Environmental Studies with a Concentration in Chemistry

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Committee Page: Environmental Studies

Program Learning Outcomes: Environmental Studies

This major may be paired with any minor.

Students must complete all of the following requirements to graduate with a bachelor of arts in this program. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.

College Requirements:

Degree Requirements (2025-26)

Students are required to complete all standard college requirements.

Major Requirements:

Total major units: 19.5-21, depending on mathematics proficiency

Eight and One-half to Nine Units in Environmental Studies Requirements

ES 200 - Introduction to Environmental Studies Research Methods

Two Units from One of the Following Subjects:

Anthropology:

One unit from:

ANTH 201 - Topics in Contemporary Anthropology -only when offered as “Global Political Ecology,”
ANTH 376 - Situating Climate Change
ANTH 378 - Nature, Culture, and Environmentalism
ANTH 379 - Power, Resources, Extractivism
ANTH 415 - Risk and Uncertainty

Economics:

ECON 201 - Introduction to Economic Analysis

One unit from:

History:

A Minimum of One Unit From:

Political Science:

One unit from:

One additional unit in a different subject than used above

Four and One-half to Five Units of the Following:

One Course from the Following:

BIOL 273 - Evolution
BIOL 301 - Ecology
BIOL 303 - Leaves to Landscapes
BIOL 313 - Forest Canopy Ecophysiology
BIOL 332 - Vascular Plant Diversity
BIOL 342 - Animal Behavior
BIOL 431 - Seminar in Biology: Contemporary Topics -only when offered as “Forest Canopy Research,” or “Global Change Ecology”
CHEM 201 - Organic Chemistry I
CHEM 202 - Organic Chemistry II
CHEM 212 - Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM 230 - Environmental Chemistry
CHEM 311 - Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation

Six Units of Chemistry:

Two Units from the Following:

Mathematics Proficiency, Demonstrated by One of the Following:

MATH 111 - Calculus
OR

• Departmental waiver of one unit in cases where the student has demonstrated proficiency

Two Units of Physics and Mathematics or Computer Science

PHYS 101 - General Physics I

One Unit from the Following:

One Unit of Junior Year Requirements:

ES 300 - Junior Seminar
Junior qualifying examination in environmental studies
Junior qualifying examination in chemistry

Two units of Thesis

ES 470 - Thesis