Earth Sciences (BA)

College Breadth Requirements:

These requirements apply to all College of Earth, Ocean & Environment Bachelor of Arts degrees. College Breadth courses, when combined with University Breadth courses must represent at least two departments or appropriate instructional units in each category.

If the grade earned is sufficient, a course may be applied toward more than one requirement (e.g., breadth and major requirements), but the credits are counted only once toward the total credits for graduation. If all but one course in a group has been taken in one department or program, a course cross-listed with that program will not satisfy the distribution requirement.

Three credits in each category below can be used to fulfill the University Breadth requirement:

• Creative Arts and Humanities  (nine credits)

Understanding and appreciation of the visual and performing arts, of aesthetic forms, designs, or craftsmanship, or of literary, philosophical, and intellectual traditions. Courses may focus on a single aesthetic form or intellectual tradition, or cross-cultural comparisons.

• History and Cultural Change  (nine credits)

Understanding of the sources and forces of historical changes in ideas, beliefs, institutions, and cultures. Courses may address social, cultural, intellectual, economic, technological, artistic, scientific, and political development, changes in a discipline, or globalization and its effects.

• Social and Behavioral Sciences  (nine credits)

Understanding of the behavior of individuals and social groups in the context of their human and natural environments. Courses emphasize the empirical findings, applications, and methods of the social and behavioral sciences.

• Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology  (10 credits)

Understanding of fundamental and/or applied concepts and phenomena from mathematics, logic, natural or physical sciences, and technology including quantitative reasoning and methods used to approach and solve problems. Courses taken to fulfill this category (University and College Breadth) must include a minimum of one course with an associated laboratory.

Foreign Language:

• Completion of the intermediate-level course (107,112, or 202) in an ancient or modern language with minimum grades of D-.
  • The number of credits (0-12) needed and initial placement will depend on the number of years of high school study of foreign language.
    • Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language, or who have gained proficiency in a foreign language by other means, may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination  through the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department.

Mathematics:

Successful completion of one of the following options:

Second Writing Requirement:

This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours, completed with a minimum grade of C-, and the section enrolled must be designated as satisfying the requirement in the academic term completed.

Choose one of the following:

• ENSC 450 - Proseminar in the Environment Credit(s): 3
• ENVR 450 - Proseminar in the Environment Credit(s): 3
• GEOG 346 - Urban Cultural Geography Credit(s): 3
• GEOG 445 - Capstone in Geography Credit(s): 3
• GEOL 401 - Senior Seminar: Topics in Geoscience Credit(s): 3
• MAST 406 - Technical Writing for the Marine Sciences Credit(s): 3
• College of Arts and Sciences approved second writing course .