This is an unofficial listing. Consult the General Announcements for official requirements.

• Overview of Major
  
• Requirements for Major
  

Overview

The B.A. in Environmental Science double major is designed to accommodate:

• Students wishing to obtain a solid preparation for later graduate study in environmental science or other careers as environmental professionals (e.g., environmental economics or environmental law), and
  
• Students pursuing other careers (e.g., historians, lawyers, mechanical engineers, chemists) who hope to contribute to solutions to one of the major global issues of the 21st Century.

The 67-semester-hour (minimum) double major in environmental science may be taken in conjunction with any stand-alone major offered in any school of the university.

The key components of the double major include:

• Foundation course work in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology.
  
• A set of 5 undergraduate core courses, required of all double majors, that acquaint undergraduates with a range of environmental problems encountered by scientists, engineers, managers, and policy makers. Core courses stress the components of the global environment and their interactions.
  
• 24 semester hours of environmental electives from four categories (1) social sciences and economics, (2) humanities and architecture, (3) natural sciences, and (4) engineering. Students may petition to have electives, in addition to those currently listed, apply toward the double major.

Major tracking forms are available in the Center for the Study of Environment and Society (CSES) office for declared Environmental Science majors.

Academic advisors for the double major are:

• Paul Harcombe, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (harcomb@rice.edu, x4924)
  
• Dale S. Sawyer, Earth Science (dale@rice.edu)
  

Specific Course Requirements

General Prerequisites:

CHEM 121 or 151 General Chemistry with Laboratory
CHEM 122 or 152 General Chemistry with Laboratory
MATH 101 or 111 Single Variable Calculus I
MATH 102 or 112 Single Variable Calculus II
PHYS 101 or 125 or 111 Mechanics
PHYS 102 or 126 or 112 Electricity and Magnetism
BIOS 201 Introductory Biology
BIOS 202 Introductory Biology

Core Courses

S	BIOS 325	Ecology
F	ESCI 221	Earth System Evolution and Cycles
	One of the following two courses:
F	PHYS 443	Atmospheric Science
S	CEVE 411	Air Resources Management
	Two of the following three courses:
F	CEVE 401	Introduction to Environmental Chemistry
S	CEVE 412	Hydrology and Watershed Analysis
F	ESCI 451	Analysis of Environmental Data

Advanced Electives - 24 hrs, min. 6 hrs per category
Students may petition to substitute alternative courses for the courses listed
Category A - Social Sciences and Business
F	ECON 480	Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
S	CEVE 308	Global Environmental Law & Sustainable Development
S	CEVE 406	Environmental Law
S	ENST 302/ UNIV 303	Environmental Issues: Rice into the Future
F	POLI 317	Congress
S	POLI 331	Environmental Politics & Policy
S	POLI 332	Urban Politics
S	POLI 334	Political Parties and Interest Groups
F	SOCI 313	Demography
F	SOCI 367	Environmental Sociology
F	SOCI 411	Social Change: Making Sense of Our Times
Category B - Humanities and Architecture
F	ANTH 468 / ESCI 468	Climate Variability & Human Response
F	ARCH 313	Sustainable Architecture
F	ARCH 351	Social Issues and Architecture
S	ENGL 367	American Ecofeminism
F	ENGL 378	Literature and the Environment
S	ENST 301 / UNIV 300	Introduction to the Environment: Environmental History and Literature
Category C - Natural Sciences
F	BIOS 316	Lab Module in Ecology
F	BIOS 321	Animal Behavior
S	BIOS 322	Global Ecosystem Dynamics
F	BIOS 323	Conservation Biology
S	BIOS 324	Wetland Ecosystems
F	BIOS 334	Evolution
F	CHEM 211	Organic Chemistry
F	ESCI 353	Environmental Geochemistry
F	ESCI 421	Paleoceanography
F	ESCI 430	Trace Element and Isotope Geochemistry
F	ESCI 442	Exploration Geophysics
S	ESCI 454	Geographic Information Science
Category D - Engineering
S	CENG 503	Chemical Engineering Processes I: Air Pollution Control
F	CEVE 201	Introduction to Environmental Systems
F	CEVE 401	Introduction to Environmental Chemistry
F	CEVE 403	Principles of Environmental Engineering
S	CEVE 411	Air Resources Management
S	CEVE 412	Hydrology and Watershed Analysis
F	CEVE 434	Chemical Transport and Fate in the Environment
S	CEVE 451	Introduction to Transportation
F	CEVE 470	Basic Soil Mechanics
F/S	CEVE 490	Undergraduate Research in Env. Science and Engineering
S	STAT 300	Model Building
S	STAT 305	Introduction to Statistics for the Biosciences
F	STAT 310	Probability and Statistics
F	STAT 339	Statistical Methods - Psychology