For an up-to-date description of the environmental science major requirements, courses and course sequences please refer to the program webpage at http://envsci.rutgers.edu/academics/envsci/graduation_requirements.html.
SEBS UNDERGRADUATE CORE CURRICULUM (39 credits)
Note: The SEBS Core Curriculum requirements differ slightly from SAS Core Curriculum requirements
Contemporary Challenges (6 credits) Two courses, one in each of the Contemporary Challenges areas: Diversities and Social Inequalities [CC-D] and Our Common Future [CC-O]
Experiential Learning (3 credits) Students must participate in a certified experience that meets this goal [EL]
Natural Sciences (6 credits) Two courses, one each in two of the following areas: physical, biological, or environmental sciences [NS]
Historical Analysis (3 credits) One course [HST]
Social Analysis (6 credits) Two courses, one in either social/cultural analysis or economic analysis, and one in governmental and regulatory analysis [SCL]
Arts and Humanities (3 credits) One course [AH]
Writing and Communication (6 credits) 01:355:101 or its equivalent [WC] and one course in communicating effectively in modes appropriate to a discipline or area of inquiry [WCD]
Quantitative and Formal Reasoning (6 credits) Two courses [QQ; QR]
Graduation Requirements for the Major
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 sciences 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 sciences major requirements are as described below.
PROFICIENCY IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (63-82 credits)
1. Biological and Physical Sciences (24-34)
01:119:103 Principles of Biology (3) or 01:119:115-116 General Biology I & II (3,3)1
01:160:161-162 General Chemistry (4,4)1
01:160:171 Introduction to Experimentation (1)
01:160:209 Elementary Organic Chemistry (3) or 01:160:307-308 Organic Chemistry (4,4)
01:750:193-194 Physics for the Sciences (4,4) or 01:750:203-204 General Physics (3,3)1
11:216:351 Principles of Ecology (3)
2. Quantitative Skills (7)
Calculus I (4)2
Choose one of the following:
i. 01:960:211 Statistics I (3)3 or equivalent
ii. 11:375:303 Numerical Methods in Environmental Science (3)
iii. 11:573:232 Fundamentals of Geomatics (3)
3. Environmental Sciences (12)
11:375:201 Biological Principles of Environmental Sciences (3)
11:375:202 Chemical Principles of Environmental Sciences (3)
11:375:203 Physical Principles of Environmental Sciences (3)
11:375:310 Analytical Environmental Chemistry Laboratory (3)4
4. Environmental Science Lab Course, choose one (2-4)
11:375:312 Environmental Microbiology Laboratory (2)
11:375:360 Soils and Water (4)
11:375:424 Air Sampling Techniques (3)
Also choose from one of the following options:
Environmental Science Option (25)
01:640:1 Calculus 2 (4)
11:375:423 Environmental Fate and Transport (3)
Environmental Science Option Courses, choose three (9)
11:375:346 Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (3)
11:375:340 Environmental Applications of Organic Chemistry (3)
11:375:302 Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)
11:375:411 Environmental Microbiology (3)
11:375:444 Water Chemistry (3)
11:375:453 Soil Ecology (3)
Electives, see below (9)
Applied Environmental Option (24)
11:375:302 Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)
11:375:307 Solid Waste Management and Treatment (3)
11:375:430 Hazardous Waste (3)
11:375:407 Environmental Toxicology (3)
Electives, see below (12)
Environmental Health Option (23-25)
11:375:302 Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)
11:375:307 Solid Waste Management and Treatment (3)
11:375:407 Environmental Toxicology (3) or ENOH 0594 Environmental and Occupational Toxicology (3)*
10:832:335 Epidemiology (3) or PHCO 0502 Principles and Methods of Epidemiology (3)*
Microbiology course, choose one (2-4):
11:375:312 Environmental Microbiology Laboratory (2) (if not already used for other major requirement)
11:680:201 Introduction to Microbiology (3)
11:680:390 General Microbiology (4)
Electives, see below (9)
ELECTIVES
Students can choose from any 300- or 400-level 375 course or any of the following list of non-375 courses. Note that to satisfy as an elective course, it must not already be used to satisfy other environmental science major or option requirements.
Possible electives:
11:680:201 Introduction to Microbiology (3)
11:680:390 General Microbiology (4)
11:374:460 Environmental Law and Policy I - Nature, Law, and Society (3)
11:375:302 Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)
11:375:303 Numerical Methods (3)
11:375:307 Solid Waste Management and Treatment (3)
11:375:322 Energy, Technology, and its Environmental Impact (3)
11:375:340 Environmental Applications of Organic Chemistry (3)
11:375:346 Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (3)
11:375:360 Soils and Water (4)
11:375:407 Environmental Toxicology (3)
11:375:411 Environmental Microbiology (3)
11:375:421 Principles of Air Pollution (3)
11:375:423 Environmental Fate and Transport (3)
11:375:424 Air Sampling and Analysis Techniques (3)
11:375:430 Hazardous Wastes (3)
11:375:434 Principles of Industrial Hygiene (3)
11:375:444 Water Chemistry (3)
11:375:450 The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle (3)
11:375:453 Soil Ecology (3)
11:375:474 Coastal Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing World (3)
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1Satisfies SEBS Natural Science [NS] requirement
2Satisfies SEBS Mathematical or Formal Reasoning [QR] requirement
3Satisfies SEBS Quantitative Information [QQ] requirement
4Satisfies SEBS Discipline-Based Writing and Communication [WCd] requirement
