Nov 21, 2024

2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Environmental Science and Policy, B.S.

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Transferability of credits from other institutions that are not already approved for articulation to Chapman will be determined at the discretion of the program director.

All students must complete required coursework in five competency areas for a total of 51-52 credits (35-36 lower-division and 16 upper-division credits). The competency areas include:

quantitative foundations, competency
science competency
environmental science and policy competency
data acquisition and analysis and display
systems approach to environmental decision making

Students then select to concentrate in one of three areas of study: ecology, earth systems or environmental policy. Students must complete 9-12 credits in their selected area of study and 3-4 credits in each of the other areas of study (for a total of 15-20 credits).

Students are required to complete a capstone course.

Program Learning Outcomes and Educational Effectiveness Evaluation Plans for B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy.

Students pursuing the B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy are required to:

Earn an overall GPA of 2.000 for all required major courses.
Complete all courses in the major for a letter grade, except those where the default grading option is P/NP.
Complete a minimum of 21 credits from upper-division courses in the major.
Complete the capstone course requirement, ENV 498 .

Majors are required to enroll in FFC 100B - First Year Foundations: Grand Challenges in Science and Engineering to satisfy their General Education requirement.

Grand Challenges Initiative (3 credits)

SCI 150 - Grand Challenges in Science and Engineering I 1 credit
SCI 200 - Grand Challenges in Science and Engineering II 1 credit
SCI 250 - Grand Challenges in Science and Engineering III 1 credit

quantitative competency (6 credits)

MATH 110 - Single Variable Calculus I 3 credits
MATH 303 - Biostatistics 3 credits

science competency (16 credits)

PHYS 107 - General Physics for the Life Sciences I, Lecture and Laboratory 4 credits
CHEM 140 - General Chemistry I 3 credits
CHEM 140L - General Chemistry I Laboratory 1 credit
CHEM 150 - General Chemistry II 3 credits
CHEM 150L - General Chemistry II Laboratory 1 credit
BIOL 205 - Evolution and Diversity of Multicellular Organisms (Gen Biol II) 3 credits
BIOL 205L - Evolution and Diversity of Multicellular Organisms (Gen Biol II), Lab 1 credit

environmental science and policy competency (19-20 credits)

requirements
ENV 101 - Introduction to Environmental Science 3 credits
ENV 102 - Introduction to Environmental Policy 3 credits
ECON 200 - Principles of Microeconomics 3 credits
ENV 205 - Seminar Series 1 credit
ENV 374 - Environmental Politics and Policy 3 credits
ENV 375 - Public Policy Process 3 credits
one of the following
ENV 111 - Physical Geology 3 credits
AND
ENV 111L - Physical Geology Laboratory 1 credit
OR
ENV 112 - Introduction to Hazards and Global and Environmental Change 3 credits

data acquisition, analysis and display (4 credits)

ENV 310 - Geographic Information Systems, Lecture and Laboratory 4 credits

systems approach to environmental decision making (3 credits)

ENV 330 - Environmental Problem Solving: Energy and Matter Flow 3 credits

capstone course (3 credits)

ENV 498 - Environmental Problem Solving: Senior Capstone and Seminar 3 credits

area of study requirements (15-20 credits)

Complete all the requirements within one of the following areas of study

total credits 69-75

ecology area of study (16-20 credits)

three of the following (10-12 credits)
BIOL 301 - Plant Biology, Lecture and Laboratory 4 credits
BIOL 319 - Ecosystem Ecology, Lecture and Laboratory 4 credits
BIOL 324 - Ecology, Lecture and Laboratory 4 credits
BIOL 338 - Ornithology, Lecture and Laboratory 4 credits
BIOL 433 - Animal Behavior, Lecture and Laboratory 4 credits
BIOL 440 - Marine Biology, Lecture and Laboratory 4 credits
ENV 490 - Independent Internship 1-3 credits
ENV 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity 1-3 credits
select two additional courses (6-8 credits)*
one course from each of the other areas of study
course from earth systems area of study 3-4 credits
course from environmental policy area of study 3-4 credits

earth systems area of study (15-17 credits)

three of the following (9 credits)
ENV 301 - Environmental Geology 3 credits
ENV 320 - The Science of Climate Change 3 credits
CHEM 325 - Atmospheric Chemistry 3 credits
CHEM 327 - Environmental Geochemistry 3 credits
ENV 420 - Environmental Hydrology 3 credits
ENV 440 - Remote Sensing of the Environment 3 credits
ENV 490 - Independent Internship 1-3 credits
ENV 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity 1-3 credits
select two additional courses (6-8 credits)*
one course from each of the other areas of study
course from ecology area of study 3-4 credits
course from environmental policy area of study 3-4 credits

environmental policy area of study (15-17 credits)

three of the following (9 credits)
HIST 301 - U.S. Environmental History 3 credits
PHIL 303 - Environmental Ethics 3 credits
POSC 335 - Political Economy 3 credits
SOC 335 - Society and the Environment 3 credits
POSC 346 - Environmental Law 3 credits
ENV 350 - Corporate Sustainability Management 3 credits
ENV 360 - Environmental Advocacy Through Story 3 credits
POSC 370 - Energy Politics 3 credits
ENG 374 - Environmental Rhetoric 3 credits
POSC 378 - Special Topics in Public Policy 3 credits
ENV 392 - Law and Policy of Water Resources Management 3 credits
ECON 465 - Environmental and Natural Resources Economics 3 credits
ENV 490 - Independent Internship 1-3 credits
ENV 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity 1-3 credits
select two additional courses (6-8 credits)*
one course from each of the other areas of study
course from ecology area of study 3-4 credits
course from earth systems area of study 3-4 credits
*No double counting of courses. The selection of ENV 490 or ENV 491 will be applied to the appropriate track based on the faculty advisor’s home department or the description of the internship.

Students with sufficient high school background or appropriate AP, IB test scores may waive BIOL 205 , CHEM 140 /CHEM 140L , ENV 101 , MATH 110 and/or PHYS 107 .