Aug 17, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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. 

 

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

Fall 1st Year


Spring 1st Year


Fall 2nd Year


Spring 2nd Year


Fall 3rd Year


Spring 3rd Year


Fall 4th Year


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

Fall 1st Year


Spring 1st Year


Summer 1st Year


  • Elective | 3 Credits
  • Elective | 3 Credits
  • Elective | 3 Credits

9 Credits

Fall 2nd Year


Spring 2nd Year


Summer 2nd Year


  • Elective | 3 Credits
  • Elective | 3 Credits
  • Elective | 1 Credits

7 Credits

Fall 3rd Year


Spring 3rd Year


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