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Program Sample Plan

Program name: Environmental Geosciences B S E G
Sample Plan: Env Geosci B.S. Env Geosci Sample Plan
Total Credits: 121.0
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Year 1 - Fall Semester: 13.0 cr
MATH 1371 - CSE Calculus I : 4.0 cr : MATH : Preferred Course
CHEM 1061 - Chemical Principles I : 3.0 cr : PHYS : Preferred Course
CHEM 1065 - Chemical Principles I Laboratory : 1.0 cr : PHYS : Preferred Course
PHYS 1301W - Introductory Physics for Science and Engineering I : 4.0 cr : PHYS, WI : Preferred Course
CSE 1001 1.0 cr
Year 1 - Spring Semester: 12.0 cr
STAT 3011 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis : 4.0 cr : MATH
Freshman Composition :4.0 cr
MATH 1372 - CSE Calculus II : 4.0 cr
Year 2 - Fall Semester: 10.0 cr
HSCI 3401 - Ethics in Science and Technology : 3.0 cr : HIS, CIV
ESCI 2301 - Mineralogy : 3.0 cr
ESCI 3303W - Geochemical Principles : 4.0 cr : WI
Year 2 - Spring Semester: 16.0 cr
ESCI 2201 - Solid Earth Dynamics : 4.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
ESCI 3891 - Field Methods : 2.0 cr
ESCI 4602 - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy : 3.0 cr
SOIL 2125 - Basic Soil Science : 4.0 cr : PHYS, ENV
Year 2 - Summer Semester: 4.0 cr
ESPM 3261 - Economics and Natural Resources Management : 4.0 cr : SOCS, ENV
Year 3 - Fall Semester: 17.0 cr
WRIT 3315 - Writing on Issues of Land and the Environment : 3.0 cr : AH, DSJ
ESCI 3911 - Introductory Field Geology : 4.0 cr
ESCI 4701 - Geomorphology : 4.0 cr
LE (Writing Intensive - Lower Division) :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Year 3 - Spring Semester: 17.0 cr
ESCI 4501 - Structural Geology : 3.0 cr
GEOG 3561 - Principles of Geographic Information Science : 4.0 cr
ESCI 4702 - General Hydrogeology : 4.0 cr
LE (Global Perspectives) :3.0 cr
ESCI 4401 - Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry : 3.0 cr
Year 3 - Summer Semester: 1.0 cr
ESCI 3890 - Field Workshop : 1.0 cr
Year 4 - Fall Semester: 13.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
ESCI 4911 - Advanced Field Geology : 4.0 cr
ESCI 4203 - Environmental Geophysics : 3.0 cr
LE (Literature) :3.0 cr
Year 4 - Spring Semester: 18.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
ESPM 3011W - Ethics in Natural Resources : 3.0 cr : CIV, WI
LE (Biological Sciences) :4.0 cr
ESCI 5805 - Standards and Practices for Professional Geoscienists : 3.0 cr
ESCI 4801 - Geomicrobiology : 3.0 cr
Elective :2.0 cr