Nov 04, 2025

2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog

HELP

2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived]

Human and Environmental Systems Major

Print Degree Planner (opens a new window) |

(41-50 credits)

Common Core for all Departmental Concentrations (14 credits)

ENVI 110 - Introduction to Environmental Sciences 3 credits
ENVI 110L - Introduction to Environmental Sciences Lab 1 credits
ENVI 130 - World Cultures and Environments 3 credits
ENVI 170 - Earth Science 3 credits
ENVI 170L - Earth Science Laboratory 1 credits
ENVI 460 - Conservation and Sustainability of Natural Resources 3 credits

Required Statistics for all Human and Environmental Systems Majors (3 credits)

Choose one from the following:

ENVI 240 - Introduction to Quantitative Geography 3 credits
AHS 340 - Health Biostatistics 3 credits
MATH 241 - Principles of Statistics 3 credits
SOC 381 - Statistics for Social Research 3 credits
or another statistics course approved by the department.

Electives (6 credits):

Select any ENVI course.

Choose one from the following concentrations:

Anthropology Concentration (27 credits)

ENVI 201 - Prehistory and Climate Change 3 credits
ENVI 205 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology 3 credits
ENVI 308 - Human Evolution 3 credits
ENVI 436 - Environmental Archaeology 3 credits
ENVI 440 - Human Ecology 3 credits
ENVI 449 - Human Discovery 3 credits

Choose three courses from the following:

ENVI 303 - Aspects of Culture 3 credits
ENVI 310 - Indians of North America 3 credits
ENVI 435 - Issues in Biological Anthropology 3 credits
ENVI 442 - Medical Anthropology 3 credits
ENVI 443 - Forensic Anthropology 3 credits
ENVI 445 - Archaeological Methods 3 credits
ENVI 446 - Midwestern Archaeology 3 credits
ENVI 447 - Current Issues in Archaeology 3 credits

Geography Concentration (18 credits)

ENVI 105 - Introduction to Human Geography 3 credits
ENVI 211 - Physical Geography 3 credits
ENVI 212 - Introduction to GIScience 3 credits

Choose one from each of the following areas:

Human Systems

ENVI 313 - Advanced Economic Geography 3 credits
ENVI 417 - Industrial Geography 3 credits
ENVI 418 - Political Geography 3 credits
ENVI 419 - Global Geography 3 credits
ENVI 420 - Urban Geography 3 credits
ENVI 421 - Geographical Analysis of Urban Systems 3 credits
ENVI 422 - Interpreting American Cityscapes 3 credits
ENVI 423 - Geography of the Middle East 3 credits
ENVI 425 - Geography of Anglo America 3 credits

Physical Systems

ENVI 351 - Regional Geomorphology 3 credits
ENVI 353 - Weather and Climate 3 credits
ENVI 452 - Quaternary Environments 3 credits
ENVI 453 - Climatology 3 credits
ENVI 454 - Introduction to Hydrology 3 credits
ENVI 463 - Soil Genesis and Classification 3 credits

Geo-Techniques

ENVI 401 - Geographic Information Systems: Applications 3 credits
ENVI 402 - Geoprocessing 3 credits
ENVI 404 - Automated Cartography 3 credits
ENVI 405 - Fundamentals of Remote Sensing 3 credits
ENVI 412 - Advanced Cartography 3 credits
ENVI 415 - Advanced Quantitative Geography 3 credits
ENVI 450 - Environmental Modeling and Mapping 3 credits

GIScience Concentration (18 credits)

ENVI 212 - Introduction to GIScience 3 credits
ENVI 342 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 3 credits
ENVI 401 - Geographic Information Systems: Applications 3 credits
ENVI 405 - Fundamentals of Remote Sensing 3 credits
ENVI 407 - Remote Sensing: Digital Analysis of Spectral Data 3 credits

Electives (3 credits)

Select any ENVI course.

Back to Top | Print Degree Planner (opens a new window) |