Tackle the world’s most pressing environmental problems with a major in 环境化学.
Major Roadmap
探索您的选项 环境化学 Major Guide — classes, internships, research and study abroad. 找到你感兴趣的, 发现你的所爱, and create a major experience that jumpstarts your future.
You’ll learn the impact that chemical substances have on the earth’s ecosystems by building your knowledge of both chemistry and environmental science. Get ready to confront climate change, find ways to clean up air and water pollution, and respond to environmental disasters. Or figure out solutions to problems related to energy, waste and recycling.
You’ll join a student-faculty research group for at least two semesters, where you’ll learn the process of research from beginning to end. Apply your knowledge in the state-of-the-art labs of the John Brooks Williams Natural Sciences Center. Graduate with a solid understanding of the science — and the connections between the environment, 经济与政策.
You’ll leave St. 爱德华已经准备好改变世界了.
我们的毕业生做什么?
环境化学 majors go on to a variety of careers and graduate schools from St. Edward’s. Here’s a sample.
- Geochemist and risk assessment officer at Tetra Tech, a consulting and engineering company
- 德州大学硕士生&M
- 德保罗大学博士候选人
- PhD candidate at the University of North Texas
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St. Edward’s is the No. 8 Best Regional University in the West in the 2020 U.S. News & 世界大学排名. In honor of our ranking, we share the 成为山顶者的主要原因.
课堂内外
我们强调体验式学习, so students majoring in 环境化学 enroll in at least two semesters of research courses and join a student-faculty research group with the goal of producing and presenting professional-level work.
Degree Requirements
Major Requirements: The Bachelor of Science in 环境化学 requires 78 to 79 hours of major courses, which include a combination of environmental science, chemistry, philosophy, biology, math, and physics.
通识教育要求: In addition to the major program requirements, all students must satisfy the 通识教育要求. Talk with your success coach and faculty advisor about which courses are right for you.
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A few examples of courses students in this major take:
- 环境政治与政策 – Explore new demands worldwide for dealing with the risks of climate change, population growth, loss of biological diversity and terrorism, which will force governments everywhere to rethink policy strategies and find new ways to reconcile environmental and economic goals.
- Environmental Ethics – Explore moral concerns and ethical decision making with regard to the environment. 主题包括个人, corporate and state freedoms and responsibilities, 动物的允许用途, and comparison of strategies for protecting natural resources, as well as case studies regarding equity, justice, and individual and community rights to environmental resources.
- Biochemistry – Survey of the fundamentals of biochemistry. Topics include structure of proteins, 脂质和碳水化合物, catalysis, kinetics, 生物能量学和新陈代谢, 信息途径.
Internships
Our internship program acquaints students with practical experience. Our students have recently interned with:
- Tetra Tech
- Texas Commission on Environmental Quality