units) |
| One of the following: |
| BIOL |
402 |
Ecology (4 units) |
| BIOL |
435 |
Plant Ecology (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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| Advanced Writing (3 units) |
| One of the following: |
| ENGL |
318 |
Advanced Informational Writing (3 units) |
| ENVS |
377 |
The Chesapeake Bay and Its Watershed (3 units) |
| GEOG |
383 |
Natural Resources and Society (3 units) |
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| Environmental Geography, Ethics and Health (12 units) |
| GEOG |
101 |
Physical Geography (3 units) |
| GEOG |
410 |
Environmental Geography (3 units) |
| HLTH |
451 |
Introduction to Environmental Health (3 units) |
| PHIL |
255 |
Environmental Ethics (3 units) |
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| Economics and Political Science (6units) |
| One two-course sequence in one discipline consisting of one lower-level and one upper-level course: |
| ECON |
201 |
Microeconomic Principles (3 units) |
| ECON |
375 |
Environmental Economics (3 units) |
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| ECON |
376 |
Natural Resource Economics (3 units) |
| POSC |
103 |
American National Government (3 units) |
| or |
| POSC |
207 |
State Government |
| POSC |
421 |
Politics and Environmental Policy (3 units) |
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| Electives (10-12 units) |
| Select three of the following: |
| BIOL |
306 |
Human Ecology and Sustainability (3 units) |
| BIOL |
353 |
Invertebrate Zoology (4 units) |
| BIOL |
432 |
Vascular Plant Taxonomy (4 units) |
| BIOL |
455 |
Fish Biology (4 units) |
| BIOL |
456 |
Ornithology (4 units) |
| BIOL |
458 |
Mammology (4 units) |
| BIOL |
461 |
Entomology (4 units) |
| BIOL |
467 |
Herpetology (4 units) |
| ENVS |
382 |
Environmental Education and Service Learning in the Tropics (3) |
| GEOL |
305 |
Environmental Geology (4 units) |
| GEOG |
319 |
Soils and Vegetation (4 units) |
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