Environmental Sciences Graduate Program

Master of Science with Major in Environmental Sciences

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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UNIVERSITY CATALOG | COURSE SCHEDULE | FAU GRADUATE APPLICATION

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 a cumulative score of 1000 on the Verbal and Quantitative portions of the GRE prior to Oct 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 or Dianne Owen at envirosci@fau.edu or go to the departmental web pages to examine the fields and interests of individual faculty. When you find a faculty member in your field of interest, contact them directly.

Thesis Option

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 toward the degree, and no more than 6 credits may be 4000-level courses. No more than 3 credits of Directed Independent Study may be counted toward this degree.
ES Thesis: 6-12 credits (EVS 6971).
ES Colloquium: 2 credits or more

A student curriculum consists of a minimum of 36 credits taken in the following three categories:

Core Subject Areas: A minimum of 22 credits from the core subject areas, with at least one course from four different core subject areas

Electives and Directed Independent Study:No more than 6 credits of electives taken outside the core areas will be counted toward the degree. Directed Independent Study: 3 credits (EVS 6905).

ES 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 Advanced 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 6120   Topics in Geoinformation Science