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Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

Environmental Geosciences P.S.M. (Professional Science Master's)

Program Overview

College of Natural and Health Sciences

General Master's Degree Admission Requirements

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Location: Ross Hall 3235

Telephone: 970.351.2647

Fax: 970.351.4197

Website: www.unco.edu/nhs/earth-atmospheric-sciences/

The Environmental Geosciences Professional Science Master's (P.S.M.) degree program is certified by the Council of Graduate Schools; it operates under guidelines of the P.S.M. National Office. Those guidelines specify that at least half of the credits must be in science content; in addition, Professional Skills courses and a Professional Internship must be completed. The multidisciplinary structure of the department affords each student the opportunity to develop a sequence of courses that complements and builds upon their previous education and experience, whether in the earth sciences or a wide variety of other science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or other fields.

Degree Requirements — 30 Credits

Graduate Communications Course (3 credits)

Choose one of the following:

COMM 514Interpersonal Communication

3

COMM 515Group Communication

3

COMM 541Courtroom Communication

3

COMM 553Professional Speaking

3

COMM 610Communication & Technology

3

Other Professional Skills Course (3 credits)

Choose one of the following:

BAAC 527Governmental and Institutional Accounting

3

CH 550Environmental Health

3

ELPS 601Leadership Development Through Inquiry

3

INTR 560Ethics in Leadership

3

Required Credits — 7 hours

ESCI 599Seminar in Earth Sciences

1

ESCI 600Introduction to Earth Science Research

2

ESCI 692Earth Science Internship

1-15

ESCI 599: must be taken twice for a total of 2 credits

ESCI 692: Take 3 credits

Required Earth Sciences Content Courses — 14 credits

14 credits of graduate-level earth sciences content from prefixes ESCI, GEOL, MET, or OCN at least 6 credits of which must be selected from:

ESCI 572Industrial Safety

3

ESCI 605Global Change

3

GEOL 510Groundwater Geology

3

GEOL 515Ore Geology

3

GEOL 583Soils

3

GEOL 586Petroleum and Energy

3

MET 552Paleoclimatology

3

Required Professional Skills Courses — 6 credits

Required STEM Content Courses — 3 credits

Choose one the following:

GEOG 507Geographic Information Science

3

MATH 550Applied Probability and Statistics

3

SRM 502Applied Statistics

3

Program Notes

  1. ESCI 599, a one-credit hour course, must be taken twice for a total of two credits.
  2. ESCI 600 should be taken the first Fall semester of attendance.
  3. A 3.0 GPA in the courses taken as part of this major is required for graduation. A "C" or higher is required for all courses taken as part of the program.
  4. At least two-thirds of a student's master's degree program must be in courses that are not double-numbered courses or in courses that have been taught solely as 500-level or above graduate courses.

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