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Environmental Earth Science 1 Environmental Earth Science 1 In addition to the University, campus, and college requirements, listed Environmental Earth on the College Requirements tab, students must fulfill the below Science requirements specific to their major program. General Guidelines Bachelor of Arts (BA) 1. All courses taken to fulfill the major requirements below must be taken for graded credit, other than courses listed which are offered on The environmental earth science major is designed to provide students a Pass/No Pass basis only. Other exceptions to this requirement are with a broad background in the earth sciences with an emphasis on noted as applicable. environmental sciences. Interrelationships between physical, biological, 2. No more than two upper division courses may be used to and chemical processes at Earth's surface will be emphasized. The simultaneously fulfill requirements for a student's double major major focuses broadly on the natural sciences by primarily using earth and no more one course may be used to fulfill minor program science as a base for expanding outward depending upon students' requirements with the exception of minors offered outside of the interests by incorporating courses in biology, hydrology, hazardous College of Letters & Science. waste management, ecology, and natural resources. The program is 3. A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 must be maintained designed to provide background for graduate study in environmental in both upper and lower division courses used to fulfill the major science, preparation for work within government agencies such as the requirements. Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, United States Geological Survey or consulting firms, or broader involvement in For information regarding residence requirements and unit requirements, land use planning, business, policy, law or management. please see the College Requirements tab. Declaring the Major Lower Division Requirements The department strongly encourages students to see the student services EPS 50 The Planet Earth 4 advisor as early as possible. Students are accepted into the major with Select one of the following math sequences: a C average or better. There are a number of scholarships and research opportunities as well as other benefits available to declared majors. MATH 16A Analytic Geometry and Calculus & MATH 16B and Analytic Geometry and Calculus Honors Program MATH 1A Calculus & MATH 1B and Calculus Students in the honors program must fulfill the following additional requirements: (1) maintain a GPA of at least 3.3 in all courses in the MATH 10A Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and major, and an overall GPA of at least 3.3 in the University; and (2) carry & MATH 10B Combinatorics out an individual research or study project, involving at least 3 units of and Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, EPS H195. The project is chosen in consultation with a departmental and Combinatorics advisor, and the written report is judged by the student's research CHEM 1A General Chemistry 5 supervisor and a departmental adviser. & 1AL and General Chemistry Laboratory or CHEM 4A General Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis Minor Program BIOLOGY 1B General Biology Lecture and Laboratory 4 For information regarding the requirements, please see the Minor Select one of the following physics sequences: Requirements tab. Program planning and confirmation should be done PHYSICS 5A Introductory Mechanics and Relativity with the undergraduate student services adviser and the environmental & PHYSICS 5Band Introductory Electromagnetism, Waves, and earth science faculty adviser. & PHYSICS 5BLOptics Other Majors and Minors Offered by the and Introduction to Experimental Physics I PHYSICS 8A Introductory Physics Department of Earth and Planetary Science & PHYSICS 8Band Introductory Physics Climate Science (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- PHYSICS 7A Physics for Scientists and Engineers programs/climate-science/) (Minor only) & PHYSICS 7Band Physics for Scientists and Engineers Atmospheric Science (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- Upper Division Requirements programs/atmospheric-science/) (Major and Minor) Geology (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree-programs/ EPS 102 History and Evolution of Planet Earth 4 geology/) (Major and Minor) EPS 117 Geomorphology 4 Geophysics (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree-programs/ EPS 150 Case Studies in Earth Systems 1 2 geophysics/) (Major and Minor) ENE,RES 102 Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental 4 Marine Science (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- Problems programs/marine-science/) (Major and Minor) Electives, select 12 upper division units from the following list of 12 Planetary Science (http://guide.berkeley.edu/undergraduate/degree- suggested courses: 2 programs/planetary-science/) (Major and Minor) EPS 100A Minerals: Their Constitution and Origin [4] EPS 100B Genesis and Interpretation of Rocks [4] EPS C100 Communicating Ocean Science [4] 2 Environmental Earth Science EPS 103/203 Introduction to Aquatic and Marine Geochemistry 4. A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 is required for courses [4] used to fulfill the minor requirements. EPS 108 Geodynamics [4] 5. Courses used to fulfill the minor requirements may be applied toward EPS 109 Computer Simulations with Jupyter Notebooks [4] the Seven-Course Breadth requirement, for Letters & Science students. EPS 115 Stratigraphy and Earth History [4] 6. No more than one upper division course may be used to EPS 122 Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors [3] simultaneously fulfill requirements for a student's major and minor EPS 124 Isotopic Geochemistry [4] programs. EPS 125 Stable Isotope Geochemistry [4] 7. All minor requirements must be completed prior to the last day of EPS 131 Geochemistry [4] finals during the semester in which you plan to graduate. If you EPS C178 Applied Geophysics [3] cannot finish all courses required for the minor by that time, please EPS C180 Air Pollution [3] see a College of Letters & Science adviser. EPS C181 Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics [3] 8. All minor requirements must be completed within the unit ceiling. (For ESPM 120 Science of Soils [3] further information regarding the unit ceiling, please see the College Requirements tab.) ESPM C125 Biogeography [4] ESPM C128 Chemistry of Soils [3] Requirements ESPM 130A Forest Hydrology [4] Lower Division GEOG C136 Terrestrial Hydrology [4] EPS 50 The Planet Earth (or equivalent) 4 CIV ENG 115 Water Chemistry [3] Upper Division GEOG 140A Physical Landscapes: Process and Form [4] Select a minimum of five of the following: GEOG 140B Physiography and Geomorphologic Extremes [4] EPS 100A Minerals: Their Constitution and Origin [4] GEOG 142 Climate Dynamics [4] EPS 100B Genesis and Interpretation of Rocks [4] GEOG 143 Global Change Biogeochemistry [3] EPS C100 Communicating Ocean Science [4] GEOG 144 Principles of Meteorology [3] EPS 102 History and Evolution of Planet Earth [4] INTEGBI 113L Paleobiological Perspectives on Ecology and EPS 103 Introduction to Aquatic and Marine Geochemistry Evolution [4] [4] INTEGBI 153 Course Not Available EPS 109 Computer Simulations with Jupyter Notebooks [4] INTEGBI C155 Holocene Paleoecology: How Humans Changed EPS 115 Stratigraphy and Earth History [4] the Earth [3] EPS 117 Geomorphology [4] INTEGBI 159 The Living Planet: Impact of the Biosphere on the Earth System [3] EPS 131 Geochemistry [4] INTEGBI 160 Evolution [4] EPS C178 Applied Geophysics [3] INTEGBI 184L Morphology of the Vertebrate Skeleton with EPS C180 Air Pollution [3] Laboratory [4] EPS C181 Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics [3] 1 This course can only be taken during the student's senior year. Undergraduate students must fulfill the following requirements in addition 2 All elective courses used to fulfill the major requirements must be to those required by their major program. approved by the faculty adviser. This list is intended as a guide; the For detailed lists of courses that fulfill college requirements, please suggested courses are not limited to only courses included in this list. review the College of Letters & Sciences (http://guide.berkeley.edu/ undergraduate/colleges-schools/letters-science/) page in this Guide. For Students who have a strong interest in an area of study outside their College advising appointments, please visit the L&S Advising (https:// major often decide to complete a minor program. These programs lsadvising.berkeley.edu/home/) Pages. have set requirements and are noted officially on the transcript in the memoranda section, but they are not noted on diplomas. University of California Requirements General Guidelines Entry Level Writing (http://writing.berkeley.edu/node/78/) 1. All minors must be declared no later than one semester before a All students who will enter the University of California as freshmen must student's Expected Graduation Term (EGT). If the semester before demonstrate their command of the English language by fulfilling the EGT is fall or spring, the deadline is the last day of RRR week. If Entry Level Writing requirement. Fulfillment of this requirement is also a the semester before EGT is summer, the deadline is the final Friday prerequisite to enrollment in all reading and composition courses at UC of Summer Sessions. To declare a minor, contact the department Berkeley. advisor for information on requirements, and the declaration process. American History and American Institutions (http:// 2. All courses taken to
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