Environmental Science and Policy, B.S.

Take all the following courses:

• BIOL 211 - Introduction to Evolution and Diversity (5 units)

• *”C” or better required.

• BIOL 212 - Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology (4 units)

• *”C” or better required.

• BIOL 213 - Introduction to Ecology and Physiology (4 units)

• *”C” or better required.

• BIOL 260 - Biostatistics (3 units)

• *”C” or better required.

• CHEM 111A - General Chemistry (5 units)

• *”C” or better required.

• OR  CHEM 112A - Advanced General Chemistry (5 units)

• *”C” or better

• CHEM 111B - General Chemistry (5 units)

• *”C” or better required.

• OR  CHEM 112B - Advanced General Chemistry (5 units)

• *”C” or better

• CHEM 227 - Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry (3 units)

• or

• CHEM 220A - Organic Chemistry I (3 units)

•  

• ECON 101 - Principles of Microeconomics (3 units)

• *”C” or better required

• ES P 200 - California Environmental Issues (3 units)
• ERTH 102 - Planet Earth (3 units)

• *”C” or better required.

• ERTH 104 - Planet Earth Lab (1 unit)

• (“C” or better required)

• ERTH 280 - Water Resources and Society (3 units)

Take one the following courses:

• MATH 122 - Calculus I (4 units)

• “C” or better required.

• MATH 119A - Survey of Calculus I (3 units)

• “C” or better required.

Take one the following courses:

• PHYS 151 - Mechanics and Heat (4 units)

• or

• PHYS 100A - General Physics (4 units)

Note

(BIOL 111, BIOL 111L, BIOL 212 , BIOL 212L , BIOL 213 , BIOL 213L  are required if courses were taken prior to catalog year 2010-11; also, if a transfer student took courses equivalent to BIOL 211 , BIOL 212 , or BIOL 213  at another institution without labs, they must take BIOL 212L , BIOL 213L , and BIOL 213L  here)

Take all the following courses:

• BIOL 350 - General Ecology (3 units)
• ES P 300 - Environmental Law and Policy (3 units)
• ES P 400 - Environmental Science and Policy Capstone Project (3 units)
• ERTH 300 - Earth Systems and Global Change (3 units)

Take one of the following courses:

• GEOG 481 - Geographic Information Science for Natural Sciences (4 units)

• or

• GEOG 473 - Introduction to Earth Observation (4 units)

Take the following course:

• ECON 306 - Environmental Issues of the World Economy (3 units)

Take 3 units of social science electives, chosen from the following:

• GEOG 340 - Environmental Geography (3 units)
• GEOG 355 - International Environmental Issues (3 units)
• GEOG 440 - Land and Water Resources (3 units)
• GEOG 446 - Land Use Planning (3 units)
• GEOG 447 - Landscape Restoration (3 units)
• GEOG 448 - Environmental Assessment (3 units)
• GEOG 450 - Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice (3 units)
• GEOG 455 - People as Agents of Environmental Change (3 units)
• GEOG 458 - Hazards and Risk Management (3 units)
• GEOG 460 - Population Geography (3 units)
• GEOG 464 - Urban Geography: Sustainable Cities (3 units)
• HIST 482 - Recent American Environmental History (3 units)
• ENGL 444 - Literature and Environment (3 units)
• ASAM 350 - Environmental Justice (3 units)
• WGSS 424 - Gendering Environmental Justice (3 units)
• ECON 462 - Environmental Economics (3 units)
• ES P 450 - Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice (3 units)

Take 9 units of natural science electives, chosen from the following:

• BIOL 312 - Evolutionary Biology (3 units)
• BIOL 313 - Invertebrate Zoology (4 units)
• BIOL 316 - General Entomology (4 units)
• BIOL 324 - Vertebrate Zoology (4 units)
• BIOL 342 - Human/Mammalian Physiology (3 units)
• BIOL 345 - Comparative Animal Physiology (3 units)
• BIOL 353 - Marine Biology (3 units)
• BIOL 355 - Microbial Ecology (3 units)
• BIOL 415 - Marine Microbiology (3 units)
• BIOL 419 - Ichthyology (3 units)
• BIOL 420 - Fisheries Ecology and Conservation (3 units)
• BIOL 421 - Herpetology (3 units)
• BIOL 423 - Mammalogy (3 units)
• BIOL 424 - Ornithology (3 units)
• BIOL 427 - Vascular Plant Systematics (4 units)
• BIOL 439 - Plant Morphology (4 units)
• BIOL 450 - Plant Ecology (3 units)
• BIOL 451 - Wetlands and Mangrove Ecology (3 units)
• BIOL 452 - Behavioral Ecology (3 units)
• BIOL 454A - Research in Tropical Marine Ecology (3 units)
• BIOL 454B - Research in Tropical Terrestrial Ecology (3 units)
• BIOL 455 - Ecology of Marine Communities (3 units)
• BIOL 456 - Population Ecology (3 units)
• BIOL 457 - Field Methods in Ecology (3 units)
• BIOL 459 - Conservation Biology (3 units)
• BIOL 496 - Undergraduate Directed Research (1-3 units)
• ERTH 303 - Coastal Systems and Human Impacts (3 units)
• ERTH 339 - Introduction to Geomorphology (3 units)
• ERTH 341 - Paleontology and Biostratigraphy (4 units)
• ERTH 445 - Paleoclimatology (4 units)
• ERTH 461 - Introduction to Geochemistry (3 units)
• ERTH 465 - Physical and Chemical Oceanography (3 units)
• ERTH 466 - Oceanography Laboratory and Ocean Studies (1 unit)
• ERTH 474 - Physical Hydrology (3 units)
• ERTH 477 - Hydrogeology (4 units)

Take an additional 3 units

Take an additional 3 units selected from the social science or natural science electives listed above if necessary to meet the university requirement for upper division units.