Foundation & Breadth

• BIO 81 or BIO 47H or HUMBIO 2A & 2B or EARTHSYS 116
• CHEM 31A & 31B or 31X
• ECON 1
• GS 1 or GS 4 or EARTHSYS 117 or EARTHSYS 128
• MATH 19, 20, 21 
• MATH 51 or CME 100
• PHYSICS 41 or PHYSICS 45 or GEOPHYS 110
• Statistics: BIO 174H or BIO 202 or ECON 102A or STATS 101 or STATS 110 or 116 or 141
• EARTHSYS 10
• EARTHSYS 111 
• EARTHSYS 112
• EARTHSYS 210A, B, or C (Senior Capstone & Reflection)
• EARTHSYS 210P (Capstone Project)
• EARTHSYS 260 (Internship)
• WIM: EARTHSYS 200, EARTHSYS 191, EARTHSYS 177C, EARTHSYS 149, EARTHSYS 135, or another designated WIM course in a related department- must be approved by an advisor. Your WIM course may not also count towards your track or electives, if counted as a WIM.

(These courses must be taken for a letter grade: EARTHSYS 10, 111, 112, 210 A/B/C, WIM)

Track

A total of seven courses are required from the Land Systems focus areas. Concentrating courses in a single focus area below will allow students to deepen their understanding of the chosen system. For breadth considerations, students are required to take a minimum of one course from each focus area. In addition, two electives are required for this track. All track courses and electives must be taken for a letter grade (nine courses total).

Land Ecosystems

• BIO 144/HUMBIO 112: Conservation Biology: A Latin American Perspective
• EARTHSYS 128: Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems
• EARTHSYS 155: Science of Soils
• ESS 256: Soil and Water Chemistry
• EARTHSYS 180: Principles and Practices of Sustainable Agriculture
• OSPSANTG 58: Living Chile: A Land of Extremes

Water

• CEE 101B: Mechanics of Fluid (Prerequisite for CEE 166A)
• CEE 166A: Watersheds and Wetlands (prerequisite for 166B)
• CEE 166B: Floods and Droughts, Dams and Aqueducts
• CEE 177: Aquatic Chemistry and Biology
• EARTHSYS 104: The Water Course
• GEOPHYS 190: Near-Surface Geophysics
• GS 130: Soil Physics and Hydrology

Land Use

• ANTHRO 166: Political Ecology of Tropical Land Use: Conservation, Natural Resource Extraction, and Agribusiness
• ECON 106: World Food Economy
• EARTHSYS 181: Urban Agriculture in the Developing World (offered occasionally)
• EARTHSYS 185: Feeding Nine Billion
• ESS 270: Analyzing Land Use in a Globalized World 
• CEE 124: Sustainable Development Studio (must be taken for at least 3 units)
• CEE 176A: Energy Efficient Buildings
• URBANST 110: Utopia and Reality: Introduction to Urban Studies
• URBANST 113: Introduction to Urban Design: Contemporary Urban Design in Theory and Practice
• URBANST 163: Land Use Control
• URBANST 164: Sustainable Cities 
• URBANST 171: Urban Design Studio

Methods

• EARTHSYS 144: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science (GIS)
• EARTHSYS 142: Remote Sensing of Land
• EARTHSYS 211: Fundamentals of Modeling
• HISTORY 401A: Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems

Electives

TWO additional courses at the 100-level or above are required. Electives allow students to personalize their Earth Systems curriculum by pursuing higher-level courses offered in their focus area, or by incorporating new academic perspectives. Each must be a minimum of 3 units.

Track Updated 7/2017