This is an interdisciplinary program designed to provide students with specialized training in Environmental Sciences. All the departments in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters participate in the program, as do several other colleges at Florida Atlantic University.
Students are required to take most of the coursework spread across the six core subject areas listed below. The exact courses taken are to be determined by students and their advisory committees. The application deadlines are March 15 for the fall semester and October 1 for the spring semester.
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Admission will be based upon academic record (B or better average on the last 60 hours of undergraduate credits or established graduate level proficiency), two letters of recommendation, and and minimum GRE scores of 151 Verbal and 148 Quantitative (or 460 Verbal and 590 Quantitative for scores prior to October 2011).
Potential students must have a "sponsor" from within Florida Atlantic University, who will then act as the student’s advisor until a thesis topic has been chosen.
For sponsor selection suggestions, contact Program Coordinator Cynthia Berman at envirosci@fau.edu or go to the departmental web pages to examine the fields and interests of individual faculty. When a faculty member who is in a field of interest is found, contact them directly.
A student curriculum consists of a minimum of 36 credits taken in the following four categories:
Core Subject Areas: 22-28 credits from the core subject areas and electives with at least one course from four different core subject areas
Electives: No more than 9 credits of electives taken outside the core areas will be counted towards the degree, and no more than 6 credits may be 4000 level courses. No more than three credits of Directed Independent Study may be counted towards this degree
Thesis: 6-12credits
Colloquium 2 credits or more
A student curriculum consists of a minimum of 36 credits taken in the following three categories:
Core Subject Areas: 34 credits from the core subject areas and electives with at least one course from four different core subject areas
Electives and Directed Independent Studies: No more than 9 credits of electives taken outside the core areas will be counted towards the degree, only 6 credits may be 4000 level courses.
You must complete 3 credits of Directed Independent Study on a research project chosen in consultation with your advisor.
Colloquium: 2 credits or more
Colloquium
EVS 6920 Environmental Sciences Colloquium Series (1 credit, may be taken more than once)
Chemistry
CHS 6611 Chemistry For Environmental Scientists
GLY 5243 Environmental Geochemistry
Geographic Information Science
URP 6270 Introduction to GIS in Planning GIS 5051C Principles of Geographic Information Systems GIS 5100C Applications In Geographic Information Systems GIS 5103C Programming In Geographic Information Systems GIS 5038C Remote Sensing Of The Environment GIS 5033C Digital Image Analysis GIS 6039 Advanced Remote Sensing GIS 6127 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing GIS 6114 Internet GIS GIS 6120 Topics in Geoinformation Science
Modeling
GLY 6826 Optimization Applications In Groundwater GLY 6827C Advanced Hydrogeology GLY 6828 Groundwater Solute Transport Modeling GLY 6836 Modeling Groundwater Movement
EVR 6070 Ecological Modeling
Statistics
PCB 6456 Experimental Design and Biometry
STA 6206 Statistical Methods For Environmental Sciences
Conservation And Ecology
GEO 6318 Plants And People GEO 5305 Biogeography
EVR 6334 Environmental Restoration BOT 5155 Flora of South Florida
BOT 5155L Flora of South Florida Lab BOT 6606 Coastal Plant Ecology BOT 6606L Coastal Plant Ecology Lab PCB 6045 Conservation Biology PCB 6046 Advanced Ecology PCB 6317 Marine Ecology PCB 6317L Marine Ecology Lab And Field Studies ENC 6258 Scientific Communication PCB 6307 Freshwater Ecology PCB 6307L Freshwater Ecology Lab BSC 6365 Symbiosis BSC 6534 Seminar in Avian Ecology PCB 6749C Environmental Physiology
GLY 5736C Marine Geology GLY 5934 Advanced Topics In Applied, Coastal And Hydrogeology GLY 6707 Regolith Geology GLY 6737 Coastal Environments GLY 5575C Shore Erosion And Protection GLY 6746 Global Environmental Change GLY 6889 Environmental Geosphysics
ZOO 6459 Seminar In Ichthyology ZOO 6495 Seminar In Ichthyology ZOO 6495 Graduate Ecology Seminar ZOO 6256 Marine Invertebrate Zoology ZOOl6256 Marine Invertebrate Zoology Lab ZOO 6456 Natural History Of Fishes ZOO 6456L Natural History Of Fishes Lab ZOO 6544 Seminar In Avian Ecology
Policy And Planning
GEA 6277 Human-Environmental Interactions GEO 6337 Culture, Conservation And Land Use GEO 5435C Geographic Analysis Of Population GLY 6888 Coastal Hazards
URP 6711 Introduction to Transportation Planning URP 6421 Environmental Planning And Society URP 6425 Environmental Analysis In Planning URP 6429 Environmental Policy And Programs URP 4402 Sustainable Cities URP 6840 Urban And Regional Theory
WST 6348 Women, Environment, Cofeminism, Environmental Justice
PHM 6035 Environmental Philosophy
