Environmental Program Faculty

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Students can find details for curricula in previous academic years in Undergraduate Catalogs from Records and Registration.   

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences (124 credit hours)*

Required Program (45 hours):
ENVS 101 (3) Introduction to Environmental Issues
ENVS 520 (3) Senior Seminar in the Environment
BIOL 203/204 (4) Principles of Biology and Principles Laboratory
BIOL 205 or 206 (4) Botany or Zoology                                                                                              BIOL 300 (4) Scientific Processes in Biology
BIOL  403(4) Ecology or BIOL 515 (4)  Environmental Biology
CHEM 105/107, CHEM 106/108 (8) General Chemistry and Laboratories
CHEM 301/303 (4) Organic Chem. I and Lab or CHEM 310/311 (4) Essentials of Organic Chem. and Lab
GEOL 110/113 (4) Physical Geology and Laboratory
GEOL 340 (3) Hydrogeology
MATH 141 (3) Finite Probability and Statistics
MATH 105 or 201 (3) Calculus
PHYS 201 or PHYS 211 (4) Physics I

Science and Math Electives (9-13 hours):                                                                                         ANTH 540 (3) Ecological Anthropology                                                                                               BIOL 205 or 206 (4) Botany or Zoology                                                                                               BIOL 310 (4) Microbiology                                                                                                                   BIOL 323 (4) Tropical Watersheds                                                                                                       CHEM 302/304 (4) Organic Chem. II and Lab 
CHEM 312/313/314 (5) Quantitative Analysis and Laboratory
CHEM 315 (4) Environmental Chemistry
ENVS 495 (3) Independent Research in the Environment I
ENVS 510 (3) Special Topics in the Environment                                                                                   GEOG 500 (3) Global Environmental and Sustainable Development                                                         GEOL 201 (3) Natural Disasters                                                                                                         GEOL 220 (3) Oceanography                                                                                                            GEOL 335 (3) Fundamentals of Geochemistry                                                                                    MATH 202 (3) Calculus II
MATH 300 (3) Linear Algebra
MATH 305 (3) Differential Equations
MATH 546 (3) Applied Statistics
PHYS 202 or 212 (4) Physics II

Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences (12 hours, at least 3 designators):
GEOG 101 (3) Human Geography or GEOG 201 (3) World Geography                                                          and GEOG 305 (3) Geographic Information Systems
ECON 103 (3) or 215 (3), and ECON 343 (6) Environmental Economics
PLSC 325 (3) Environmental Politics
SOCL 101 (3) or  201 (3), and SOCL 310 (3) Sociology of the Environment                                           HIST 530 (3) World Environmental History
PHIL 340 (3) Environmental Ethics                                                                                                    PSYC 311 (3) Ecological Psychology

General Education Distribution Requirements not met by Required Program:

ACAD 101 (0-1)
Critical Skills:

WRIT 101 (3) and CRTW 201 (3)

Oral Communication (0-3)  see approved list*
Foreign Language Requirement (102 level proficiency required) (3-4)

Technology(3) (see approved list* – CSCI 101 or 110 recommended)
 
Skills for Common Experience and Thinking Across Disciplines:

GNED 102 (3)

Global Perspectives (0-3) see approved list*

Historical Perspectives (0-3) see approved list*

Developing  Critical Skills and Applying them to Disciplines:

Humanities and Art (3) see approved list*

Intensive Writing (0) met in major

Constitution Requirement (0-3) see approved list*

General Electives (12-36)

*Consult Winthrop University Undergraduate Catalog for addition details and course descriptions.  Approved lists can be found under Degree Requirements (starting on page 37 of the 2007-2008 catalog)