The Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences requires a minimum of 120 hours including a minor. Students in this degree program take a broad, interdisciplinary approach that combines science with social science and humanities courses. Students are required to minor in a science to develop a deeper understanding of a specialized scientific field. Students with this degree are prepared for graduate school and career opportunities federal and state regulatory agencies; wildlife ranges and zoological parks; environmental consulting firms; state, county and city parks; state natural resource agencies; university and secondary schools; and nonprofit and non-government organizations (NGOs)

The completion of the Environmental Sciences Major requires a minor approved by your advisor. Common minor include Environmental Biology. Other possible minors include the Minor in Renewable Energy or Minor Green Chemistry and Engineering.

Students also are required to complete a 100-hr environment-related internship (EEES 4940 for 1credit hour) in an agency, corporation, university laboratory or other approved location. With the exception of EEES 4940, students may not take any courses required in the major as P/NC.

NOTE: Students pursuing a BS in Environmental Sciences cannot double major in a BS in Biology with a Concentration in Ecology and Organismal Biology nor BS in Environmental Geology.

For the Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Sciences (ENSC)  The following courses must be included:

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Core Curriculum credits shown include only courses not required elsewhere in the major or related fields.

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The completion of the Environmental Sciences Major requires a minor approved by your advisor. Common minors include Environmental Biology, and Geology. Other possible minors include the Minor in Renewable Energy or Minor Green Chemistry and Engineering. A minimum of 12 hours of unique courses not applied to the major must be included in the minor.

Combined bachelor's to master's-Environmental Sciences Pipeline Program

Undergraduate students accepted to the Environmental Sciences Pipeline Program will be admitted to the MS Environmental Sciences Non-thesis program and allowed to complete up to nine credits of graduate level classes during their final academic year of undergraduate studies. Students admitted into the pipeline program must apply for admission to the College of Graduate Studies for the semester that they intend to matriculate. They will then continue in to the graduate program upon completion of the undergraduate degree requirements. The graduate coursework (up to nine hours) may be applied to completion of both undergraduate and graduate degree requirements. It will be the joint responsibility of the faculty and administrators in the undergraduate and graduate programs to supervise students admitted to the combined program option, to ensure that the limit of nine hours taken as an undergraduate is strictly enforced, and to request that the College of Graduate Studies change their matriculation from Undergraduate to Graduate when they meet all undergraduate degree requirements.  

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

UT undergraduate students must 1) be majoring in either Biology with a Concentration in Ecology and Organismal Biology or Environmental Sciences, 2) have a minimum of 3.2 cumulative undergraduate grade point average that will include undergraduate credits earned at other institutions and transferred to UT, and 3) have approval of their advisor and department chair.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Students holding a junior standing should apply by March 31 of that year.  Application to this early pipeline program must contain 1) a letter of interest, 2) a completed graduate admission application, and 3) at least 3 letter(s) of recommendation from faculty members.

Pipeline B.S. to M.S. COURSES

The following provisions apply for classes taken for graduate credit: 1) graduate classes taken at The University of Toledo only after the student is accepted in the program, 2) EEES 6250 Graduate Launch and EEES 6300 Integrated Environmental & Earth Systems must be taken in the last two semesters of their undergraduate program, 3) Any other EEES course at the 5000 or 6000 level may be included in the approved nine semester hours of graduate credit taken as an undergraduate.

Below is a sample plan of study (for the Environmental Biology Minor¹). Consult your advisor and the degree audit for your program requirements.

• PLO A1. Environmental Science requires a basic understanding of geology, including an understanding of earth materials and landforms. A1. Students will be able to identify and classify minerals, rocks (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic), and common fossils.
• PLO A2. Environmental Science requires a basic understanding of geology, including an understanding of earth materials and landforms. A2. Students will be able to identify landforms and interpret formative processes of landforms from maps and digital elevation models.
• PLO B. Environmental Science uses the principles of biology to understand how organisms are affected by the environment. B1. Students will be able to explain how both abiotic factors, such as climate and pollution, and biotic factors, such as competition and disease, affect organisms, communities, and ecosystems.
• PLO C. Environmental Scientists interact with Social Scientists to understand the human context in which environmental problems exist. C1. Students will be able to propose and discuss public policy and planning options for improving or managing factors that impact the environment.
• PLO D. Environmental Scientists provide the science to address the impacts and solutions of environmental problems. D1. Students will be able to analyze the major environmental problems that are affecting our earth and well-being, including climate change, pollution, and resource management.
• PLO E. Environmental Science is a field-oriented science conducted, in part, through field investigations, which requires expertise in collecting field-based data. 1. Students will be able to organize and conduct data collection for a field-based investigation.
• PLO F1. Environmental Scientists require technical skills, including computing, statistics, and communication. 1. Students will be able to analyze data both graphically and statistically.
• PLO F2. Environmental Scientists require technical skills, including computing, statistics, and communication. 2. Students will be able to interpret and report results of a research project, in both audio-visual and written forms, using appropriate technology.
• PLO G1. Environmental Science is multi-disciplinary, but our students must have an area of concentration, such as Biology, Geology, or Chemistry (within Environmental Science). Students should be able to describe and explain examples of the linkages among their area of concentration and the other areas of Environmental Science.