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 Arts in Environmental Studies (124 credit hours)*

Required Program:
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
CHEM 101 (3) Chemistry and Society                                                                                                   CSCI 101 (3) Introduction to Computers and Information Processing and Labs
ECON 103 or 215 (3) Introduction to the Political Economy or Microeconomics
GEOG 101 (3) Human Geography or GEOG 201 (3) World Regions
MATH 141 (3) Finite Probability and Statistics

Social Sciences/Humanities Electives, select five courses:

ANTH 540 (3) Environmental Anthropology                                                                                       ECON 343 (3) Environmental Economics
ENVS 510 (3) Special Topics in the Environment                                                                               GEOG 305 (3) Geographic Information Systems                                                                                    HIST 530 (3) World Environmental History
PHIL 340 (3) Environmental Ethics
PLSC 325 (3) Environmental Politics
PLSC 202 (3) State and Local Government
PLSC 220 (3) Introduction to Public Administration                                                                              PSYC 311 (3) Ecological Psychology
SOCL 310 (3) Sociology of the Environment

Science Electives, select one:

BIOL 205 (4) Botany
BIOL 206 (4) General Zoology
BIOL 303 (4) Field Botany                                                                                                                    BIOL 304 (4) Insect Field Studies                                                                                                       BIOL 323 (4) Tropical Watersheds
CHEM 105/107 (4) General Chemistry I and Laboratory                                                                      GEOG 500 (3) Global Environment and Sustainable Environment
GEOL 110/113 (4) Physical Geology and Laboratory                                                                                  GEOL 201 (3) Natural Disasters                                                                                                        GEOL 220 (3) Oceanography                                                                                                                   PHYS 105 (3) Energy and the Environment
PHYS 201 (4) Physics I

General Education Distribution Requirements not met by Required Program:
ACAD 101 (0-1) Principles of the Learning Academy

Critical Skills

WRIT 101(3) and CRTW 201 (3)
CTQR 150 or MATH 105 or MATH 201 or MATH course requiring MATH 201 as a prerequisite (3)
Foreign Language (102-level proficiency required (3-4))

Oral Communication (see approved list) (0-3)

Skills for Common Experience and Thinking Across Disciplines

            GNED 102 (3)       

  Historical Perspectives (3) (see approved list*)

Developing Critical Skills and Applying them to Disciplines

            Humanities and Arts (3-9) (see approved list*)

            Intensive Writing  (0)  (met in major)

            Constitution Requirement (0-3) (see approved list*)

Minor Requirements (15-24)

General Electives (11-47)

*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 2008-2009 catalog)