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Core – 5 Courses - Please visit http://www.ou.edu/bulletins/courses/courses.htm for course descriptions.

1. IPE—One course--IPE 1013 Consumption and the Environment

2. Biological Science—One Course from list below or as approved by advisor
BOT 1003 Contemporary Issues in Biology (crosslisted with Microbiology, Zoology 1003)
BOT 1005 Concepts in Biology (Crosslisted with Microbiology, Zoology 1005)
BOT 1114 General Botany
BOT 2404 Ecology and Environmental Quality (Crosslisted with Zoology 2404)
MBIO 2815 Introduction to Microbiology
ZOO 1114 Introductory Zoology.

3. Physical Science—One course from list below or as approved by advisor
CHEM 1315 General Chemistry
GEOG 1114 Physical Geography
GEOG 1013 Global Environmental Change
GEOG 1024 The History of the Earth and Life
GEOL 1104 The Dynamic Earth (Geology for Non-Science Majors)
GEOL 1114 Physical Geology for Science and Engineering Majors
GEOS 2004 Evolution of the Earth System
GEOS 2014 The Earth System
METR 1014 Introduction to Weather and Climate
PHY 1114 General Physics for Non-Science Majors

4. Research methods--One course from list below or as approved by advisor. Note that there may be prerequisites which will need to be fulfilled.
ECON 2843 Elements of Statistics
COM 2513 Introduction to Statistics
COM 3023 Communication Research Methods
COM 3113 Communication Research Procedures
GEOG 3924 Analytic Methods in Geography
NAS 3863 Research Methods in Native American Studies
PSC 2013 Introduction to Political Analysis.
PSY 2003 Understanding Statistics.
PSY 2113 Research Methods I: Statistics
SOC 3123 Social Statistics
SOC 3133 Methods of Social Research
WS 4003 Method and Theory in Women's Studies.

5. Capstone—One course--May choose from any Arts and Sciences capstones or independent study approved by PACGEO.

Breadth – 9 Courses--3 courses from each of the following categories or as approved by adviser. (Course list is not exhaustive. Other course opportunities may present themselves.)

Humanities
HIST 3493 American Environmental History
PHIL 3293 Environmental Ethics
HSCI 3013 History of Science to the Age of Newton
HSCI 3473 History of Ecology and Environmentalism
HSCI 3023 The History of Science Since the Seventeenth Century
HSCI 3433 Science, Technology, and Politics: International Perspectives.
NAS 3113 Native American Philosophy
PHIL 3273 Ethics and Business
PHIL 3283 Religion and the Environment
PHIL 3613 Philosophy of Biology
PHIL 3633 The Nature of Science
PHIL 4613 Philosophy of Science

Natural Sciences
(May use courses from the Biological and Physical sciences lists in the core if not taken for core credit.)
BOT 3163 Economic Botany
BOT 3453 Principals of Plant Ecology + 3452 Methods of Plant Ecology
BOT 3534 Flowering Plants
BOT 4553 Plant Geography
GEOG 3023 Principles of Physical Geography
GEOG 4133 Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
GEOG 4203 Geomorphology
GEOG 4273 Regional Climatology
GEOG 4283 Biogeography
GEOG 4293 Hydrologic Science
GEOG 4314 Soils
GEOG 4343 Climate, History, and Society
GEOG 4443 Urban Ecology
GEOL 3154 Environmental Geology
ZOO 3403 Principles of Ecology

Social Sciences
ANTH 1613 Indian Peoples of Oklahoma
ANTH 1913 Plagues & People: Health & Disease in Human Society
ANTH 2613 Native Peoples of North America
ANTH 4103 People and Plants
ANTH 4143 Economy and Culture: Production, Exchange, Consumption
ANTH 4533 Human Ecology and the Humid Tropics
ECON 3213 Environmental Economics
GEOG 1213 Economic Geography
GEOG 2113 Introduction to the City (Cross-listed with Regional and City Planning 2113)
GEOG 2603 World Regional Geography
GEOG 3203 Globalization and the Environment
GEOG 3243 Principles of Economic Geography
GEOG 3253 Environmental Conservation
GEOG 3563 Geography of Natural Resources
GEOG 4003 The Global City and Planning Issues
GEOG 4563 American Indian Geographies
P SC 3233 Environmental Policy and Administration
P SC 4233 Science, Technology, and Public Policy

Major Support - 6 Courses
The student works with the advisor to identify several areas of interest and courses that would be appropriate for those interest areas.
Courses from the Breadth list above may be used if not used for major credit. Below is an example from a recent Planned Program major who identified three areas of interest and will select two courses from each area of interest.

Ethics, Communication, and Argumentation
COM 1113 Principles of Communication
COM 2613 Public Speaking
COM 3253 Persuasion Principles
COM 3483 Communication and Argumentation
PHIL 3113 Reasoning Judgment and Decision Making
PHIL 3283 Religion and the Environment
PHIL 3293 Environmental Ethics
PHIL 3533 Language, Communication and Knowledge
PHIL 3900 Special Topics
MIS 2113 Computer-Based Information Systems

Science and Policy
ES 5253 Environmental Administration and Law
PSC 3233 Environmental Policy and Administration
PSC 4233 Science, Technology, and Public Policy
RCPL 5813 Environmental Planning Methods

Economics, Management, and Business
GEOG 1213 Economic Geography
ECON 1113 Principles of Economics-Macro
ECON 1123 Principles of Economics-Micro
ECON 3213 Environmental Economics
ACCT 2123 Managerial Accounting
MKT 3323 Purchasing and Buying Behavior
ES 4463 Environmental Evaluation and Management
ES 5913 Risk Assessment and Management
ES 5943 Air Quality Management

Please visit http://www.ou.edu/bulletins/courses/courses.htm for course descriptions.