Environmental Physical Science Program Requirements

1. Entrance Level Core

CHEM 112 General Chemistry 1

CHEM 113 Experimental General Chemistry 1

MATH 123 Calculus 1

MATH 124 Calculus 2

GEOL 201/202 Physical Geology/Lab

or

GEOL 203/204 Historical Geology Lab

2. Professional Core

CHEM 114 General Chemistry 2

CHEM 115 Experimental General Chemistry 2

MATH 125 Calculus 2

MATH 126 Calculus 2 Lab

GEOL 201/202 Physical Geology/Lab

or

GEOL 203/204 Historical Geology/Lab

PHYS 211 University Physics 1

PHYS 212 University Physics Lab

PHYS 213 University Physics 2

PHYS 214 University Physics Lab

3. Students may choose any seven courses from the following list, with at least 3 courses with a GEOL prefix, and two with a MATH prefix:

GEOL340 Mineralogy/Petrology

GEOL350 Environmental Geology

GEOL360 Environmental Geochemistry

GEOL370 Hydrogeology

GEOL399 Environmental Geology Seminar

CEE499 Monitoring and Modeling Earth Systems (at SDSMT)

GEOE322 Structural Geology (at SDSMT)

SCI388 GPS and GIS

BIOL317/318 Electron Microscopy

BIOL361/362 Paleobotany/Lab

CHEM434/435 Instrumental Analysis/Lab

CHEM440 Physical Chemistry

PHYS325 Modern Physics

PHYS431 Quantum Mechanics

MATH225 Calculus 3

MATH281 Introductory Probability and Statistics

MATH321 Differential Equations

MATH351 Discrete Mathematics

MATH373 Numerical Methods

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