Environmental Science: Natural Resources, BSAG
Requirements for Students Matriculating in or before Academic Year 2025-2026. Learn more about University Academic Regulation 3.1.
Minimum Overall Grade Point Average: 2.00
Total Hours: 124
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| General Education Requirements | ||
| English Composition | ||
| See Academic Regulation 3.5 | ||
| ENGL 1113 | Composition I | 3 |
| or ENGL 1313 | Critical Analysis and Writing I | |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Composition II | ||
| Critical Analysis and Writing II | ||
| Technical Writing | ||
| American History & Government | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Survey of American History | ||
| American History to 1865 (H) | ||
| American History Since 1865 (DH) | ||
| POLS 1113 | American Government | 3 |
| Quantitative Thought & Logical Reasoning (Q) | ||
| STAT 2013 | Elementary Statistics (Q) 1 | 3 |
| Understanding Humanities-Human Heritage & Cultures (H) | ||
| Courses designated (H) | 3 | |
| Courses designated (DH) | 3 | |
| Reasoning in the Natural Sciences (N) | ||
| Must include one Laboratory-Based Inquiry (L) course | ||
| Select four hours from the following: | 4 | |
| Introductory Biology (N) and Introductory Biology Laboratory (LN) 1 | ||
| Introductory Biology (LN) 1 | ||
| Course designated (N) | 2 | |
| Exploring Society & Human Behavior (S) | ||
| AGEC 1113 | Introduction to Agricultural Economics (S) 1 | 3 |
| AGCM 3203 | Oral Communications in Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources (S) 1 | 3 |
| or SPCH 2713 | Introduction to Speech Communication (S) | |
| Diversity (D) | ||
| May be paired with another designated course | ||
| Global Cultural Competency (G) | ||
| Courses designated (G) | 3 | |
| Additional General Education | ||
| Additional general education credit hours (at least 4 hours) are required to meet the total 40-hour minimum. If courses carry more than one general education designation and can be used to meet multiple minimum general education designation hours above, more than 4 hours of additional general education will be required here to meet the 40-hour minimum. | ||
| Courses designated (Q), (H), (N), (S), (D), (G), or (F). | 4 | |
| Hours Subtotal | 40 | |
| College/Departmental Requirements | ||
| UNIV 1111 | First Year Seminar (or other approved first year seminar course) 3 | 1 |
| ENVR 1113 | Elements of Environmental Science (N) 3 | 3 |
| SOIL 2124 | Fundamentals of Soil Science (N) 3 | 4 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Written Communication 3 | ||
| Written Communications in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources 3 | ||
| Technical Writing 2,3 | ||
| CHEM 1314 | Chemistry I (LN) 1,3 | 4 |
| or CHEM 1215 | Chemical Principles I (LN) | |
| MATH 1513 | College Algebra (Q) | 3 |
| CHEM 1515 | Chemistry II (LN) 1,3 | 5 |
| or CHEM 1225 | Chemical Principles II (LN) | |
| Hours Subtotal | 23 | |
| Major Requirements | ||
| ENVR 3101 | Career Development in Environmental Sciences 3 | 1 |
| ENVR 3113 | Environmental Sampling and Analysis 3 | 3 |
| ENVR 4113 | Advanced Environmental Sampling and Analysis | 3 |
| ENVR 4010 | Internships in Environmental Science 3 | 1 |
| ENVR 4363 | Environmental Soil Science 3 | 3 |
| ENVR 4512 | Introduction to National Environmental Policy Act 3 | 2 |
| ENVR 4513 | Nature-Based Solutions | 3 |
| ENVR 4811 | Capstone Project Planning 3 | 1 |
| ENVR 4813 | Environmental Science Capstone 3 | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Geospatial Technologies for Natural Resources 3 | ||
| Digital Tools for Environmental Problem-Solving (LN) 3 | ||
| Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems 3 | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Environmental Law for Agriculture and Natural Resources 3 | ||
| Natural Resource Administration and Policy 3 | ||
| Environmental Law And Policy 3 | ||
| Environmental Sociology (S) 3 | ||
| CHEM 3013 | Survey of Organic Chemistry 3 | 3 |
| or BIOC 2344 | Chemistry and Applications of Biomolecules | |
| BIOL 3034 | General Ecology 3 | 4 |
| PBIO 1404 | Plant Biology (LN) | 4 |
| BIOL 1604 | Animal Biology | 4 |
| GEOL 1114 | Physical Geology (LN) | 4 |
| PHYS 1114 | College Physics I (LN) | 4 |
| MATH 2144 | Calculus I (Q) | 3 |
| or STAT 4013 | Statistical Methods I (Q) | |
| Related Courses | ||
| Select 9 hours of the following: | 9 | |
| Natural Resource Economics | ||
| Issues Management and Crisis Communications in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Environmental Biology | ||
| Principles of Toxicology | ||
| Introduction to Entomology (LN) | ||
| Ecology of Invasive Species | ||
| Environmental Science Problems | ||
| Environmental Soil Chemistry | ||
| Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future | ||
| Environmental Geology (N) | ||
| Introduction to Microbiology | ||
| Introduction to Microbiology Laboratory | ||
| Forest Biology | ||
| Watershed Hydrology and Water Quality | ||
| Environment and Society (N) | ||
| Field Botany | ||
| Plant-Environment Interactions | ||
| Natural Resources and Environmental Policy | ||
| Environmental Inequality (S) | ||
| Soil Genesis, Morphology, and Classification | ||
| Soil and Water Conservation | ||
| Soil Microbiology | ||
| Soil, Water, and Weather | ||
| Hours Subtotal | 61 | |
| Electives | ||
| Select 0 hours or hours to complete required total for degree | 0 | |
| Total Hours | 124 | |
- 1
College & Departmental or Major requirements that may be used to meet General Education requirements.
- 2
If ENGL 3323 Technical Writing is used to satisfy ENGL 1213 Composition II above then hours in this block are 0.
- 3
Hours meeting the Major common core.
Other Requirements
- A minimum of 40 semester credit hours and 100 grade points must be earned in courses numbered 3000 or above.
- A 2.00 GPA or higher in upper-division hours.
Additional State/OSU Requirements
- At least: 60 hours at a four-year institution; 30 hours completed at OSU; 15 of the final 30 and 50% of the upper-division hours in the major field completed at OSU.
- Limit of: one-half of major course requirements as transfer work; one-fourth of hours earned by correspondence; 8 transfer correspondence hours.
- Students will be held responsible for degree requirements in effect at the time of matriculation and any changes that are made, so long as these changes do not result in semester credit hours being added or do not delay graduation.
- Degrees that follow this plan must be completed by the end of Summer 2031.