BSc (Hons) Environmental Sciences
Environmental Sciences are concerned with the impact of human activity on the quality of earth’s life support systems for humans and other forms of life. The world is facing a number of interconnected environmental and resource problems whose root cause(s) need to be understood, remedies defined, explained to society and implemented both at local, national and global level to preserve the earth and its environments for sustainable living. Environmental Science spans many disciplines of human knowledge, multiple branches and many variations of Environmental Science programs exist in leading universities and colleges in the world depending upon the core competencies of the institutions on the one hand and the local and national needs on the other hand. This program aims at identifying the environmental problems (and their causes) and proposing the guidelines for conservation, restoration and sustainability of the environments to meet local and national needs.
The Environmental Science program aims to develop
- Appropriate knowledge base to comprehend environment and its interrelationship with life and earth.
- Sound understanding of physical and chemical processes as well as Planetary Metabolism leading to climate change.
- Technical skills necessary for identifying, probing, analyzing and mitigating environmental problems especially at local and regional level.
- Positive attitudes and sensitivity towards local and global environmental issues and willingness to participate in the efforts to protect and conserve our environments and nature.
- Informed and productive members of the society ready to accept responsibilities in the job market.
Faculty Research Areas in Environmental Sciences
Environmental Sciences offers two concentrations
- Biological Sciences
- Physical Sciences
Students should take a minimum of 29 Core credit hours and a minimum of 19 elective credit hours in their chosen area of concentration.
Stat, Math, Biol, Chem and Phys at Intermediate/A-level are prerequisite.
Those who have not studied Biology at higher secondary or A-level or equivalent must take BIOL 104.
Those who have not studied Math at higher secondary or A-level or equivalent must take MATH 101.
Those who have not studied Chemistry at higher secondary or A-level or equivalent must take CHEM 100.
Those who have not studied Physics at higher secondary or A-level or equivalent must take PHYS 100.
Those who have not studied Statistics at higher secondary or A-level or equivalent must take STAT 101 or 102.
Core courses include
BIOL 202: Diversity in Plants (4 credits)
BIOL 205: Biostatistics (3 credits)
BIOL 302: Animal Form and Function (4 credits)
BIOL 303: General Ecology (3 credits)
CHEM 114: Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry (3+1 credits)
PHYS 101: General Physics I (4 credits)/PHYS 102: General Physics II (4 credits)
GEOG 210: Earth’s Physical Realms (3 credits)