Students
matriculating prior to the fall semester 2015 in the School of
Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) must complete the SEBS general education requirements. In addition, students majoring in environmental policy, institutions, and behaviors must complete the major requirements described below.
Students
matriculating fall 2015 or after and transfer students matriculating in
2016 and after must complete a goal-based Core Curriculum in place of
general education requirements. The goal-based core is described here: http://sebs.rutgers.edu/core. Courses are certified for the Core Curriculum by a faculty committee. A current list of certified courses can be found here: http://sebs.rutgers.edu/core. Environmental policy, institutions, and behavior major requirements are as described below.
For an up-to-date description of environmental policy, institutions, and behavior major requirements, courses, and course sequences please refer to the program webpage at http://humeco.rutgers.edu/undergrad.asp.
Major Requirements for All Students Regardless of Matriculation Date
Requirement
V8: Foundation courses (15 credits)
11:374:101 Introduction to Human Ecology
11:374:269 Population, Resources, and Environment
11:374:279 Politics of Environmental Issues
11:374:312 Environmental History
11:374:460 Environmental Law and Policy
Requirement V9: Methods (9 credits)
Statistics (choose one):
01:960:211 Statistics I
01:960:401 Basic Statistics for Research
10:762:205 Basic Statistical Methods for Policy, Planning, and Health
Required:
11:374:110 Theories and Reasoning in Human Ecology
11:374:201 Research Methods
Requirement V10: Math Proficiency
Notes: All students must place in Precalculus or higher or complete
Intermediate Algebra (01:640:026)
Requirement V11: Skills (9 credits)
Required:
11:374:220 Environmental Solutions
11:374:280 Careers in EPIB
Communication, choose one:
11:374:225 Environment and Health in Society
11:374:325 Environmental Communication
11:374:435 Communicating Life Sciences
Requirement V12: Experience-Based Education Requirement (3 credits)
Choose one:
11:374:481 Raritan Scholars
11:374:490 Readings and Practicum in Human Ecology
11:374:491 Readings and Practicum in Human Ecology
11:374:492 Environmental Studies Internship
11:374:493 Environmental Communication Clinic
Requirement V13: Policy, Governance, and Management Cluster (3 credits):
Choose
one:
11:374:175 Energy and Society
11:374:115 Water and Society
11:374:313 U.S. Environmental Policy
11:374:314 Natural Resource Policy
11:374:428 Marine Fisheries Policy
11:374:462 International Environmental Law and Policy
Requirement V14: Food, Health, and Disease Cluster (3
credits):
Choose one:
11:374:141 Health and Society
11:374:430 Risk, Health, and Safety
11:374:431 New and Reemerging Diseases
11:374:436 Segregation and Health
11:374:437 Culture and Health
11:374:438 Health in the Latino Community
Requirement V15: Globalization, Development, and Sustainability
Cluster (3 credits):
Choose one:
11:374:305 Globalization, Development, and the Environment
11:374:426 Climate Change Policy
11:374:429 Agrarian Landscapes
Requirement V16: People, Communities, and the Environment Cluster (3 credits):
Choose one:
11:374:322 Behavior and the Environment
11:374:335 Communities and Environmental Change
11:374:440 Race and the Environment
11:374:416 Environmental Education
Requirement V17: Upper Level Classes (6 credits)
Choose two additional 374 courses at the 300-400 level that are not being
counted to fulfill other requirements. Please note: 11:374:490,
11:374:491, and 11:374:492 cannot count toward this requirement.
Requirement V18: Capstone (3 credits)
Choose one:
11:374:499 Capstone in Human Ecology
11:015:497 George H. Cook Honors
11:015:498 George H. Cook Honors
Unspecified Electives
In
addition to courses meeting the above requirements, students can take
any other courses offered by the university, for which they meet the
course eligibility requirements, to bring their total number of credits
to the minimum of 128 required for graduation.
