SEES Courses

Spring 2025 Courses in SEES

Survey
Geol 12 Natural Disasters (Shalkowski)
Geol 16 Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Moving Cont. (2 sections; 1 SEEK; Soule)
Geol 25 Natural Resources (2 sections; Eaton)
Geol 77 Weather, Climate, and Climate Change (Yi)
Ensci 99 A Practical Guide to Environmental Choices (2 sections; Ramadhin)

Introductory
Ensci 100 Our Planet In the 21st Century (2 sections; O’Mullan in person, Stewart –
online lecture; Saturday: Williams)
Geol 101 Introduction to Planet Earth (2 sections; Laczniak; Saturday: Cortese)
Ensci 112 Our Changing Planet (Blanford)
Geol 102* History of Earth and Life (Pekar)

ENSCI/ENSTUD Core
Ensci 200* Earth Systems Science (Bird)

Urbst 230* Introduction to Public Health (Barron)

ENSCI/ENSTUD Advanced
Ensci 377 Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions (Yi)
Geol 383* Tectonic Geomorphology (Val)
Geol 363* GIS in the Geosciences (Lesnek)

Ensci 383* Urban Stormwater and Climate Resiliency (Balci)
Ensci 383* Philosophy of the Natural Sciences (O’laughlin)
Ensci 397** Internship in Environmental Science (Bird)

ENSCI/ENSTUD Capstone:
Ensci 373W* Environmental Problem Solving (Greenfield)

Core/Advanced/BS elective major courses
Biol 201 General Microbiology (TBD;)
Biol 340 General Ecology (Waldman;)
Geol 200 Methods in Geoscience (Longpré)

GEOL required courses (not usable for Ensci or Environ. Studies majors or minors)
Geol 201 Minerals and Crystals (Longpré)

Geol 361* Field Geology (Val)

* Geol/Ensci 383 classes (special topics) are registration by permission of instructor or the academic advisor in SEES. Note: Environmental Studies 383 is not permitted to be used for any major or minor requirements in SEES.

**Ensci 395, 396 or 397, Internship in Environmental Science, requires completion and approval of an application that is due 45 days prior to beginning the internship. The application is available from Professor Bird.

Note: For requirements for Environmental Science, Environmental Studies or Geology majors or minors – please consult the major advisor and the SEES website.

Note: the following courses have new titles, but the content remains the same in Spring 2025. The revised courses and major and minor will start in Fall 2025. Student enrolled before Fall 2025 may chose the current Geology major or the revised.

GEOL 101 – Introduction to Planet Earth
GEOL 102 – History of Earth and Life
GEOL 201 – Minerals and Crystals
GEOL 212W – Sediment Rocks, Fossils and Strata has replaced GEOL 313W.

For more information please contact:
Drs. Bird and Ramadhin @ envadv@qc.cuny.edu Environmental Science and Environmental Studies majors and minors
Dr. Dara Laczniak dara.laczniak@qc.cuny.edu for Geology major and minors

Graduate Courses
Graduate-level courses (graduate classes are permission only)
Geol 766 Analytical Methods (Bracco)
Geol 763 Geographical Information Systems (Lesnek)
Ensci 799.3 Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions (Yi)
Geol 799.3 Tectonic Geomorphology (Val)

Ensci 799.3 Urban Stormwater and Climate Resiliency (Balci)
Geol 799.1 Colloquium (Soule)

(Last Updated January 21st 2025)