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Nov 04, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Environmental Geoscience Major
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(47 credits)
Degree Map
3 Year Degree Map
Learning Outcomes
The Environmental Geoscience program provides students with scientific and communication skills and knowledge necessary to understand the inter-relationships between people, living organisms, and the surface environment. This comprehensive array of knowledge provides students with a unique set of tools suitable for building analytical skills, problem-solving techniques, and critical thinking skills necessary for professional careers in industry, environmental and engineering consulting firms, governmental regulatory agencies, or graduate school.
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Required Courses - 35 credits
Directed Electives - 12 credits
Select 12 hours from the following list of courses. Students have the option of diversifying their electives to cover a broad spectrum of environmental topics, or they may tailor their electives to focus on such discipline-related topics as environmental geosciences, water resources, geochemistry, geoarchaeology, and physical geology. See advisor for a list of discipline related topics. Other related science courses may be completed in consultation with the major advisor. Degree Map
This major requires an overall 2.0 GPA Spring 4th Year
- Foundational Studies: HIP | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective 3 credits
- Elective 1 credit
3 Year Degree Map
The 3 year degree plan is available for the students meeting the following requirements: - Student is an incoming freshman to the on-campus program
- English placement score into ENG 105/107 or GH 101 & GH 102
- Math placement directly into Quantitative Literacy category
Summer 1st Year
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
9 Credits Summer 2nd Year
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective | 3 Credits
- Elective | 1 Credits
7 Credits |
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