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Academic Calendar
Board of Regents and System Administrative Officers
TAMU Administrative Officers
General Information
International Programs for Students
University Honors Program
Environmental Program
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
College of Architecture
Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business
College of Education
Dwight Look College of Engineering
College of Geosciences
College of Liberal Arts
College of Science
College of Veterinary Medicine
General Academic Programs
School of Military Sciences
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Graduate Studies
Graduate Studies
Course Descriptions
Faculty
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Curriculum in
Environmental Studies

The B.S. degree in Environmental Studies in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (COALS) provides students with the opportunity to learn about the major societal forces that influence environmental issues. These include political agreement supporting legal and regulatory requirements, economics and the marketplace, environmental values, and technology. Students gain technical background blended with a solid foundation in economics, political issues, environmental law, ethics, and communications. Technology and the environment are well supported in existing curricula in COALS and contribute to the multidisciplinary nature of the Environmental Studies degree. Technical courses focus on biological sciences, natural resources, and assessment of the environment and come from the Departments of Agricultural Economics, Entomology, Forest Science, Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Rangeland Ecology and Management, Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, Soil and Crop Sciences, and Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. It is the fusion of these courses with those from the Liberal Arts that make this a truly unique curriculum.

 
FRESHMAN YEAR
First Semester
(Th-Pr)
Cr
  
Second Semester
(Th-Pr)
Cr
BESC 201 Intro. to Bioenviron. Sciences
(3-0)
3
   CHEM 101 Fundamentals of Chemistry
(3-3)
4
BIOL 113 Introductory Biology
(3-0)
3
   ENGL 104 Composition and Rhetoric
(3-0)
3
and
  GEOG 201 Intro. to Human Geography
(3-0)
3
BIOL 123 Introductory Biology Laboratory
(0-3)
1
   KINE 199 Required Physical Activity
(0-2)
1
or
  RENR 205 Fundamentals of Ecology
(3-0)
3
BOTN 101 Botany
(3-3)
4
    
15
KINE 198 Health and Fitness Activity
(0-2)
1
    
MATH 141 Business Math I
(3-0)
3
    
POLS 206 American Natl. Govt.
(3-0)
3
    
 
14
    


SOPHOMORE YEAR
FRSC 304 Forest Ecology
(3-0)
3
  
AGEC 105 Introduction to Agricultural EconomicS
(3-0)
 3
GEOG 204 Economic Geography
(3-0)
3
   GEOG 203 Planet Earth: Systems Science
(3-3)
 4
MATH 142 Business Math II
(3-0)
3
   POLS 207 State and Local Govt.
(3-0)
 3
Free elective
4
   Communication elective 2
3
Visual and performing arts elective 1
3
   Free elective
3
 
16
    
16

JUNIOR YEAR
RENR 375 Conservation of Natural Resources
(3-0)
3
  
AGRO 301 Soil Science
(3-2)
4
RPTS 420 Natural Resource Law
(3-0)
3
   PHIL 205 Tech. and Human Value or PHIL 314 Environmental Ethics
(3-0)
3
STAT 303 Statistical Methods
(3-0)
3
   Environmental policy elective 3
3
Environmental policy electives 3
6
   History elective 4
3
History elective 4
3
   Natural resources elective 5
3
 
18
    
16

SENIOR YEAR
WFSC 301 Wildlife and the Changing Environment
(3-0)
3
  
RENR 470 Environmental Impact Assess.
(2-2)
Environmental policy electives 3
6
   or
Natural resources electives 5
6
  
FRSC 461 GIS for Resources Mgmt.
(3-0)
Professional experience elective 6
3
   or
 
18
   RENR 405 GIS for Envrn. Problem Solv.
(2-2)
3
 
  Environmental policy electives 3
6
 
  Free electives
7
 
   
16

NOTES: 1. Visual and performing arts elective to be selected from the University Core Curriculum. The University Core Curriculum also requires 6 hours of international and cultural diversity courses. This requirement may be met by courses satisfying another requirement in the curriculum if they also are on the approved list on international and cultural diversity courses (see the International and Cultural Diversity table.)

2. Communication electives to be selected from the University Core Curriculum.

3. To be selected in consultation with faculty academic advisor from AGEC 344, 350, 429; ECON 202, 203, 323, 412,435; FRSC 406; GEOG 401, 406; PHIL 314, 483; PLAN 365, 414; POLS 306, 329, 331, 340, 342, 347, 440, 461; SOCI 312, 328; WFSC 303.

4. Select from HIST 359, 360, 363, 364.

5. Select Life Sciences electives from AGRO, AGSM, BESC, ENTO, POSC, RENR, RLEM, RPTS, or WFSC in consultation with an advisor.

6. To be selected in consultation with an academic advisor.