Environmental Sciences
The Environmental Science Program provides a broad understanding of how physical, biological and human components of the environment interact to prepare students to become environmental professionals. We stress a multidisciplinary approach that enables students to follow their interests and select elective courses in our, or in other programs at Stockton. Each senior student completes a research project or works as an intern with an environmental organization to gain more practical experience and to integrate his or her academic work with a real world experience. Our courses emphasize fieldwork and other practical experiences, we encourage close work with our full time faculty, and we provide the latest technology to train students to step into an environmentally related career and to help them achieve the goal of becoming professionals and lifelong learners.
Students can concentrate in one of the following areas or select courses from several to tailor their interests to our offerings.
Ecology, Forestry, and Wildlife Management, including courses such as Wildlife Management, Ecological Forest Management, Wetlands Management, Ornithology, Population Biology, Entomology, and Dendrology.
Water and Soil Resources, including courses such as Soil Science, Watershed Hydrology, Groundwater Hydrology, Geomorphology.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including courses such as GIS, Advanced GIS, Geotabase Systems, GPS for GIS, Spatial Statistics.
Pollution Remediation and Environmental Chemistry, including courses such as Pollution and Regulation, Environmental Chemistry, Biotechnology and Remediation.
Sustainability - Students take a combination of courses in Environmental Science and Political Science. ENVL courses include Environmental Planning, Sustainability -Food and Agriculture, Sustainability-Water Resources.
Environmental and Regional Planning - courses include Intro to Planning, Energy Planning, Environmental Planning and Regional Planning.
Students can also combine courses in Environmental Science with Education, Anthro
pology, Economics and other fields outside the natural sciences to create their own concentrations.
- Qualified students can move into Stockton’s Professional Science Masters and complete a Bachelor of Science and a Masters Degree in our 4 + 1 Dual Degree Program.
- Many graduates work in the environmental field, where some have risen to leadership positions or have started their own consulting companies. Still others have graduated from Stockton to attend graduate schools where they frequently earn research and teaching assistantships that underwrite their graduate education.
All ENVL majors take the following Program courses in the freshman and sophomore years
- Introduction to Environmental Science
- Physical Geography and Lab
- Ecological Principles and Lab
- Statistics and Computers
During the same years, all ENVL majors also take
- Biodiversity and Evolution (BIOL Program)
- Chemistry I—BS students also take a second semester of Chemistry
- Pre calculus—BS students also take either Calculus I (MATH) or Introduction to Computational Science (Computational Science Program)
- One of the following courses: Introduction to Geology and Lab or an Introductory Physics course with Lab—BA students may substitute an Introductory Economics course
During their junior and senior years ENVL majors take upper level courses in the Program.
Students may either specialize by taking courses in one area of Environmental Science, or they may take courses from several of these areas. These include:
- Ecology, Forestry, and Wildlife Management, including courses such as Wildlife Management, Ecological Forest Management, Wetlands Management, Ornithology, Population Biology, Entomology, and Dendrology
- Water and Soil Resources, including courses such as Soil Science, Watershed Hydrology, Groundwater Hydrology, Geomorphology
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including courses such as GIS, Advanced GIS, Geodatabase Systems, GPS for GIS, Spatial Statistics
- Pollution Remediation and Environmental Chemistry, including courses such as Pollution and Regulation, Environmental Chemistry, Biotechnology and Remediation
- Sustainability—Students take a combination of courses in Environmental Science and Political Science. ENVL courses include Environmental Planning, Sustainability-Food and Agriculture, Sustainability-Water Resources
- Environmental and Regional Planning - courses include Intro to Planning, Environmental Planning, Energy Planning, and Growth Management
Juniors and Seniors can also take courses in related programs such as Marine Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics (including Energy Planning and Management), Political Science, and Public Health.
Students must also
- Complete a Research Senior Project or an Internship that involves doing environmentally related work for a governmental agency, or consulting or other company, or a non governmental agency.
- Take a senior level Environmental Issues Course
- Attend the Environmental Seminar for at least one semester.
- Complete the College’s requirements in general education (BS 48 credits, BA 64 credits)
For more information contact:
George Zimmermann, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Studies
Program Coordinator of Environmental Science
George.Zimmermann@stockton.edu
(609) 652-4308
