Overview

All ENVS students must complete the Common Curriculum and choose a track and specialization. Many ENVS students obtain a minor with other departments (or a double major) because there is substantial overlap of required curriculum. There is no minor in ENVS. Students in the College of Arts and Sciences may not use the pass/fail option for courses taken to fulfill the core requirements, foreign language requirement, MAPS requirement, the minor requirements or courses used to complete requirements for the major.

Major Requirements (PDF)
Major Tracking Sheet (pdf)
ENVS/Core Courses

Track Options:

• Track A-Society and Policy, focuses on the social sciences.
• Track B-Environmental Science, focuses on the physical sciences.

Course Hours

• 41-56 hours of common curriculum
• 9-11 hours of required courses (exact amount depends on Track)
• 12-15 hours of courses from one of three specializations (exact amount depends on Track)

Common Curriculum

Requirements for the Common Curriculum:

1. Intro to Environmental Studies (ENVS 1000)
2. Lower-division sequence in Biology
3. Lower-division sequence in Chemistry
4. A lower-division sequence in either Geography, Geology or Atmospheric Sciences
5. A lower-division course in Economics
6. An upper-division course in Economics
7. Environmental ethics
8. Environmental policy
9. A math course (statistics or calculus; depends on track)
10. At least 3 labs

Course Options for Common Curriculum:

1) Introduction*

ENVS 1000, Intro to Environmental Studies

2) Biology Sequence* (choose one)

EBIO 1030/1040, Human Approach I & II
EBIO 1210/1220, General Biology I & II (for science majors)

3) Chemistry Sequence* (choose one)

CHEM 1011/1031, Environmental Chem I & II
CHEM 1111/1131, General Chemistry I & II (for science majors)
CHEM 1021, Intro to Chemistry, & CHEM 1111, General Chemistry I

4) Geography, Geology or Atmospheric Science Sequence* (choose one)

GEOG 1001/1011, Environmental Systems I & II or

GEOL 1010 Intro to Geology I (Physical Geology) &
*GEOL 1060 Global Change - Earth Science or
*GEOL 1020 Intro to Geology II (History of the Earth) or
*GEOL 1040 Geology of Colorado or

ATOC 1050 Weather and the Atmosphere & ATOC 1060 Our changing Environment

5) Labs

Track A: total of three labs from any of the following: EBIO 1050 or EBIO 1230 or EBIO 1240 or GEOL 1030 or ATOC 1070 or w/GEOG 1001 or w/GEOG 1011 or w/CHEM 1031 or w/CHEM 1111 or w/CHEM 1131 or w/CHEM 1021
Track B: students are encouraged to take all labs. (Labs can be separate courses or integrated into a course.)

6) Economics Lower Division* (choose one)

ECON 1000, Intro to Economics
ECON 2010, Microeconomics

7) Economics Upper Division*

ECON 3535, Natural Resource Economics
ECON 3545, Environmental Economics

(Track A students take both ECON 3535 and 3545)

8) Environmental Ethics (choose one)

PHIL 3140*, Environmental Ethics
GEOG 3422, Conservation Thought PSCI 3064 Env Political Theory

9) Environmental Policy (choose one)

PSCI 2101, Intro to Public Policy Analysis
PSCI 3201, Environmental Public Policy

10a) Math Track A - Statistics (choose one)

MATH 2510,* Intro to Stats
MATH 2520,* Intro to Biometry
SOCY 2061, Intro to Social Stats
PSYC 3101, Stats Res Meth Psyc
PSCI 2074,* Quant Res Methods
PSCI 4074, Quant Res Methods
ECON 3818, Intro to Stats with Computer Apps
ECON 4808, Intro to Math Econ
ANTH 4000, Quant methods in Anthropology
EBIO 4410, Biometry
GEOG/GEOL3023, Stats for Earth Science
or any other approved stats course
or any other approved calculus course

10b) Math Track B - Calculus* (choose one)

MATH 1300, Analytic Geometry and Calc 1
MATH 1310, Calc 1 with Computer Apps.
APPM 1350, Calc 1 for Engineers
or any approved calculus course

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*Courses that also satisfy Arts and Sciences core curriculum requirements.

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