Environmental Sciences - Environmental Sciences Option

Freshman YearCredits
FallSpring
ENSC 110 - Land Resources and Environmental Sciences3  
BIOB 170IN - Principles of Biological Diversity4  
CHMY 141 - College Chemistry I
& CHMY 142 - College Chemistry I Lab
4  
WRIT 101W - College Writing I3  
BIOB 160 - Principles of Living Systems  4
CHMY 143 - College Chemistry II
& CHMY 144 - College Chemistry II Lab
  4
M 161Q - Survey of Calculus  4
US Core  3
Year Total: 14 15
Sophomore YearCredits
FallSpring
ENSC 245IN - Soils3  
GPHY 284 - Intro to GIS Science & Cartog 3  
Take one of the following:3  
STAT 216Q - Introduction to Statistics
BIOB 318 - Biometry
STAT 332 - Statistics for Scientists and Engineers
Univ. Core6  
ENSC 210 - Role of Plants in the Environment  3
ENSC 260 - Evolution for Env Scientists  3
WRIT 201 - College Writing II
or HONR 202IH - Texts and Critics: Knowledge & Imagination II
  3
PHSX 205 - College Physics I  4
Univ. Core  3
Year Total: 15 16
Junior YearCredits
FallSpring
ENSC 353 - Environmental Biogeochemistry3  
Take one of the following:3  
BIOE 370 - General Ecology
NRSM 240 - Natural Resource Ecology
Directed Electives6  
Univ. Core3  
ENSC 311 - Fundamentals of Environmental Data Analysis  3
Directed Electives  12
Year Total: 15 15
Senior YearCredits
FallSpring
ENSC 444 - Watershed Hydrology3  
Take one of the following:3  
NRSM 430 - Natural Resource Law
PSCI 362 - Natural Resource Policy
Directed Electives9  
ENSC 499R - LRES Capstone  3
Directed Electives  12
Year Total: 15 15
Total Program Credits: 120

Directed Electives

Each student shall work closely with their faculty advisor to plan an integrated set of directed elective courses appropriate to their academic, professional and personal goals.  Courses not on this list may be used IF considered appropriate to the student's goals AND approved by the faculty advisor as a curricular exception.  Students choosing to take lower level courses (1xx/2xx) for directed electives should be sure they are meeting the university minimum requirement of 42 credits of upper level classes (3xx/4xx) for graduation.
Take 39 credits of directed electives from the following:
AGSC 401Integrated Pest Management3
AGSC 428Cropping Systems and Sustainable Agriculture3
BIOE 375Ecological Responses to Climate Change3
BIOE 408Rocky Mountain Vegetation3
BIOE 416Alpine Ecology3
BIOE 421Yellowstone Wildlife Ecology3
BIOE 422Insect Ecology3
BIOE 424Ecology of Fungi4
BIOE 427RNResearch in Freshwater Ecology3
BIOE 428Freshwater Ecology3
BIOE 439Stream Ecology3
BIOE 445Macrosystems Ecology: Linking Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems Across Scales3
BIOE 455Plant Ecology3
BIOM 415Microbial Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution3
BIOM 421Concepts of Plant Pathology3
BIOM 423Mycology3
BIOM 452Soil & Envirnmntl Microbiology3
BIOM 465Plant-Pathogen Interactions3
ENSC 407Environmental Risk Assessment3
ENSC 410RBiodiversity Survey and Monitoring Methods3
ENSC 443Weed Ecology and Management3
ENSC 445Watershed Analysis3
ENSC 448Stream Restoration Ecology3
ENSC 454Landscape Pedology3
ENSC 458Teaching Applications in LRES1-3
ENSC 460Soil Remediation3
ENSC 461Restoration Ecology3
ENSC 466Chemical Ecology3
ENSC 468Ecosystem Biogeochem and Global Change3
ERTH 303Weather and Climate3
ERTH 307Principles of Geomorphology4
ERTH 432RSurface Water Resources3
GPHY 357GPS Fund/App in Mapping3
GPHY 358GPS Mapping Srvc Learning1
GPHY 384Adv GIS and Spatial Analysis3
GPHY 402Water and Society3
GPHY 411Biogeography3
GPHY 429RApplied Remote Sensing3
GPHY 484RApplied GIS & Spatial Analysis3
M 172Calculus II4
NRSM 330Fire Ecology and Mgmt3
NRSM 353Grazing Ecology and Management3
NRSM 421Holistic Thought/Mgmt4
NRSM 455Riparian Ecology & Management3
STAT 217Intermediate Statistical Concepts3
STAT 337Intermediate Statistics with Introduction to Statistical Computing3
STAT 411Methods for Data Analysis I3
WILD 301Princ of Fish & Wildlife Mgmt3
WILD 426Wild Habitat Management3
WILD 438Wildlife Habitat Ecology3

Because some of our courses are offered during alternate years, the proposed scheduling of courses in junior and senior years may need to be modified.  Work with an advisor to determine an individual schedule.

A minimum of 120 credits is required for graduation; at least 42 of these credits must be in courses numbered 300 and above.