Environmental Earth Sciences
Environmental Earth Sciences Curriculum
The Environmental Earth Sciences program will be available to students entering the CEEES department with sophomore status in the Fall of 2013 and future years.
The Environmental Earth Sciences program at Notre Dame was founded by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences to provide students with a quantitative preparation for professional careers or continued higher education in the disciplines of the earth and environmental science. This degree program blends the disciplines of fluid dynamics and hydrology, environmental chemistry and geochemistry framed within the larger context of Earth systems and focuses on the geology side of the environment and planetary systems. The program provides a foundation in the physical sciences, with emphasis on processes that occur near or at the surface of Earth, and the impact of human activity on such processes.
| Freshman Year: Fall | Credits | Freshman Year: Spring | Credits |
| WR 13100/Univ. Seminar | 3 | WR 13100/Univ. Seminar | 3 |
| MATH 10550: Calculus I | 4 | MATH 10560: Calculus II | 4 |
| CHEM 10121: Chemistry: Fundamental | 4 | CHEM 10122: Chemistry: Biological | 3 |
| Arts and Letters1 | 3 | PHYS 10310: General Physics I | 4 |
| EG 10111: Eng. Systems I3 | 3 | EG 10112: Eng. Systems II3 | 3 |
| Physical Education | 0 | Physical Education | 0 |
| 17 | 17 | ||
| Sophomore Year: Fall | Credits | Sophomore Year: Spring | Credits |
| MATH 20550: Calculus III | 3.5 | MATH 20580: Lin. Alg. & Diff. Eq. | 3.5 |
| PHYS 10320: General Physics II | 4 | ENVG 20300: Global Change, Water & Energy | 3 |
| CE 30300: Intro to Env. Eng w/ lab | 4 | ENVG 40230: Env. Aquatic Chemistry | 3 |
| ENVG 20111: Planet Earth | 4 | ACMS 30440: Probability & Statistics | 3 |
| CE 23601: Challenges Seminar | 0 | CE 20230: Engineering Programming | 1 |
| CE 23601: Challenges Seminar | 0 | ||
| Arts and Letters1 | 3 | ||
| 15. 5 | 16.5 | ||
| Junior Year: Fall | Credits | Junior Year: Spring | Credits |
| CE 30455: Environmental Hydrology | 3 | Core Elective | 3 |
| CE 30125: Computational Methods | 3 | ENVG 30240: Petrology of Earth Materials | 4 |
| ENVG 20200: Environmental Mineralogy | 3 | ENVG 45200: Field Trip | 1 |
| ENVG 45300: Fall Field Trip | 1 | CE 40350: Environmental Microbiology | 3 |
| ENVG 30410: Dynamic Earth | 3 | Technical Elective | 3 |
| CE 33601: Challenges Seminar | 0 | CE 33601: Challenges Seminar | 0 |
| Arts and Letters1 | 3 | Arts and Letters1 | 3 |
| 16 | 17 | ||
| Senior Year: Fall | Credits | Senior Year: Spring | Credits |
| ENVG 40340: Water-Rock Interactions | 3 | ENVG 40310: Env. Impact Res. Utilization | 3 |
| ENVG 40300: Geochemistry | 3 | Core Elective2 | 3 |
| CE 40460: Groundwater Hydrology | 4 | Core Elective2 | 3 |
| CE 43601: Challenges Seminar | 0 | Technical Elective2 | 3 |
| Arts and Letters1 | 3 | CE 43601: Challenges Seminar | 0 |
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Technical Elective2 |
3 | Arts and Letters1 | 3 |
| 16 | 15 |
Total degree required credits 130
1 Note: The University Arts and Letters requirement is 24 credit hours. This consists of: Composition and Literature (one course); University Seminar (one course); History (one course); Social Science (one course); Fine Arts or Literature (one course); Philosophy (two courses); Theology (two courses). The University Seminar may be substituted for one of (whichever is applicable): History; Social Science; Fine Arts or Literature; the first Philosophy; the first Theology.
2 Technical, Core, and Free Electives are as defined in the academic guide for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences.
3 EG10111 and EG 10112 are not required for the EES major. Other approved courses may be substituted. For approval, please contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the CEEES Dept.
