East Carolina University

Transfer Guide

East Carolina University
Multidisciplinary Studies, BS

Transfer Guide for Associate in Arts

2024-2025

Concentration(s): Environmental Studies Structured Concentration
Delivery Method: On-Campus

Program Admission Notes:

To apply to ECU as a transfer student:

  • Complete, or have in progress, a minimum of 24 transferable college-level courses
  • Have a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA for all college-level coursework attempted

To be accepted into the program, students must have completed 30 s.h. with a minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA.

Students should work with an advisor to develop a program of study to ensure that they complete any necessary prerequisite requirements for upper-level courses. Additional courses beyond those listed may be approved by the program director if they contribute significantly to the student’s knowledge and skills regarding environmental studies.

Contact:

Transfer Admissions
transfer@ecu.edu

Revised: May, 2024

College Level Foreign Language Requirements:

There is no foreign language requirement for this major. 

Major-Specific Course Recommendations:

Students are encouraged to build the Community College course recommendations below into the associate degree to best prepare for the intended major.

Recommended CC Course Credit
Hours		 University Equivalent Associate Degree
Requirement Fulfilled		 University Requirement Fulfilled
ENG 111: Writing and Inquiry 3 ENGL 1100: Foundations of College Writing English Composition Required Course
ENG 112: Writing/Research in the Disc 3 ENGL 2201: Writing About the Disciplines English Composition Required Course
MAT 171: Precalculus Algebra 4 MATH 1065: College Algebra & MATH 1XXX: Math for Liberal Arts UGETC Math Required Course
HEA 110: Personal Health/Wellness 3 HLTH 1000: Health in Modern Society & KINE 1000: Lifetime Phys Act and Fit Lab Elective/Pre-Major Courses Required Course
ECO 251: Prin of Microeconomics 3 ECON 2113: Principles of Microeconomics UGETC Social/Behavioral Sciences Suggested Course
SOC 210: Introduction to Sociology 3 SOCI 2110: Introduction to Sociology UGETC Social/Behavioral Sciences Suggested Course
GEL 111: Geology 4 GEOL 1500: Dynamic Earth & GEOL 1501: Dynamic Earth Laboratory UGETC Natural Sciences Suggested Course
BIO 140 & BIO 140A: Environmental Biology 4 BIOL 1060: Environmental Biology & BIOL 1061: Environmental Biology Lab Additional General Education Courses Suggested Course
MAT 152: Statistical Methods I 4 MATH 2228: Elementary Statistical Mthds I Additional General Education Courses Suggested Course
GEL 230: Environmental Geology 4 GEOL 1700: Environmental Geology Elective/Pre-Major Courses Suggested Course

Remaining Associate Degree Requirements:

In addition to major-specific course recommendations above, students should work with a community college advisor to select additional community college courses to fulfill the remaining associate degree requirements identified below.

Recommended CC Course Credit
Hours		 University Equivalent Associate Degree
Requirement Fulfilled		 University Requirement Fulfilled
Student Choice/No Preference (Approved Course Options) 9 University Equivalencies UGETC Humanities/Fine Arts General Education
Student Choice/No Preference (Approved Course Options) 3 University Equivalencies UGETC Social/Behavioral Sciences General Education
Student Choice/No Preference (Approved Course Options) 6 University Equivalencies Additional General Education Courses General Education
ACA 122: College Transfer Success 1 COAD 1XXX: Univ Studies for Early College Academic Transition Elective
Student Choice/No Preference (Approved Course Options) 7 University Equivalencies Elective/Pre-Major Courses Elective

Additional Information From East Carolina University:

All baccalaureate degrees must include courses in Domestic Diversity (1 DD course), Global Diversity (1 GD course), and Writing Intensive (4 WI courses).

Completion of an AA or AS waives the General Education requirements at ECU with the exception of

  • the Writing Intensive requirement
  • Domestic and Global Diversity requirements
  • Health-Promotion and Health-Related Physical Activity requirements
  • any foreign language requirement
  • any Cognate, prerequisite, or major specific course requirement

Notes:

  • ENG 111 and 112 satisfy 2 of the 4 WI courses;
    • The Writing Across the Curriculum committee does not recommend taking more than 2 WI courses before transferring, so you don't need worry about the rest of the requirement until at ECU.
  • HIS 111, 112, 131, & 132 taken at a NCCCS after Fall 2018 count as humanities credits at ECU.
  • ECU does not have a transfer credit limit. However, keep in mind to earn a bachelor's degree at ECU, you must
    • complete 50% of your courses at a senior institution
      • approximately 60 semester hours
    • complete 25% of total credit hours needed for degree at ECU
      • approximately 30 semester hours
    • complete 50% of the total hours required in the major at ECU
      • approximately 30 semester hours

Most majors at ECU require 120 semester hours; additional electives or credits may be needed to complete this major.

New updates of ECU's Undergraduate Catalog are published in July each year. For the most up to date information, visit https://registrar.ecu.edu.

For more transfer information, visit ECU’s Transfer Hub, https://transfer.ecu.edu.

Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary academic field that studies the relationship between humans and their environment. The environmental studies structured concentration offers courses that integrate social and scientific understandings of environmental issues, practical responses to environmental problems, and the narratives and values that shape interactions with nature and the natural world. The curriculum includes courses from a range of disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities that are focused on environmental topics. Majors develop research, technical, and critical thinking skills and apply their knowledge and skills to faculty-mentored research experience opportunities and thesis projects or internships. Study abroad coursework may also be used to satisfy requirements for the major but must be approved by the program director.

Remaining Bachelor’s Degree Requirements at University:

University Course Credit
Hours		 University Course Notes
Research and Seminar Courses 6

With approval from faculty mentor and program director, choose a minimum of 6 hours from: 

  • ANTH 4503 - Independent Study
  • ANTH 4550 - Anthropology Honors
  • ANTH 4551 - Anthropology Honors
  • ANTH 4990 - Internship in Applied Anthropology
  • BIOL 3550 - Research in Biology with Writing
  • BIOL 4991 - Internship
  • BIOL 4995 - Biology Honors Thesis
  • GEOG 4803 - Geographic Internship
  • GEOL 4550 - Honors Thesis
  • GEOL 4551 - Honors Thesis
  • GEOL 4601 - Directed Studies in Geology
  • TEXT 4999 - Thesis in Transformative Texts and Ideas
  • ICS 3050 - Independent Study in Coastal Studies
  • ICS 4050 - Internship in Coastal Studies
Primary and Secondary Focus 21

Choose one primary focus and one secondary area of focus from the following:

  • Earth and the Environment
  • Environment and Society 

 
Earth and the Environment: 9-12

For Primary area of focus, choose 12 hours. For secondary area of focus, choose 9 hours. 

  • ATMO 3230 - Global Climates
  • ATMO 4510 - Meteorological Instruments and Observations
  • ATMO 4530 - Micrometeorology
  • ATMO 4590 - Tropical Meteorology
  • BIOL 3150 - Plant Biology
  • BIOL 3230 - Field Botany
  • BIOL 3231 - Field Botany Laboratory
  • BIOL 3660 - Introduction to Marine Biology
  • BIOL 3661 - Introduction to Marine Biology Laboratory
  • BIOL 3740 - Animal Behavior
  • BIOL 3741 - Animal Behavior Laboratory
  • BIOL 4200 - Population and Community Ecology
  • BIOL 4201 - Population and Community Ecology Laboratory
  • BIOL 4250 - Biological Oceanography
  • BIOL 4300 - Ecosystem Ecology
  • BIOL 4301 - Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory
  • BIOL 4320 - Ecological Responses to Global Climate Change
  • BIOL 4560 - Microbial Ecology
  • BIOL 4740 - Behavioral Ecology
  • BIOL 4741 - Behavioral Ecology Laboratory
  • BIOL 4770 - Ornithology
  • BIOL 4771 - Ornithology Laboratory
  • BIOL 5270 - Marine Community Ecology
  • BIOL 5550 - Ichthyology
  • BIOL 5551 - Ichthyology Laboratory
  • GEOG 2250 - Earth Surface Systems
  • GEOG 3420 - Remote Sensing of the Environment I
  • GEOG 3430 - Geographic Information Systems I
  • GEOG 3450 - Introduction to the Global Positioning System
  • GEOG 3460 - GIS Applications Programming
  • GEOG 4210 - Fluvial and Hydrological Processes
  • GEOG 4440 - Coastal Applications of GIS
  • GEOG 4460 - Digital Terrain Analysis
  • GEOL 3070 - Earth Materials and Resources
  • GEOL 3071 - Earth Materials and Resources Laboratory
  • GEOL 3209 - Environmental Forensics
  • GEOL 3210 - Environmental Forensics Laboratory
  • GEOL 3250 - Introduction to Geomorphology
  • GEOL 3251 - Introduction to Geomorphology Laboratory
  • GEOL 3500 - Hydrogeology and the Environment
  • GEOL 3501 - Hydrogeology and the Environment Laboratory
  • GEOL 3700 - Advanced Oceanography
  • GEOL 3800 - Earth’s Climate: A Geological Perspective
  • GEOL 4010 - Sedimentology
  • GEOL 4011 - Sedimentology Laboratory
  • GEOL 5150 - The Geologic Component of Environmental Science
  • GEOL 5300 - Geology of Coastal Processes and Environments
  • GEOL 5350 - Marine Geology
  • GEOL 5450 - Introduction to Aqueous Geochemistry
  • GEOL 5451 - Aqueous Geochemistry Laboratory
  • GEOL 5710 - Ground Water Hydrology
  • GEOL 5711 - Ground Water Hydrology Laboratory
  • ICS 4001 - Designing Adaptation Strategies for Coastal Hazards
Environment and Society: 9-12

For Primary area of focus, choose 12 hours. For secondary area of focus, choose 9 hours.

  • ANTH 3011 - Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways
  • ANTH 3012 - Lifeways of Pastoral Nomads
  • ANTH 3028 - Human Adaptation and Variation
  • ECON 3855 - Environmental Economics
  • ECON 4850 - Resource Economics
  • ENGL 3660 - Literature and Film of Environmental Crisis
  • ENGL 4370 - Literature and Environment
  • GEOG 3010 - Social Justice and Sustainability
  • GEOG 4270 - Water Resources Management and Planning
  • GEOG 4320 - Gender, Environment, and Development
  • GEOG 4340 - GIS for Health Studies
  • GEOG 4360 - Geographies of Global Climate and Environmental Change
  • TEXT 3001 - Transformative Texts and Ideas of Science
  • PLAN 4015 - Disaster Planning
  • PLAN 4055 - Coastal Area Planning and Management
  • PLAN 4305 - Ecological Landscape Planning
  • SOCI 3010 - Environmental Sociology
Methods or Techniques 3

Choose one course: 

  • AAAS 2500 - Theory and Methods in African and African American Studies
  • ANTH 3050 - Ethnographic Field Methods
  • BIOS 1500 - Introduction to Biostatistics
  • EHST 3003 - Environmental Epidemiology
  • ENGL 4000 - Introduction to Literary Theory
  • GEOG 2400 - Spatial Data Analysis
  • GEOG 2410 - Fundamentals of GIS
  • GEOG 4140 - Research Methods in Human Geography
  • GEOL 2000 - Quantitative Methods in the Geological Sciences
  • GEOL 2600 - Analysis Techniques and Methods of Coastal Ocean Research
  • GEOL 3200 - Introduction to Field Methods
  • GEOL 3201 - Introduction to Field Methods Laboratory
  • MATH 2228 - Elementary Statistical Methods I
  • PLAN 3021 - Introduction to Planning Techniques
  • POLS 3031 - Research Design for Political Science
  • SOCI 3213 - Methods of Research
  • SOCI 3215 - Qualitative Research Methods
Natural Sciences 6

Choose two courses with different prefixes from the following:

  • ATMO 1300 - Weather and Climate
  • ATMO 2510 - Physical Meteorology and Thermodynamics
  • BIOL 1010 - Biodiversity of Coastal North Carolina
  • BIOL 1060 - Environmental Biology
  • BIOL 1061 - Environmental Biology Laboratory
  • BIOL 1200 - Principles of Biology II
  • BIOL 1201 - Principles of Biology Laboratory II
  • BIOL 2250 - Ecology
  • BIOL 2251 - Ecology Laboratory
  • CHEM 1160 - General Chemistry II
  • CHEM 1161 - General Chemistry Laboratory II
  • EHST 2110 - Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences
  • GEOG 1250 - Water in the Environment
  • GEOG 1251 - Water in the Environment Laboratory
  • GEOG 2250 - Earth Surface Systems
  • GEOL 1400 - Bays and Beaches Around the World: Geological Form and Function
  • GEOL 1500 - Dynamic Earth
  • GEOL 1501 - Dynamic Earth Laboratory
  • GEOL 1550 - Oceanography
  • GEOL 1551 - Oceanography Laboratory
  • GEOL 1600 - Earth and Life Through Time
  • GEOL 1700 - Environmental Geology
  • GEOL 2300 - Current Topics in Geoscience
Social Sciences and Humanities 6

Choose 6 hours from: 

  • ANTH 2005 - Environmental Anthropology
  • ECON 2113 - Principles of Microeconomics
  • ENGL 2490 - Introduction to Environmental Humanities
  • GEOG 1000 - People, Places, and Environments
  • GEOG 2300 - Environment and Society
  • GEOG 2350 - Climate Change: Science and Society
  • PHIL 2276 - Environmental Ethics
  • PLAN 1900 - Sustainable Cities
  • RELI 2345 - Religion and the Environment
  • SOCI 2110 - Introduction to Sociology
Minor or Approved Structured Electives 18

Choose upon consultation with your advisor.