The ESS curriculum includes four areas. First, there is the ESS Core which consists of five core courses (16 credit hours), including academic credit for a required internship. Second, it requires Foundation courses (37-39 credit hours) in math, physics, chemistry, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and biogeochemistry. Third, courses are required by the Concentration (up to 50 hours). And fourth, some of the requirements of the University Studies Program are met with a combination of new and existing ESS Core, Foundation, and Concentration courses.

Links to the course names and descriptions:

• ESS Core
• Foundation Courses
• Concentration Courses:
  • Anthropology
  • Biology^(*)
  • Botany^(*)
  • Geography
  • Geology & Geophysics
  • Soil Science
  • Secondary Education^(*) (ESSE; Earth Science Education with concurrent major in ESS)

(*) The Botany concentration is being eliminated due to changes in the Botany curriculum. The Biology concentration is being revised, and the ESSE curriculum is being revised.