ESCI Interest Areas
WHAT ARE YOU INTERESTED IN?
This list provides ideas for strategically clustering your coursework around specific topics of interest.
This list is intended to be a guide you can use along with the ESCI “tip sheet” and not a comprehensive list because courses are always changing.
Remember that ESCI majors can only count ONE class in THREE of the four core areas (Social Science, Policy, Humanities, and Sustainable Design and Practice) for their major requirements.
** Area 3A LS = Life Science | Area 3A EPS = Earth and Physical Science | ELP = Environmental Leadership Program **
| Department | Course # | Title | Major Area Requirement |
| ENVS | 350 | Ecology of Energy Generation | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 321 | Climatology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 361 | Global Environmental Change | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 421 | Advanced Climatology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 430 | Long-Term Environ. Change | Natural Science (EPS) |
| PS | 367 | Science and Politics of Climate Change | Policy Elective |
| Department | Course # | Title | Major Area Requirement |
| GEOG | 322 | Geomorphology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 323 | Biogeography | Natural Science (LS) |
| GEOG | 361 | Global Environmental Change | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 423 | Advanced Biogeography | Natural Science (LS) |
| GEOG | 433 | Fire and Natural Disturbance | Natural Science (LS) |
| GEOG | 461 | Environmental Alteration | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 315 | Earth Physics | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 462 | Environmental Geomechanics | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 468 | Intro Seismology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| LA | 413 | Analyzing Land Systems | Analytical Approaches |
| LA | 440 | Introduction to Landscape Planning Analysis | Sustain. Design and Practice |
| Department | Course # | Title | Major Area Requirement |
| ANTH | 375 | Primates in Ecological Communities | Natural Science (LS) |
| BI | 306 | Pollination Biology | Natural Science (LS) |
| BI | 370 | Principles of Ecology | Natural Science (LS) |
| BI | 432 | Mycology | Natural Science (LS) |
| BI | 471 | Population Ecology | Natural Science (LS) |
| BI | 472 | Community Ecology | Natural Science (LS) |
| BI | 473 | Quantitative Ecology | Analytical Approaches |
| BI | 474 | Marine Ecology (OIMB) | Natural Science (LS) |
| BI | 476 | Terrestrial Ecology | Natural Science (LS) |
| BI | 478/479 | Neotropical Ecology in Ecuador | Natural Science (LS) |
| ENVS | 450 | Political Ecology | Social Science |
| ENVS | 465 | Wetland Ecology and Management | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ENVS | 427 | Environmental and Ecological Monitoring | Analytical Approaches |
| ENVS | 429 | ELP | Area 5 or LS |
| LA | 441 | Principles of Applied Ecology | Sustain. Design and Practice |
| LA | 465 | Landscape Ecology | Natural Science (LS) |
| Department | Course # | Title | Major Area Requirement |
| BI | 307 | Forest Biology | Natural Science (LS) |
| ENVS | 335 | Allocating Scarce Environmental Resources | Policy |
| ENVS | 350 | Ecology of Energy Generation | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ENVS | 427 | Environmental and Ecological Monitoring | Analytical Approaches or LS |
| ENVS | 429 | ELP | Area 5 or LS |
| ENVS | 450 | Political Ecology | Social Science |
| ENVS | 455 | Sustainability | Social Science |
| ENVS | 465 | Wetland Ecology and Management | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 341 | Population and Environment | Social Science |
| GEOG | 360 | Watershed Science and Policy | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 461 | Environmental Alteration | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 310 | Earth Resources and Environment | Natural Science (EPS) |
| PPPM | 442 | Sustainable Urban Development | Sustain. Design & Practice |
| PPPM | 443 | Natural Resource Policy | Policy |
| PPPM | 444 | Environmental Policy | Policy |
| PPPM | 445 | Green Cities | Sustain. Design & Practice |
| Department | Course # | Title | Major Area Requirement |
| ERTH | 304 | Fossil Record | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 305 | Dinosaurs | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 311 | Earth Materials | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 331 | Mineralogy | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 332 | Intro to Petrology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 334 | Sedimentology & Stratigraphy | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 350 | Structural Geology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 425 | Geology of Ore Deposits | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 431 | Paleobotany I: Paleozoic Marine Fossils | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 433 | Paleobotany | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 434 | Vertebrate Paleontology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 435 | Paleopedology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| Department | Course # | Title | Major Area Requirement |
| ANTH | 472 | Primate Conservation Biology | Natural Sciences (LS) |
| BI | 374 | Conservation Biology | Natural Sciences (LS) |
| BI | 375 | Biological Diversity | Natural Sciences (LS) |
| BI | 442 | Systematic Botany | Natural Sciences (LS) |
| BI | 448 | Field Botany | Natural Sciences (LS) |
| BI | 471 | Population Ecology | Natural Sciences (LS) |
| ENVS | 427 | Environmental and Ecological Monitoring | Analytical Approaches or LS |
| ENVS | 429 | ELP | Area 5 |
| ENVS | 465 | Wetland Ecology and Management | Natural Sciences (EPS) |
| Department | Course # | Title | Major Area Requirement |
| ENVS | 427 | Environmental and Ecological Monitoring | Analytical Approaches or LS |
| ENVS | 429 | ELP | Area 5 or LS |
| ENVS | 465 | Wetland Ecology and Management | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 360 | Watershed Science and Policy | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 425 | Hydrology and Water Resources | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 427 | Fluvial Geomorphology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 316 | Intro to Hydrology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| ERTH | 451 | Hydrogeology | Natural Science (EPS) |
| Department | Course # | Title | Major Area Requirement |
| GEOG | 481/482/491 | GIScience I,II, Advanced | Analytical Approaches or EPS |
| GEOG | 495 | Geographic Data Analysis | Statistics |
| GEOG | 485/486 | Remote Sensing I, II | Natural Science (EPS) |
| Department | Course # | Title | Major Area Requirement |
| ENVS | 467 | Sustainable Agriculture | Sustain. Design & Practice |
| ENVS | 477 | Soil Science | Natural Science (EPS) |
| GEOG | 425 | Hydrology and Water Resources | Natural Sciences (EPS) |
| BI | 359 | Plant Biology | Natural Science (LS) |
| BI | 452 | Insect Biology | Natural Science (LS) |