Policy Focus Requirements

In addition to the core courses, Science Focus majors are required to take the following:

Science Electives – must take 7 credits total

Physical Science Electives – take one course from:

• CHEM 100 Concepts in Chemistry (3)
• CHEM 120 Chem. in the Atmosphere (4)
• CHEM 210/211 General Chemistry (4/4)
• IDST 210 Outdoor Env. Studies-Geophysical (4)
• ENVS 305 Env. Issues & the Phys. Sci – DCE (3)
• ENVS 307 Issues in Sci: Georesources – DCE (3)
• ENVS 380 Conservation Biology (4)
• ENVS 450 Environmental Health (3)
• ENVS 480 Independent Study (1-5)
• PHYS 107 Energy and the Environment (3)
• PHYS 210 Introduction to Mechanics (5)

Biological Science Electives – take one course from:

• ANTH/BIOL 105 Human Bio and Evolution (3)
• ANTH 290 Plants and Society (4)
• BIOL 104 Genetics: A 20^th Century Science (3)
• BIOL 106 Microbes and Man (3)
• BIOL 107 Animals in Action (3)
• BIOL 108 Ecology of Ecosystems (3)
• BIOL 210 Principles of Biology (4)
• BIOL 225 Tropical Ecology of Costa Rica (3)
• BIOL 235 Field Methods in Bio & Env Sci (4)
• BIOL 250 Plant Growth and Development (5)
• BIOL 260 Genetics (5)
• BIOL 280 Marine Ecology (4)
• BIOL 285 Principles of Ecology (5)
• BIOL 330 Insect Biology (4)
• BIOL 450 Evolution (5)
• ENVS 302 Shoreline Ecology (3)
• ENVS 303 Human Ecosystems – DCE (3)
• ENVS 306 Fire Hist. of the Cascades DCE (3)
• ENVS 308 Water Resources – DCE (3)
• ENVS 360 Forest Ecology and Management (4)
• ENVS 440 Epidemiology (3)
• ENVS 490 Independent Research or Thesis (2-5)

Social Science Electives

16 credits with at least 8 credits from a single discipline and at least 2 disciplines represented from the following:

• ANTH 111 Cultural Anthropology (4)
• ANTH 112 Archaeology and World Prehistory (4) ANTH/BIOL 290 Plants and Society (4)
• ECON 332 Development Economics (4)
• ECON 351 Public Sector Economics
• ENVS 230 Introduction to GIS (3)
• HIST 252 History of the US West (4)
• HIST 268 Hist of Nature and Pop Culture in US (4)
• HIST 353 How the West Fed the United States (4)
• POLS 362 Intnl. Law, Ethics, and Global Gov. (4)
• SOAN/ENVS 250 Environmental Sociology (4)
• SOAN 330 Sociology of Community (4)
• SOAN 365 Urban Society and Culture (4)
• SOAN 375 City and Countryside in Transition (4)
• SOCL 101 Fundamentals of Sociology (4)
• SOCL 370 Society, State and Social Policy (4)

*Some substitutions allowed by permission of the ENVS Coordinator