Geoscience Track
The Geoscience Track of the Environmental Studies major is for students interested in Earth surface processes, including global elemental cycling, land use, aqueous geochemistry, geobiology, 
paleoenvironmental processes, and climate change. Students take a number of required courses (A), complemented by electives fro two tiers (B,C).
Required Courses
- 1 of 2 of the following: ANTH 361. Culture and Environment, POL SCI 332. Environmental and Energy Issues
- ENST 294. Introduction to Environmental Studies: Social Science
- ENST 381. Introduction to Ecology
- EPSC 201. Earth and the Environment
- EPSC 323 Biogeochemistry
- EPSC 352 Earth Materials
- MATH 131 AND 132. Calculus I and II
- CHEM 111 AND 112. General Chemistry I and II
- ENST 490. Senior Seminar
Tier 1 Electives (3 of the following)
- EPSC 221 Human Use of the Earth
- EPSc 385 Earth History
- EPSC 401 Earth Systems Science
- EPSC 408 Earth’s Atmosphere and Global Climate
- EPSC 409 Surface Processes
- ENST 413 Introduction to Soil Science
- EPSC 418 Paleobiology
- EPSC 422 Sedimentary Geology
- EPSC 428 Hydrology
- EPSC 430 Environmental Mineralogy
- EPSC 444 Environmental Geochemistry
- EPSC 484 Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
- CHE 443 Environmental Chemistry
- CHE 262 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Tier 2 Electives (3 of the following)
- ANTH 367 – Paleoanthropology
- ANTH 434 – Behavioral research at the Zoo
- ANTH 459 – Human Osteology
- BIOL 3110 – Vertebrate Structure Laboratory
- BIOL 347 – Darwin and Evolutionary Controversies
- ENST 370 – Biological Conservation
- BIOL 4023 – How Plants Work: Physiology, Growth, and Metabolism
- BIOL 404 – Laboratory of Neurophysiology
- BIOL/ENST 4193 – Experimental Ecology Laboratory
- CHEM ENG 345 – Pollution Abatement & Waste Management
- CHEM 251 OR CHEM 252 – Organic Chemistry I, II
- CIV ENG 253/ENST 422 – Pollution and Environmental Impact
- CIV ENG 352A − Water and Wastewater Treatment
- EPSC 310 − Geological Field Methods
- EPSC 400 – Topics in the Geosciences
- EPSC 407 − Remote Sensing
- ENST 380 – Applications in GIS
- ENST 413 – Introduction to Soil Science
- EPSC 446 − Stable Isotope Geochemistry
- EPSc 448 – Microbial Geochemistry
- EPSC 449/ENST 4491 – Microbes and the Environment
- EPSC 454 − Exploration and Environmental Geophysics
- EPSC 480 − Special Topics in Microbiology-Chemistry-Earth Science
- ENST 4980/EPSC 498 – Undergraduate Research Seminar (WI)
- ENST/HIST 3225 - Environmental History of Latin America
- ENST/BIO 373 Behavioral Ecology Lab
- ENST 335 − Introduction to Environmental Ethics
- ENST 539 - Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
- ENST 332/POL SCI − Environment and Energy Issues
- PSYCH 330 – Sensation and Perception
- PSYCH 3401 – Introduction to Biological Psychology
- Pathfinder 201 AND 202 (both courses necessary for one requirement)
NOTE: Students must make sure that while completing the major, that they also complete 18 units of upper-level coursework (300 or above).