Environmental Science and Policy, B.A.

(120 units)

This degree is approved for distance education by the WSCUC.

Requirements

Lower Division:

Take all of the following courses:

ECON 100 - Principles of Macroeconomics (3 units)
*”C” or better required.
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.
GEOG 200 - Introduction to Research Methods for Geographers (3 units)
ERTH 280 - Water Resources and Society (3 units)

Take one of the following choices:

BIOL 200 - General Biology (4 units)
*”C” or better required.
BIOL 211 - Introduction to Evolution and Diversity (4 units)
*”C” or better required.

Take one of the following courses:

(“C” or better required)

CHEM 111A - General Chemistry (5 units)
CHEM 112A - Advanced General Chemistry (5 units)
CHEM 140 - General, Organic, and Biochemistry (5 units)
ERTH 191 - Air and Water Pollution (3 units)

Take one of the following courses:

(*”C” or better required.)

MATH 115 - Calculus for Business (3 units)
MATH 119A - Survey of Calculus I (3 units)
MATH 122 - Calculus I (4 units)

Take one of the following courses:

ES P 101 - The Global Environment (3 units)
or
GEOG 140 - Introduction to Physical Geography (3 units)
or
Any Introductory Environmental Science or Studies course

Upper Division

Take all of the following courses:

ES P 330 - California Ecosystems (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)
ECON 306 - Environmental Issues of the World Economy (3 units)
ECON 406 - Applied Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (3 units)
Students may substitute ECON 310 and ECON 462 or ECON 306 and ECON 406.

Take one of the following courses:

GEOG 473 - Remote Sensing for Environment and Society (4 units)
GEOG 481 - Geographic Information Science for Natural Sciences (4 units)

Specified Group 1: Humans and the Environment-Complete ONE of the following courses (3 units total):

ERTH 303 - Coastal Systems and Human Impacts (3 units)
ERTH 310 - Environmental Impacts of War (3 units)
GEOG 442 - Biogeography (3 units)
GEOG 447 - Landscape Restoration (3 units)
GEOG 455 - People as Agents of Environmental Change (3 units)
GEOG 458 - Hazards and Risk Management (3 units)

Specified Group 2: Land Use Policy and Planning-Complete ONE of the following courses (3 units total):

ES P 350 - Environmental Politics (3 units)
GEOG 359 - Coastal and Marine Science and Policy (3 units)
GEOG 446 - Land Use Planning (3 units)

Specified Group 3: Social and Environmental History-Complete ONE of the following courses (3 units total):

ASAM 350 - Environmental Justice (3 units)
ES P 450 - Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice (3 units)
ENGL 444 - Literature and Environment (3 units)
HIST 464 - Latin American Environmental History (3 units)
HIST 482 - Recent American Environmental History (3 units)
SOC 410 - Environmental Sociology (3 units)
WGSS 424 - Gendering Environmental Justice (3 units)

Specified Group 4: Applied Environmental Skills-Complete ONE of the following courses (3-4 units total):

C/LA 492 - Liberal Arts Internship (3 units)
ENGL 444 - Literature and Environment (3 units)
ES P 392 - Climate Action and Sustainability at CSULB (3 units)
ES P 492 - Applied Internship (3 units)
GEOG 443 - Watersheds: Processes and Management (4 units)
GEOG 448 - Environmental Assessment (3 units)
GEOG 486 - Field Methods in Landscape Analysis (4 units)
GEOG 492 - Applied Internship (3 units)

Additional 6 units

Additional 6 units of course work selected from courses approved as options satisfying upper division requirements above or from the following approved list of additional courses; all must be upper division or approved by the advisor.

Additional Approved Courses:

AIS 336 - Indigenous Philosophies of Sustainability (3 units)
ANTH 401 - Foundations of Anthropology (3 units)
BIOL 450 - Plant Ecology (3 units)
BIOL 456 - Population Ecology (3 units)
ECON 355 - Law and Economics (3 units)
ECON 410 - Advanced Microeconomics (3 units)
ECON 434 - Economics of Regulation (3 units)
ECON 485 - Introduction to Econometrics (4 units)
ENGR 302 - Energy and Environment: A Global Perspective (3 units)
ES P 490 - Selected Topics in Environmental Science and Policy (3 units)
ES P 499 - Environmental Science and Policy Directed Study (1-3 units)
GEOG 340 - Environmental Geography (3 units)
GEOG 355 - International Environmental Issues (3 units)
GEOG 400 - Spatial Data Science (4 units)
GEOG 440 - Land and Water Resources (3 units)
GEOG 441 - The Geography of Mars (3 units)
GEOG 443 - Watersheds: Processes and Management (4 units)
GEOG 444 - Climatology (3 units)
GEOG 445 - Paleoclimatology (4 units)
GEOG 452 - Geography of Globalization (3 units)
GEOG 460 - Population Geography (3 units)
GEOG 464 - Urban Geography: Sustainable Cities (3 units)
GEOG 471 - Geographic Information Science (GISci) for Justice (3 units)
GEOG 473 - Remote Sensing for Environment and Society (4 units)
GEOG 475 - Geographical Applications in Remote Sensing (4 units)
GEOG 482 - Advanced Digital Cartography & GIS (4 units)
GEOG 487A - Environmental GIS (4 units)
GEOG 488 - Geographic Information Science (GIS) Programming (4 units)
ERTH 303 - Coastal Systems and Human Impacts (3 units)
ERTH 339 - Introduction to Geomorphology (3 units)
ERTH 445 - Paleoclimatology (4 units)
HM 370 - Exploring a Sustainable Food System (3 units)
MKTG 405 - Green Marketing and Sustainability (3 units)
SOC 355 - Quantitative Methods of Social Research (4 units)
SOC 410 - Environmental Sociology (3 units)