Natural Resources and Environmental Science: Watershed Management Concentration, BS

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Courses (34 credits)

Other Departmental/Program Course Requirements (70-74 credits)

• AGEC 40600 - Natural Resource And Environmental Economics ♦
• AGR 10100 - Introduction To The College Of Agriculture And Purdue University
• AGR 12200 - Introduction To Natural Resources And Environmental Science Academic Programs
• AGRY 33800 - Environmental Hydrology Laboratory

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• BIOL 11000 - Fundamentals Of Biology I ♦ or
• BTNY 12000 - Principles Of Plant Biology I ♦

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• BIOL 11100 - Fundamentals Of Biology II ♦ or
• BTNY 12100 - Principles Of Plant Biology II ♦

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• BIOL 28600 - Introduction To Ecology And Evolution ♦
• CHM 11100 - General Chemistry ♦ (satisfies Science #1 for core)
• CHM 11200 - General Chemistry ♦ (satisfies Science #2 for core)

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• CHM 25500 - Organic Chemistry ♦ or
• CHM 25700 - Organic Chemistry ♦

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• FNR 37500 - Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management ♦ or
• SOC 34400 - Environmental Sociology ♦

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• FNR 22310 - Introduction To Environmental Policy or
• POL 22300 - Introduction To Environmental Policy

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• MA 16010 - Applied Calculus I (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core)
• STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods (satisfies Information Literacy for core)

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• Written Communication Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00-4.00 (satisfies Written Communication for core)

• ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition ♦ or
• ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition ♦ or
• HONR 19903 - Interdisciplinary Approaches In Writing ♦

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• Oral Communication Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Oral Communication for core)

• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication ♦ or
• COM 21700 - Science Writing And Presentation ♦ or
• EDPS 31500 - Collaborative Leadership: Interpersonal Skills ♦

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• Microeconomics Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Human Culture Behavioral/Social Science for core)

• AGEC 20300 - Introductory Microeconomics For Food And Agribusiness or
• AGEC 20400 - Introduction To Resource Economics And Environmental Policy or
• ECON 25100 - Microeconomics

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• Science Communication Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00

• ASEC 58500 - Science Communication or
• ENGL 42000 - Business Writing or
• ENGL 42100 - Technical Writing or
• ENTM 20100 - Scientific And Technical Communication

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• Additional Mathematics or Statistics Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Broadening Science Selective - Credit Hours:1.00-3.00
• Data Science Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Social Sciences Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Human Cultures: Humanities Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Human Cultures: Humanities for core)
• Humanities or Social Sciences Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Humanities or Social Sciences Selective (30000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Written or Oral Communication Selective (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

Electives (12-16 credits)

• Electives - Credit Hours: 12.00-16.00

College of Agriculture & University Level Requirements

• 2.00 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
• 32 Upper division credits taken from Purdue
• College of Agriculture International Understanding Selective   - Credit Hours: 9.00
• College of Agriculture Multicultural Awareness Selective   - Credit Hours: 3.00
• College of Agriculture Humanities or Social Science Selectives    (30000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

• Humanities or Social Science Selectives   (Choose from outside the College of Agriculture) - Credit Hours: 9.00
• College of Agriculture Written or Oral Communication Selectives   (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

University Core Requirements

For a complete listing of University Core Course Selectives, visit the Provost’s Website.

• Human Cultures: Behavioral/Social Science (BSS)
• Human Cultures: Humanities (HUM)
• Information Literacy (IL)
• Oral Communication (OC)
• Quantitative Reasoning (QR)
• Science #1 (SCI)
• Science #2 (SCI)
• Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
• Written Communication (WC)

Program Requirements

Notes

• 2.0 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
• Consultation with an advisor may result in an altered plan customized for an individual student.

World Language Courses

World Language proficiency requirements vary by program. The following list is inclusive of all world languages PWL offers for credit; for acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor.

ASL-American Sign Language	ARAB-Arabic	CHNS-Chinese	FR-French
GER-German	GREK-Greek (ancient)	HEBR-Hebrew (Biblical)	HEBR-Hebrew (modern)
ITAL-Italian	JPNS-Japanese	KOR-Korean	LATN-Latin
PTGS-Portuguese	RUSS-Russian	SPAN-Spanish

Critical Course

The ♦ course is considered critical.

In alignment with the Degree Map Guidance for Indiana’s Public Colleges and Universities, published by the Commission for Higher Education (pursuant to HEA 1348-2013), a Critical Course is identified as “one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.  Students who want to be nurses, for example, should know that they are expected to be proficient in courses like biology in order to be successful.  These would be identified by the institutions for each degree program”. 

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