THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

                         FACULTY SENATE 


                             Senate Document Number    0296F 
                             Date of Senate Approval      10/10/96


 
Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

   APC Document 2: Earth Science Track in Environmental Studies


Effective Date: as soon as possible

Add material underlined in reference to the catalog under
Environmental Studies:

     page 119, paragraph 1:

       "The B.S. in Environmental Studies Program prepares
       students for graduate school or employment in
       environmental pollution control, resource management,
       ecology, earth science, and numerous other careers."
       
  page 119, paragraph 2:
  
  "The diverse fields of economics, psychology, biology,
       sociology, chemistry, earth science, public policy,
       physics and management are integral to the basic
       understanding and resolution of the complex nature of
       many environmental problems facing modern society."
       
  page 119, paragraph 3:
  
  "The UNCA program offers a chance to focus advanced study
       in one of four specialty tracks: Pollution Control;
       Ecology and Environmental Biology; Natural Resource
       Management; and Earth Science."
       
  page 120, following section entitled "Track in Natural
  Resource Management":
  
  "Track in Earth Science
       
       26 hours, distributed as follows: ENVR 105, 320, 385; any
       three from ENVR 338, 354, 360, 382, 384, 450; and either
       PHYS 131 or CHEM 211 & CHEM 231."
       
  
  beginning on page 121, each description placed in consecutive
  order of course number among other descriptions:
  
320  Mineralogy & Petrology (4)
          Fundamental crystallography and crystal chemistry,
                 and systematic study of minerals; igneous,
                 metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, including 
                 classification, textures, formation, and graphical
                 representation.    Prerequisites: CHEM 132, ENVR
                 105.  Course offered every odd year spring semester.
     
       
     360  Environmental Restoration (3)
          The planning, implementation, and assessment of
                 ecosystem restoration with an emphasis on aquatic
                 habitats.  Topics include goals, objectives and
                 design of  restoration projects and selecting the
                 criteria used to assess the structural and
                 functional attributes of a restored ecosystem. 
                 Prerequisite: ENVR 130.  Course offered every odd
                 spring semester.
     
       
     450  Structural Geology (4)
          Deformation of rocks, including kinematic and
                 dynamic analysis, primary structures, fold and fault
                 classifications, stereographic projections, geologic
                 maps, and working with three-dimensional data. 
                 Prerequisite: ENVR 105.  Course offered every third
                 year fall semester.
       
  
  Impact Statement:  Intro to Environmental Science will not be
  taught as frequently as in the past by JWM or KKM but those
  sections will be taken over by the new faculty member in fall
  1996.  Waste Management (ENVR 354) may be taught by the new
  faculty member also.  In some scenarios, Physical Geology
  (ENVR 105) may be taught each year instead of each semester. 
  During the past six years, Physical Geology was taught every
  semester, except for Spring 1993.
   
  Rationale: 
  
  The goal of this track is to graduate environmental scientists
  with a specialty in earth science, who would be ready to meet
  challenges in industry and/or government, or in graduate
  school in geology and/or environmental science.  A large and
  rapidly growing need for additional scientists and technical
  personnel in our society will become particularly acute in
  earth sciences, because as stewards of the earth, we are
  discovering the effects of our past abuses of the environment
  (ground water pollution, for example), and because as a
  country, we are not successfully educating our students in
  science.  To address these needs, the new earth science track
  will combine the environmental studies core with fundamental
  geology and soils courses to produce a degree track in a
  rapidly growing area of environmental science.