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CS92PROD
Environmental Geochemistry

E&ES 250
Fall 2025
Section: 01  
This course may be repeated for credit.
Crosslisting: ENVS 280
Course Cluster and Certificates: Integrated Design, Engineering & Applied Science Minor

This course is a qualitative and quantitative treatment of chemical processes in natural systems such as lakes, rivers, groundwater, oceans, and the atmosphere. General topics include equilibrium thermodynamics, acid-base equilibria, the carbonic acid system, oxidation-reduction reactions in nature, and isotope geochemistry. The associated lab course (E&ES 251) must be taken concurrently if offered. The lab course will be a service-learning course in which students work with a community organization to solve an environmental problem or a semester-long research project. There are no official prerequisite classes, but students should be comfortable with chemical concepts or should have taken introductory college chemistry or advanced high school chemistry courses.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: NSM E&ES
Course Format: LectureGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (Biology)(Earth and Environmental Sciences)(Environmental Studies Minor)(Environmental Studies)(Integrated Design, Engineering, Arts & Society Minor)(Science and Technology Studies)
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available

Last Updated on MAR-31-2025
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