Environmental Science - Requirements for the Major
Environmental Science Program | Environmental Science Minor Requirements | Course Descriptions
Supporting Courses, 33 credits
- BIOLOGY 202 Principles of Biology: Cellular and Molecular Processes, 4 credits
- BIOLOGY 203 Principles of Biology: Organisms, Ecology and Evolution, 4 credits
- CHEM 211 Principles of Chemistry I, 5 credits
- CHEM 212 Principles of Chemistry II, 5 credits
- EARTH SC 202 Physical Geology, 4 credits
- MATH 104 Elementary Functions: Algebra and Trigonometry, 4 credits
- MATH 260 Introductory Statistics, 4 credits
One of these:
- POL SCI 101 American Government and Politics, 3 credits
- POL SCI 202 Introduction to Public Policy, 3 credits
Upper-Level Courses, 34-35 credits
Required core courses, 19 credits:
- ENV SCI 302 Principles of Ecology, 4 credits
- ENV SCI 303 Conservation of Natural Resources, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 305 Environmental Systems, 4 credits
- ENV SCI 407 Modeling of Environmental Systems, 4 credits
- ENV SCI 454 Remote Sensing and GIS, 4 credits
One of these:
- ENV SCI 467 Ecological and Environmental Methods and Analysis, 4 credits
- ENV SCI 491 Senior Thesis/Research in Environmental Science, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 492 Practicum in Environmental Science, 1-4 credits
One of these:
- ENV SCI 460 Resource Management Strategy, 3 credits
- PU EN AF 301 Environmental Politics and Policy, 3 credits
- PU EN AF 378 Environmental Law, 3 credits
Elective courses, 9 credits:
- ENV SCI 318 Pollution Control, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 320 The Soil Environment, 4 credits
- ENV SCI 323 Pollution Prevention, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 325 Regional Climatology, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 330 Hydrology, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 335 Water and Waste Water Treatment, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 342 Environmental Geology, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 363 Plants and Forest Pathology, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 405 Aquatic Ecology, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 415 Solar and Alternate Energy Systems, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 421 Soils and Geology of Wisconsin Field Trip, 1-3 credits
- ENV SCI 425 Global Climate Change, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 432 Hydrogeology, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 434 Environmental Chemistry, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 435 Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, 1 credit
- ENV SCI 460 Resource Management Strategy, 3 credits
- ENV SCI 469 Conservation Biology, 4 credits
Students intending to pursue graduate study should include additional course work of at least one year of calculus, at least one year of physics, and upper-level courses in organic chemistry.